John C. Peck

Mr. Peck has served clients at Foulston Siefkin since 1996 and concentrates on water law and real estate transactional work. He taught classes in family law, land transactions, water law, and contracts at the University of Kansas School of Law for 41 years and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America©.

Education

• University of Kansas (J.D., 1974)
  Order of the Coif; Articles Editor - Kansas Law Review
• Kansas State University (B.S., 1968)

Admissions

• Kansas (1974)

• Water Rights
• Real Estate
• Administrative/Regulatory

• Agribusiness
• Real Estate

• Country Club Christian Church

Mr. Peck’s work at Foulston Siefkin has been primarily in water rights transactional work, including buying, selling, changing, and preserving water rights and representing clients before the Division of Water Resources of the Kansas State Department of Agriculture. His clients have included cities, industries, golf courses, farmers, developers, and estates.

Law School, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas: Associate Professor, 1978 to 1983; Professor, 1983 to 2019; Connell Teaching Professor in Kansas Law, 1999 to 2019. Everett, Seaton & Peck, Attorneys at Law, Manhattan, Kansas: Associate, 1974 to 1975; Partner, 1975 to 1978. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, D.C.: staff engineer; assistant to director of NATO pilot study on air pollution, 1968 to 1971.

• Kansas Water Office, Water Legacy Award, 2022
• Clyde O. Martz Teaching Award, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, 2018
• Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Natural Resources Law, 2003-2025, and Water Law, 2007-2025
• Distinguished Alumni Award, Kansas University School of Law, 2016
• Awarded the W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, 2004
• Outstanding Service Award, Kansas Bar Association, 2003
• Connell Teaching Professor of Law, 1999
• Dean Frederick J. Moreau Award, 1998
• Immel Award for Teaching Excellence, 1998
• American Bar Association
• Kansas Bar Association Member, Title Standards Committee
• Journal of the Kansas Bar Association Board of Editors
• Connell Family Teaching Chair, University of Kansas

2019

• Water Law 101 for the Estate Planner and Administrator (Foulston Siefkin, Winter Estate Planning Forum)

2012

• Speaker on water law topics (1982 to present: Chicago; San Antonio; Denver; Kansas City; San Francisco; Seattle; Istanbul, Turkey)

2024

• Don't Be Stupid or Mean: Be Aware of Slander of Title in Kansas
  -Kansas Bar Journal, May/June 2024, Vol. 93, No. 3

2019

• Groundwater Management: The Movement Toward Local, Community-Based, Voluntary Programs
  -Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy

2015

• Legal Challenges in Government Imposition of Water Conservation: The Kansas Example
  -Agronomy Journal

2014

• Legal Responses to Drought in Kansas
  -Kansas Law Review

2012

• Water Allocation Law and the Oil and Gas Industry in Kansas: An Update to the 1981 Neufeld Article
  -Journal of Kansas Bar Association

2011

• Water Use and Reuse: The New Hydrologic Cycle
  -Proceedings of the Rocky Mountain min. Law Fifty-Seventh Annual Institute

2009

• Comparative Water Law and Management: The Yellow River Basin In Western China and the State of the Kansas In the Western United States
  -Kansas Journal of Law
• Land Description Errors: Recognition, Avoidance, and Consequences
  -Kansas Bar Association

2008

• Groundwater law and Management: The Asia (IWMI)-Kansas Program
  -Creighton Law Review

2006

• Groundwater Management in Kansas: A Brief History and Assessment
  -Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy

2004

• Water Law Chapter
  -Kansas Annual Survey of the Law published annually by Kansas Bar Association
• Book chapter on Kansas Water Law, Waters and Water Rights
  -State Surveys
• Protecting the Ogallala Aquifer in Kansas from Depletion: The Teaching Perspective
  -Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law

2003

• Property Rights in Groundwater–Some Lessons from the Kansas Experience
  -Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy

2001

• Assessing the Quality of a Water Right
  -Kansas Bar Association

1997

• Title and Related Considerations in Conveying Kansas Water Rights
  -Kansas Bar Association

1995

• Loss of Kansas Water Rights for Non-use
  -Kansas Law Review
• The Kansas Water Appropriation Act, a Fifty-Year Perspective
  -Kansas Law Review

1994

• Condemnation of Water and Water Rights in Kansas
  -Kansas Law Review

1992

• Water Law in Kansas History
  -Kansas Bar Association
• Kansas Water Assurance Districts
  -Kansas Law Review

1991

• Book chapter on Kansas Water Law, Waters and Water Rights
  -State Surveys

1990

• Water Law Chapter
  -Kansas Annual Survey of the Law published annually by Kansas Bar Association
• A Legal Study of Water Transfer Act
  -Kansas Water Resources Research Institute

1989

• Legal Aspects of Kansas Water Resources Planning
  -Kansas Law Review

1988

• Kansas Water Rights: Changes and Transfers
  -Kansas Bar Association

1985

• Improving Effectiveness in Planning and Equity Financing of State Water Resources Management
  -Kansas Water Resources Research Institute

1984

• Legal Aspects of Water Storage in Federal Reservoirs in Kansas
  -Kansas Law Review

1982

• Legal Constraints on Diverting Water from Eastern to Western Kansas
  -Kansas Law Review

1980

• Kansas Groundwater Management Districts
  -Kansas Law Review

1979

• Kansas Reporter
  -Water Law Newsletter