Professor Douglas Grant Receives Clyde O. Martz Teaching Award

The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (RMMLF) awarded Boyd School of Law Emeritus Professor Douglas Grant the 2010 Clyde O. Martz Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award was presented on July 22, 2010 at the RMMLF's 56th Annual Institute in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

The RMMLF is an association of natural resources lawyers based in Westminster, Colo. The organization funds faculty and student work in natural resources law.

The award is given annually in honor of Clyde O. Martz, who was a professor at Colorado Law School and founded the RMMLF. He is widely regarded as the father of modern natural resources law, shaping the entire field and writing the first casebook on the subject. He died in May at the age of 89.

Professor Grant worked with Martz at Davis, Graham and Stubbs in Denver from 1967-68 and was one of the many inspired to work in the field through working with Martz. “The Martz teaching award has special meaning for me because of his strong influence on my career. I have always admired his work ethic and his encyclopedic knowledge of the law,” Grant said.

Professor Grant has been teaching law since 1968 and has been employed with the Boyd School of Law since 1999. He taught Property, Real Estate Finance, and Water Law during his tenure at UNLV. He was named Emeritus Professor after retiring in July of 2010.

Professor Grant was a member of the Board of Trustees for the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation's from 1968-98 (representing the University of Idaho) and from 2004-10. He also has been a reporter for the RMMLF on developments in Nevada water law for its Water Law Newsletter, which publishes three issues per year. He served as the program chair for the water section of the RMMLF's 36th and 46th Annual Institute, and he presented papers at the 29th Institute, the 54th Institute and the first Special Institute.