Professor Emeritus of Law
University Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dale D. Goble pursued a J.D. in law at the University of Oregon after completing an A.B. in philosophy at Columbia College. He began his career in law with the honors program at the U.S. Department of the Interior. He remained at Interior for two years following the two-year honors stint during which time James Watt became Secretary of the Interior. Dale and his new boss did not see eye to eye on the law governing the conservation of species and public lands. Interior’s loss was the University of Idaho’s gain. Dale taught and mentored the students of the University of Idaho for thirty-six years prior to his retirement in 2017.
At the University of Idaho, Dale achieved the rank of University Distinguished Professor and the Margaret Wilson Schimke Distinguished Professor of Law. He was an adjunct faculty member of the Environmental Science, Bioregional Planning, Philosophy, and Water Resources Faculties. Externally he was also a Member Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform. At the College of Law, Dale’s quest to insert as many cases as possible with potatoes into the Torts curriculum led to the student-created label of “Tater Torts.” Dale taught Tater Torts to over fifteen hundred students from 1982 to 2017 and was truly instrumental in shaping torts law in Idaho.
While Tater Torts remained an internal favorite at the College of Law, Dale became known externally and internally for his teaching and scholarship in Public Land Law and Wildlife Law. In the words of one of his wildlife law casebook collaborators, Professor Eric Freyfogle, “Dale is the father of Wildlife Law.” The casebook brought together state law governing game management, conservation and take with federal and international law focused on species protection under the heading of Wildlife Law to provide a more complete curriculum on biodiversity conservation, management and take.
-Adapted from Barbara Cosens, Festschrift in Honor of University of Idaho Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dale Goble, 56 Idaho L. Rev. 3 (2020).
Thank you, Dale, for all you did for the University of Idaho College of Law, our students, and the field of wildlife law. We will miss you.
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About Dale Goble (1947-2022)
University Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dale D. Goble pursued a J.D. in law at the University of Oregon after completing an A.B. in philosophy at Columbia College. He began his career in law with the honors program at the U.S. Department of the Interior. He remained at Interior for two years following the two-year honors stint during which time James Watt became Secretary of the Interior. Dale and his new boss did not see eye to eye on the law governing the conservation of species and public lands. Interior’s loss was the University of Idaho’s gain. Dale taught and mentored the students of the University of Idaho for thirty-six years prior to his retirement in 2017.
At the University of Idaho, Dale achieved the rank of University Distinguished Professor and the Margaret Wilson Schimke Distinguished Professor of Law. He was an adjunct faculty member of the Environmental Science, Bioregional Planning, Philosophy, and Water Resources Faculties. Externally he was also a Member Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform. At the College of Law, Dale’s quest to insert as many cases as possible with potatoes into the Torts curriculum led to the student-created label of “Tater Torts.” Dale taught Tater Torts to over fifteen hundred students from 1982 to 2017 and was truly instrumental in shaping torts law in Idaho.
While Tater Torts remained an internal favorite at the College of Law, Dale became known externally and internally for his teaching and scholarship in Public Land Law and Wildlife Law. In the words of one of his wildlife law casebook collaborators, Professor Eric Freyfogle, “Dale is the father of Wildlife Law.” The casebook brought together state law governing game management, conservation and take with federal and international law focused on species protection under the heading of Wildlife Law to provide a more complete curriculum on biodiversity conservation, management and take.
-Adapted from Barbara Cosens, Festschrift in Honor of University of Idaho Distinguished Professor Emeritus Dale Goble, 56 Idaho L. Rev. 3 (2020).
Thank you, Dale, for all you did for the University of Idaho College of Law, our students, and the field of wildlife law. We will miss you.
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