W. William Weeks is the founder of the Conservation Law Center. Weeks has worked in conservation for more than 25 years. He began his professional career in 1979 at the Indianapolis law firm of Sommer and Barnard, where he practiced corporate law and litigation. He joined the Nature Conservancy as the Indiana Director in 1982. He was named the Conservancy’s Chief Operating Officer in 1988, the Director of its Center for Compatible Economic Development in 1994, and its Executive Vice President in 1998. Weeks returned to the private practice of law, in Washington, D.C. for three years before coming back to Indiana to establish the Conservation Law Center, with the Indiana University School of Law, in 2005.
Weeks received his A.B. (History) from Indiana University in 1975, and his J.D. from the Indiana University School of Law (magna cum laude) in 1979. He has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Indiana University School of Law, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from I. U.’s School of Art and Sciences. He is a member of the bars of the state of Indiana, and of the District of Columbia.
Weeks is the author of Beyond the Ark (Island Press 1996.)
