The 2020 Anne J. Schneider Lecture, which encourages professional and personal commitment to water law and policy and the conservation of our special landscapes, will feature two distinguished speakers: Jennifer Harder, an associate professor at the McGeorge School of Law, and Brian Gray, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California’s Water Policy Center and professor emeritus at UC Hastings College of the Law.

This year’s lecture topic is focused on California’s Reasonable Use Doctrine, the cornerstone of the state’s complex water rights laws that requires all water be put to beneficial use, preventing waste or unreasonable use or unreasonable method of use. The event is scheduled for April 1 at the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento. Check in begins at 3:30 p.m. and the lecture begins at 4 p.m. There also will be a reception following the lecture beginning at approximately 5:30 p.m.

To attend the event, please RSVP to the organizers by March 27 via Eventbrite.

This annual lecture is named in honor of Anne J. Schneider, acknowledged as one of the first women to become well-known and well-respected in the field of California and Western water law.

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