Water Law

Dave Aiken is a professor with the Department of Agricultural Economics. His main areas of expertise are in the fields of water law and policy, energy law, environmental law and global warming. He also works with the Nebraska extension office in the areas of water law and agricultural law.

Anthony Schutz is a 2003 graduate of the College of Law and joined the faculty in 2006. During law school, he worked for Cline, Williams, Wright, Johnson and Oldfather in Lincoln, Nebraska, and was the editor-in-chief of the Nebraska Law Review. After law school, Schutz clerked for 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge C. Arlen Beam. He has taught legal research and writing and was a visiting lecturer in the Lawyering Program at the Cornell Law School. The product of a farm family in Elwood, Nebraska, Schutz's research interests include the often-intertwined subjects of agricultural law, environmental and natural resources law and state and local government. He has served as the chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Agricultural Law, is active in the American Agricultural Law Association, and is a frequent lecturer on agricultural and water law issues. (Updated November 2024.)