Dean Lueck is the Bartley P. Cardon Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona. He also has courtesy appointments in the Department of Economics in the Eller College of Management and in the Rogers College of Law, and is co-director of the Program on Economics, Law and the Environment. He has conducted extensive research in law and contract economics with emphasis on agriculture and natural resource applications. His current research projects include agricultural land contracts, the economics of conservation easements, the economic function and effects of property law, the domestication of wild animals, and the behaviour of state wildlife agencies. He serves on the Board of Directors of the International Society for New Institutional Economics.