Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Missouri-Columbia
Professor Davis joined the law faculty in 1970. While in law school he served as managing editor of the Wisconsin Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. In 1963 he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Australian National University, studying Australian irrigation law, the topic of his S.J.D. thesis. In 1964, he was Graduate Fellow at the University of Wisconsin School of Law. He practiced law in Washington, D.C. from 1965-66, with the firm of Ely and Duncan, and with the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a research attorney in Madison, Wisconsin, from 1966-70. From 1973-81, he was a member of the City of Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission, and since 1986 has been a member of its Railroad Advisory Board. During the winter term of 1982, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Auckland School of Law in New Zealand. During May 1990, he lectured in China on American environmental law, at Wuhan University, Wuhan, and at the North-West Institute of Political Science and Law, Xian. In summer 1992, he lectured at several locations in Australia and New Zealand on American coal log pipeline law and several water rights and environmental law topics. In 1996, he taught in the law school’s London program. He is the author of numerous articles and books in the fields of water use rights and management, and water pollution law. He has received several major water law research grants; and in the 1990’s he worked on the legal aspects of coal log pipelines with the MU Capsule Pipeline Research Center. He retired in 2003 and since has been teaching part-time. The courses he teaches include Mining, Oil & Gas Law, Environmental Law, Transportation Law, Copyright Law, Land Use Controls, Water Rights Law, Railroad Law, Seminar on Problems of Environmental Control, Estates & Trusts, and Intellectual Property. He received his B.A degree from Haverford College, and his LL.B and S.J.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin.

Director, Water Resources Center, Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Ms. Hoggatt serves as the director of the Department’s Water Resources Center. She has been with the Department since 2008, previously working in the Director’s Office and for the Division of Environmental Quality’s Water Protection Program. A native of Southwest Missouri, she grew up enjoying plentiful fishing, hiking and water recreation activities around places such as Roaring River State Park and Table Rock Lake. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Missouri Southern State University and a Master of Environmental Science and Management degree from University of California-Santa Barbara.

Principal at RA Walker & Associates LLC in Jefferson City, MO
Mr. Walker has a private legal practice focusing on permitting, compliance, and enforcement. He also serves at the executive director of REGFORM, a nonprofit association in Missouri focused on environmental regulatory issues. Mr. Walker is also the organizer of the Midwest Environmental Compliance Conference. Previously, he served as an adjunct instructor teaching, “Introduction to Environmental Law,” at St. Louis University. Prior to starting his firm he practiced as an environmental attorney at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis for 13 years. He received his J.D. degree from University of Missouri at Kansas City Law School and his LL.M degree in Environmental Law from Lewis & Clark School of Law in Portland, Oregon.