Environmental Law Research

Even before the creation of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, the Case ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ 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, β€œMaladaptive” 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‐duty 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 BjΓΈrn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist (2002)

  • Jonathan H. Adler and Andrew P. Morriss, Symposium on BjΓΈrn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist: Introduction: The Virtues and Vices of Skeptical Environmentalism, . 
  • Robert V. Percival, Skeptical Environmentalist or Statistical Spin-Doctor?: BjΓΈrn 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’s Living Systems, . 
  • Indur M. Goklany, Affluence, Technology, and Well-Being, . 
  • James L. Huffman, Either You’re With Us or against Us: No Room for the Skeptical Environmentalist, . 
  • Marc R. Poirier, β€œIt Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times…:” 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, .