He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Denver University School of Law, where he has taught courses on international mineral law and policy, and holds an appointment as an Honorary Lecturer and Course Director at the Faculty of the Center for Energy, Petroleum and Minerals Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. The board has also announced the appointment of Norman Anderson as non-executive chairman to the board of directors. Anderson has been a director of Rare Element since it acquired the Bear Lodge rare earth element project in 2003, and has worked for companies like: Cominco, now Teck Resources, during which time he spent a four-year period in an executive position with Amax Lead Zinc Inc.