I provide solutions by carefully researching and analyzing issues.
Andy is an experienced litigator with a focus on natural resources, administrative law, and appellate law. He collaborates with his colleagues and clients to understand complex problems and to research effective solutions.
Andy has successfully litigated cases throughout Alaska on behalf of Alaska Native Corporations and Alaska Tribes, including cases involving subsistence hunting and fishing rights. He currently represents several Alaska Native entities in lawsuits against the State of Alaska seeking to protect customary and traditional uses of fish and game.
Before joining Landye Bennett Blumstein, Andy was a law clerk for the Alaska Supreme Court and worked as policy fellow in the U.S. Senate, focusing on natural resource issues in the West. He has a master’s degree in environmental policy from Oxford University and is a 2007 Harry S. Truman Scholar from Montana.
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Admitted to Practice
- Alaska
- Montana
- U.S. District Court, District of Alaska
- United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Education
- The University of Montana, B.A., 2008
- University of Oxford, M.Sc., 2009
- Lewis & Clark Law School, J.D., 2013
Memberships & Recognition
- Alaska State Bar and Anchorage Bar Association
- Montana State Bar
- Harry S. Truman Scholar, 2007
- Associate Editor, Environmental Law, 2012-13; member, Ninth Circuit Review, 2011-12
- O’Rourke Award, 2013, for best original research in environmental and natural resources law
- Environmental Advocate of the Year Competition, 2013 (argued a moot court case before Chief Justice John Roberts)
- Alaska Legal Elite
Resources Authored
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Publications
Wild Land Policy in the Twenty-first Century: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been, 25 Colo. Nat. Resources, Energy, & Envtl. L. Rev. 1 (2014) (with Michael C. Blumm)
Dam Removal in the Pacific Northwest: Lessons for the Nation, 42 Envtl. L. 1043 (2012) (with Michael C. Blumm)
Grizzly Bear Recovery, Whitebark Pine, and Adequate Regulatory Mechanisms Under the Endangered Species Act, 42 Envtl. L. 943 (2012)
