UC Davis Professor of Law Emeritus Harrison (“Hap”) Dunning passed away at the end of March 2025 at the age of 86. You can read the details of his life in the Davis Enterprise Obituary, including the story of his extensive work in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, but he is best known in the UC Davis community for his work on water law and the public trust doctrine. From serving on the Governor’s Commission to Review California Water Rights Law in the 1970s to his work on the California Water Commission and the Bay Delta Advisor Council, he lived a life of service to the California water community. California’s public trust doctrine is built in part on Prof. Dunning’s legacy of scholarship, which includes a foundation public trust conference at UC Davis that resulted in several papers cited in the California Supreme Court’s Mono Lake decision. [Harrison was a longtime board member of the Water Education Foundation].