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GWC is excited to welcome two new Senior Fellows, Sam Kalen and Bill Hedden.Ìý

Sam Kalen is the inaugural IU McKinney Family Chair in Environmental Law at Indiana University McKinney School of Law. From 2009 to 2024 he was at the University of Wyoming College of Law and most recently served at Wyoming as the William T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law and Associate Dean. Professor Kalen’s teaching and scholarly interests focus on natural resources and public lands, environmental law, energy law, Federal Indian law, and administrative law. White at the Wyoming College of Law, he founded and then served as the co-director of the Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies (later the Gina Guy Center for Land & Water).Ìý He is a co-author of a casebook on natural resources law and policy, a book on the Endangered Species Act, as well as a 2018 Cambridge University Press book chronicling the history of energy law and policy, entitled Energy Follies: Missteps, Fiascos, and Success of America’s Energy Policy; he also has authored numerous law review articles and book chapters. Before teaching, Professor Kalen practiced in Washington, D.C. for over 20 years, both in the private and public sectors. His private practice work focused principally on environment, energy, Native American, as well as public lands and natural resources law; and he worked primarily on public lands and natural resource matters when serving in the Solicitor’s Office at the Department of the Interior during the Clinton Administration. Immediately after law school, Professor Kalen began his career as a law clerk for Justice Warren D. Welliver of the Missouri Supreme Court. He earned his J.D. at Washington University School of Law, in St. Louis, MO, and his B.A. at Clark University, in Worcester, MA.ÌýÌý