Environmental Law Research

Even before the creation of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, the 星空传媒 School of Law sponsored important symposia on environmental law issues, including programs that led to the following publications.

The Environmental Protection Agency Turns 50

Co-sponsored by the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, The Law-Medicine Center and the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health

  • Jonathan H. Adler, 
  • Andrew Wheeler, 
  • E. Donald Elliott, 
  • Joseph Goffman and Laura Bloomer, 
  • Joseph E. Aldy, 
  • Cary Coglianese and Daniel E. Walters, 
  • Emily Hammond, 
  • Michael A. Livermore, 
  • Brian F. Mannix, 
  • Wendy Wagner, 
  • Michael P. Vandenbergh, Jonathan M. Gilligan, and Haley Feuerman, 
  • Robert V. Percival, 

 

Property in Ecology (2019)

Co-Sponsored with the

  • Jonathan H. Adler, Introduction: Property in Ecology,
  • Donald J. Boundreaux & Roger Meiners, Externality: Origins and Classifications,
  • James L. Huffman, American Prairie Reserve: Protecting Wildlife Habitat on a Grand Scale,
  • Joseph Regalia & Noah D. Hall, Waters of the State,
  • Donald J. Kochan, The Market To Roam: Using Sharing Economy Platforms for Expanding Roaming Access to Land Resources,
  • Bryan Leonard & Shawn Regan, Legal and Institutional Barriers to Establishing Non-Use Rights to Natural Resources,
  • Steven M. Smith, Instream Flow Rights within the Prior Appropriation Doctrine: Insights from Colorado,
  • Katrina M. Wyman, Second Generation Property Rights Issues,

 

PERC/LEC Workshop on Environmental Federalism (2014)

  • H. Spencer Banzhaf, The Market for Local Public Goods, .
  • Robert D. Cheren, Fracking Bans, Taxation, and Environmental, .
  • Brannon P. Denning, Environmental Federalism and State Renewable Portfolio Standards, .
  • Jason Scott Johnston, A Positive Political Economic Theory of Environmental Federalization,
  • Daniel A. Lyons, Federalism and the Rise of Renewable Energy: Preserving State and Local Voices in the Green Energy Revolution,
  • Daniel L. Millimet, Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature,  
  • Jim Rossi, 鈥淢aladaptive鈥 Federalism: The Structural Barriers to Coordination of State Sustainability Initiatives,
  • Stuart Shapiro and Debra Borie-Holtz, Exploring the Relationship Between Regulatory Reform in the States and State Regulatory Output,  

 

The Law and Policy of Hydraulic Fracturing: Addressing the Issues of the Natural Gas Boom (2013)

  • Jonathan L. Entin, Symposium: The Law and Policy of Hydraulic Fracturing: Addressing the Issues of the Natural Gas Boom -- Introduction, .
  • Thomas W. Merrill, Four Questions About Fracking,
  • John R. Nolon and Steven E. Gavin, Hydrofracking: State Preemption, Local Power, and Cooperative Governance, . 
  • Peter M. Gerhart and Robert E. Cheren, Recognizing the Shared Ownership of Subsurface Resource Pools, 63 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1041 (2013). 
  • Christopher S. Kulander, Shale Oil and Gas State Regulatory Issues and Trends,  
  • Kalyani Robbins, Awakening the Slumbering Giant: How Horizontal Drilling Technology Brought the Endangered Species Act to Bear on Hydraulic Fracturing 
  • Nicholas Schroeck and Stephanie Karisny, Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Management in the Great Lakes,  
  • Joseph P. Tomain, Shale Gas and Clean Energy Policy,  
  • Elizabeth Burleson, Climate  
  • Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, Applying Some Lessons from the Gulf Oil Spill to Hydraulic Fracturing,  
  • Timothy Fitzgerald, Frackonomics: Some Economics of Hydraulic Fracturing,  

 

Regulation by LItigation Symposium (2011)

  • Bruce Yandle Andrew Dorchak Andrew P. Morriss, Regulation by Litigation, .
  • Cary Coglianese, Process Choice, .
  • Jonathan Cannon, Taking Enforcement on Its Own Terms: EPA's heavy鈥恉uty diesel engine litigation, .
  • William Funk, Regulation by Litigation: Not so bad? .

 

Common Law Environmental Protection (2008)

  • Jonathan H. Adler & Andrew P. Morriss, Symposium: Common-Law Environmental Protection -- Introduction, .  
  • Steven J. Eagle, The Common Law and the Environment, . 
  • Stuart Buck, The Common Law and the Environment in the Courts, . 
  • Bruce Yandle, The Common Law and the Environment in the Courts: Discussion of Code Law and Common Law, . 
  • Denise Antolini, Attacking Bananas and Defending Environmental Common Law, . 
  • Keith N. Hylton, The Economic Theory of Nuisance Law and Implications for Environmental Regulation, . 
  • Henry N. Butler, A Defense of Common Law Environmentalism: The Discovery of Better Environmental Policy, . 
  • J.B. Ruhl, Making Nuisance Ecological, . 
  • John Copeland Nagle, From Swamp Drainage to Wetlands Regulation to Ecological Nuisances to Environmental Ethics, . 
  • James L. Huffman, Beware of Greens in Praise of the Common Law, . 
  • David Schoenbrod, Unsettled Expectations: Reflections on Four Views of the Common Law and the Environment, . 

 

Symposium on Bj酶rn Lomborg鈥檚 The Skeptical Environmentalist (2002)

  • Jonathan H. Adler and Andrew P. Morriss, Symposium on Bj酶rn Lomborg鈥檚 The Skeptical Environmentalist: Introduction: The Virtues and Vices of Skeptical Environmentalism, . 
  • Robert V. Percival, Skeptical Environmentalist or Statistical Spin-Doctor?: Bj酶rn Lomborg and the Relationship Between Environmental Law and Environmental Progress, . 
  • Bruce Yandle, Mr. Lomborg and the Common Law, .
  • Daniel J. Rohlf, Revenge of the Once-ler: The Skeptical Environmentalist, . 
  • Todd J. Zywicki, Baptists?: The Political Economy of Environmental Interest Groups, . 
  • Allen Hammond and Emily Matthews, Faculty Scholarship: Lomborg and Earth鈥檚 Living Systems, . 
  • Indur M. Goklany, Affluence, Technology, and Well-Being, . 
  • James L. Huffman, Either You鈥檙e With Us or against Us: No Room for the Skeptical Environmentalist, . 
  • Marc R. Poirier, 鈥淚t Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times鈥:鈥 Science, Rhetoric, and a Distribution in a Risky World, . 
  • Terry L. Anderson and Lea-Rachel Kosnik, Sustainable Skepticism and Sustainable Development, . 
  • John C. Dernbach, Sustainable Versus Unsustainable Propositions, . 
  • Frank B. Cross, The Naive Environmentalist, .