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Lacy to lead UA's Global Mining Law Center 

John Lacy, a shareholder in DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy, has been appointed to head the University of Arizona’s new Global Mining Law Center.

The center, housed at the UA’s James E. Rogers College of Law, will provide specialty courses, including human- rights laws, indigenous- peoples law and policy, and environmental law. Degree and non-degree educational opportunities will be available, both online and on-campus.

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Lacy has been with DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy since 1977, focusing his practice on mining and public land law. He has taught courses on mining and public land law, oil and gas law, and mining transactions at the Rogers College of Law and in the UA Department of Mining and Geological Engineering as an adjunct professor since 1976. He authored numerous publications about mineral rights and mineral law history.

He received a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from the UA in 1964 and graduated from the UA College of Law in 1967. Lacy is a past president of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and the Arizona Historical Society. He served in the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps in Vietnam during 1969-70.