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JASON AAMODT

JASON AAMODT

Department of Management
Assistant Professor of Practice, Spears School of Business

16817 N. WINSLOW DRIVE
HULBERT, OK 74441
Phone: 918-706-6082

jason.aamodt@okstate.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Jason B. Aamodt, Esq. is a practicing attorney with 20 years of experience working with Indian Tribes and individuals. My career is today comprised of four parts: Teaching, litigating Indian Trust and Environmental cases, starting a small brewery, and conducting social research concerning Justice and Sustainable Development. I am licensed to practice in all Oklahoma courts, the Northern, Western and Eastern Federal Districts of Oklahoma, the Western and Eastern Districts of Arkansas, the United States Federal Court of Claims, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

As a teacher, my classes have included Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Water Law, International Environmental Law, and Corporate and Sustainable Responsibility. With the coming years here at OSU, I am looking forward to teaching new courses relating to the Management and Graduate Environmental Programs, with a central theme focused on Sustainable Development.

As a lawyer I have and continue to represent Indian tribes and Individuals on a wide range of issues, from environmental contamination, natural resource protection, to land, financial trust and accounting matters. Among other accomplishments, I settled the fifth largest Indian Trust Accounting case, obtained a National Law Journal Top-25 jury verdict (2013), certified the first class action in Oklahoma based on an air dispersion model, and established a new cause of action against the United States for Indian Tribes.

I enjoy research and writing. My recent publications include: The Role of Conjunctive Management in Sustainable Development, in Delivering Energy Policy in the EU and US: A Multi-Disciplinary Reader (Edinburgh Univ. Press 2016); Using Appropriate Sustainable Energy Technologies (ASETS) to Promote Access to Energy for the Other Third, in International Energy Development, the Emerging Contours (Routledge 2015) (Invited to provide chapter); and Can the Chinese Biogas Experience Shed Light on the Future of Sustainable Energy Development?, 42 Denver J. Int'l Law & Pol. 427 (2014).

I am an aspiring homebrewer, and I am planning a nano-brewery in Norfork, Arkansas using locally harvested yeast, and regionally sourced grains. We are just getting started, and our goal is to always be tiny, but to always make great beer or other beer-like things that taste good!

I am an unreconstructed fisherman, hunter and hiker. If no one can find me, check the hunting seasons. If there is no hunting season, then check the water level on the Norfork tailwater. If its not low, I'm walking about somewhere my cell phone won't get reception.

Jason received his Bachelor degree in Chemistry/Environmental Science from State University of New York in Plattsburgh and his Juris Doctorate from The University of Tulsa College of Law.

He was the Assistant Dean for Online Legal Education, and teaches International Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law.

Education

  • JD, University of Tulsa College of Law, Natural Resource Management and Sustainability, 1996
  • BS, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Chemistry, 1993

Publications

  • Abubakarr S. Mansaray, Jason Aamodt, and Bashiru M. Koroma. (2018). "Water Pollution Laws in Sierra Leone--A Review with Examples from the UK and USA". Natural Resources. (9), 11, 28.
  • Jason Aamodt and Abu Manasary. (2017). "The Rights of Nature May Improve Water and Sanitation in Sierra Leone". Sierra Leone Journal of Biomedical Research. (9), 2,
  • Jason Aamodt and Lakshman Guruswamy. (2016). "Commentary, Model Law on Lighting for Developed Countries". Denver, CO: Denver Journal of International Law and Policy. (377),
  • Jason Aamodt. (2015). "The Role of Conjunctive Management in Sustainable Development, in Delivering Energy Policy in the EU and US: A Multi- Disciplinary Reader". Edinburgh Univ. Press: .
  • Jason Aamodt. (2015). "Using Appropriate Sustainable Energy Technologies (ASETS) to Promote Access to Energy for the Other Third, in International Energy Development, the Emerging Contours". Routledge: .
  • Jason Aamodt and Chen Wenqin. (2014). "Can the Chinese Biogas Experience Shed Light on the Future of Sustainable Energy Development?". Denver Journal of International Law and Policy. (42), 427.
  • Jason Aamodt, Krystina Phillips, and Rene Annesley. (2012). "Groundwater: A Comparative Analysis of the Regulation of Groundwater Encountered in Surface Mining". OKLAhoma Law Review. (64), 539-561.
  • Lakshman Guruswamy and Jason Aamodt. (2001). "Russian Nuclear Dumping: The Environmental Dimension, in Arms & the Environment: Preventing the Perils of Arms Control". Lakshman D. Guruswamy & Suzette R. Grillot, eds. Transnational Pubs..
  • Jason Aamodt. (2000). "Tar Creek, Tribal Environmental Jurisdiction and Natural Resource Restoration of Tribal Lands". Proceedings of The Oklahoma Sovereignty Symposium.

Presentations

  • Water Management Issues
    Water Law
    National Business Institute
    Online - November 30 2021
  • Key issues in the development of tribal rights of nature
    Tribal Rights of Nature
    Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
    Ponca City, OK - July 15 2018
  • Water Managment
    Water Law
    National Business Institute
    Online - November 30 2017

Academic, Military, and Professional Positions

  • Oklahoma State University, Assistant Professor of Practice, Spears School of Business, August 2018
  • Indian and Environmental Law Center, Private Practice, January 1 2000
  • The University of Tulsa, Adjunct, College of Law, 2009 - 2017
  • The University of Tulsa, College of Law, Assistant Dean for Online Legal Education, January 2013 - February 2016
  • University of Oklahoma, Instructor, 1999 - 1999
  • University of Tulsa College of Law, Research Fellow, The National Energy - Environment Law and Policy Institute, September 1996 - December 1999
  • The University of Tulsa College of Law, Instructor, 1997 - 1998

Courses Taught

  • MGMT 4033 (27 Semesters)
  • MGMT 4083 (20 Semesters)
  • MGMT 5033 (19 Semesters)
  • MGMT 5083 (14 Semesters)
  • MGMT 4073 (8 Semesters)
  • MGMT 5073 (1 Semester)
  • MGMT 4650 (1 Semester)

Non-Credit Instruction Taught

  • OMCTFOA, March 31 2023
  • National Business Institute, 2021 - 2021