Megan J Houdeshel
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Megan Houdeshel practices in the area of Environmental and Natural Resources Law.
Ms. Houdeshel earned her Juris Doctor in 2009, from the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law with high honors, where she served as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Land Resources and Environmental Law and received the Wallace Stegner Center Certificate in Natural Resources & Environmental Law. As a law student Ms. Houdeshel was awarded the Robert Swenson Fellowship in Natural Resources Law, and she was a recipient of a Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Scholarship. Ms Houdeshel was also a member of the 2009 PACE Moot Court Team, which reached the national finals. Ms. Houdeshel received her undergraduate degrees at the University of Utah where she earned dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Anthropology, magna cum laude, in 2002.
Prior to joining Parr Brown, Ms. Houdeshel served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Justice Jill N. Parrish of the Utah State Supreme Court.
Publications and Presentations:
- "Can Green Stormwater Infrastructure Coexist in the Western Legal Landscape of Prior Appropriation Law?" - World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, May 25, 2011.
- The Energy Policy Act and its Categorical Exclusions: What Happened to the Extraordinary Circumstances Exception? 29 J. Land, Resources, & Envtl. L. 219
- Land Trust Alliance National Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2008, “Condemnation of Conservation Easements”
- Land of Trust Alliance National Conference, Park City, UT, May 2008, “Condemnation of Conservation Easements”
- Utah State Bar Association, Environmental Law Section Continuing Legal Education, April 2008, “In Perpetuity: The Future of Conservation Easements”
