Jack Tuholske is a visiting professor
who will teach Constitutional
Law and Environmental
Litigation beginning the
fall of 2010. He is a co-advisor to the Public
Land & Resources Law Review.
Since graduating from The University
of Montana School of Law with honors in 1985, Tuholske
has been in private practice in Missoula, Montana,
with an emphasis on public interest environmental litigation
in state and federal court in Montana and the West. He
has been lead counsel for over 45 published decisions,
including over a dozen successful cases at the Montana
Supreme Court. These cases
span environmental, land use, water law, constitutional
law and natural resource management. In recognition
of his work on behalf of public interest groups, Tuholske
was awarded the William O. Douglas Award by the Sierra
Club in 2002 and the Kerry Rydberg Award in 2010 by
the University of Oregon Public Interest Environmental
Law Conference.
More recently, Tuholske has combined teaching with
his practice. He has
taught a variety of courses and lectured frequently
at The University of Montana for the past 15 years.
Recently, he was a Visiting Professor at Vermont Law
School, teaching water resources, constitutional law,
environmental law and a seminar on constitutions and
the environment. In
the spring of 2009 Tuholske taught two courses at the
Law Faculty University of Ljubljana in Slovenia as
a Fulbright Scholar, one on the law of climate change
and the other a comparative class on EU/US environmental
law and policy. Tuholske
believes the combination of teaching, writing and litigating
provides a wonderful opportunity to learn with his
students and colleagues, and translate that knowledge
into courtroom advocacy.
Tuholske lives
in Missoula, Montana, with his wife Lilly, and their
three boys (now young men), Oliver, Benjamin and Cascade. He
and his family enjoy the good tidings of the
Northern Rockies: rock climbing, back country skiing,
gardening and community activities.
PUBLICATIONS
Going with the Flow: The Montana Court's Conservative Approach to Constitutional Interpretation, 72 Mont. L. Rev. 237 (2011).
Hot Water, Dry Streams: A Tale of Two Trout, 34 Vt. L. Rev. 927 (2010).
Trusting the Public Trust: Application of the Public Trust Doctrine to Groundwater Resources, 9 Vt. L. Rev. 189 (2008).
The Legislatoture Shall Make No Law... Abridging Montanans' Constitutional Rights to a Clean and Healthful Environment, 15 Southeastern Envtl. L.J. 311 (2007).
A Litigator's Perspective: The Montana TMDL Litigation, 22 Pub. Land & Resources L. Rev. 3 (2001).
The National Forest Management Act: Judicial Interpretation of a Substantive Environmental Statute, 17 Pub. Land L. Rev. 33 (1994). | 
