McAllister Law Office, P.C.

"Determined Advocacy for Honest People"

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Criminal Sentencing Reform in Colorado, The Colorado Lawyer, March 2007, Vol. 36, No. 3, Page 23.

Book Review: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, ENVIRONMENT AND THE LAW, UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy (Fall 2005).

Presenter, Center for the American West workshop on cleanup of abandoned mines, (October 2004).

Unnecessarily Hesitant Good Samaritans: Conducting Voluntary Cleanups of Inactive and Abandoned Mines Without Incurring Liability, 33 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 10245 (April 2003), republished by Rocky Mtn. Mineral Law Foundation at 40 PUBLIC LAND AND RESOURCE LAW DIGEST 261 (2003).

The Confluence of a River and a Community: An Experiment with Community-Based Watershed Management in Southwestern Colorado, 3 U. DENVER WATER L. REV. 287 (Spring 2000) (discussing the work of the Animas River Stakeholders Group to remediate abandoned mines).

Community-based Conservation: Restructuring Institutions to Involve Local Communities in a Meaningful Way. 10 COLO. J. INTNTL. ENVTL. L. & POL. 195 (1999); republished in INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, ENVIRONMENT AND THE LAW, Lawrence Watters ed., Carolina Academic Press (2004).

Convention on Public Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making, and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters. COLO. J. INT’L. ENVTL. L. & POL’Y 1998 Y.B. 187 (1999).

Post-War Democracy in Guatemala and the URNG, National Lawyers Guild Practitioner (Vol. 55, No. 2, Spring 1998).

Presentations re: Criminal Justice Reform - Testimony to Denver Public Safety Review Commission on the illegal police spy files kept on peaceful protesters; advised local activists on a civil rights suit against the Denver Police Department; panelist at 2001 SW Regional NLG Conference in Albuquerque, NM and 2001 National NLG Conference in Tuscon, AZ on drug policy issues.

Presentations re: Alternatives to War under International Law to Respond to Terrorism - speech to 3,000 anti-war marchers September 29, 2001 in Denver, CO; pro bono criminal defense representation of anti-war protesters arrested at various rallies; panelist at two Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center Town Hall Meetings in Boulder discussing international law; and panelist on international law at SW Regional NLG Conference in Taos, NM.

Presentations re: Erosion of Civil Liberties under the USA-Patriot Act - Article Published in NLG Guild Notes, Spy Files in Denver (Fall 2002); panelist at two Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center workshops in Boulder; interviewed on KGNU 88.5 FM in Boulder and KBCU 1190 AM in Boulder; panelist at Beyond Chicanismo: Political Activism Conference at Metro State College in Denver, spring 2001; speech on Patriot Act to the University of Colorado Law School NLG Chapter, October 2002; and workshop presentation entitled Legal Consequences of Arrest at Protests, Boulder Co-Op Grocery, January 2003.