Richard Alper

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Mr. Alper earned his law degree with a concentration in real estate and state and local government from the Georgetown University Law Center. He did post-graduate work in environmental law at the George Washington University Law School and litigated several matters relating to the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act in federal trial and appellate courts.   

Since 1993, Mr Alper  has designed and taught more than 1,500 hours of conflict resolution, arbitration, negotiation, commercial real estate, land use, natural resources and environmental law courses. He currently serves on the facilitator roster of the Udall Foundation’s McCain National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution in Tucson, AZ.

Mr. Alper has served as adjunct faculty in the Haub School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Wyoming, and  the Carey School of Business of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.. He has previously taught at the University of Maryland Law School and the College of Southern Maryland’s Center for Environmental Training. He has guest lectured at Colorado State University, Warner College of Natural Resources, and its School of Agriculture and Resource Economics, the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University (land use), and the George Washington University Law School (Clean Water Act)..

He is past president of the Big Thompson Watershed Coalition and is past chair of the Environmental Science Advisory Board of Larimer County. Mr. Alper currently serves on the, Advisory Board of the Center for Collaborative Conservation at Colorado State University and also teaches at the CSU Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. He is a past, elected member of the (i) Board of Trustees of Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. (ii) Leadership Council of the Environment and Public Policy Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution and is a member of the Environment and Natural Resources Section of the American Bar Association.