Published Volumes

Armor or Withdraw? Likely Litigation and Potential Adjudication of Shoreland Conflicts Along Michigan’s Shifting Great Lake Coasts
Richard K. Norton, Guy A. Meadows, Oday Salim, Matthew Piggins, Phillip Washburn, & Lauren Ashley Week

The Dormant Commerce Clause as a Way to Combat the Anti-Competitive, Anti-Transmission-Development Effects of State Right of First Refusal Laws for Electricity Transmission Construction
Walker Mogen

Environmental Governance by Contract: The Growing Role of Supply Chain Contracting
Michael P. Vandenburgh & Patricia A. Moore

From Four Horsemen to the Rule of Six: The Deconstruction of Judicial Deference
Keith W. Rizzardi

Cultural Resources, Conquest, and Courts: How State Court Approaches to Statutory Interpretation Diminish Indigenous Cultural Resources Protections in California, Hawai´i, and Washington
Lauren Ashley Week

Taxing Risky Development: A New Tool for Increasing Coastal Resilience
James Daher

Evaporating Into Thin Air: The Prosecution of Air Pollution Crimes During the Trump Administration
Joshua Ozymy & Melissa Jarrell Ozymy

Un-Repeal: Reviving the Arms Control Impact Statements
David A. Koplow

The Public Trust and the Chicago Lakefront: Review of Kearney & Merrill’s Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago (Cornell U. Press, 2021)
Michelle C. Blumm

Significant Impacts Under NEPA: The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases as a Tool to Mitigate Climate Change
Sydney Hofferth

Removing the State Opt-Out for Demand Response
Ben Carroll

Structured to Fail: Lessons from the Trump Administration’s Faulty Pandemic Planning and Response
Alejandro E. Camacho & Robert L. Glicksman

Adding Bite to the Zone of Twilight: Applying Kisor to Revitalize the Youngstown Tripartite
Zachary W. Singer

Tightening the Legal ‘Net’: The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause Straddle of the Power Divide
Steven Ferrey

EIA Directive Procedural Guarantees as Substantive Individual Rights in IL v. Land Nordrhein-Westfalen
Alexis Haddock

A Solution to the Hard Problem of Soft Law
Keagan Potts

Implementing NEPA in the Age of Climate Change
Jayni Foley Hein & Natalie Jacewicz

The Rise and Fall of Clean Air Act Climate Policy
Nathan Richardson

What a Difference a State Makes: California’s Authority to Regulate Motor Vehicle Emissions Under the Clean Air Act and the Future of State Autonomy
Chiara Pappalardo

Natural Resources and Natural Law Part II: The Public Trust Doctrine
Robert W. Adler

Look to Windward: The Michigan Environmental Protection Act and the Case for Atmospheric Trust Litigation in the Mitten State
Jonathan M. Coumes

Litigating for the Homeland: An Indian Treaty Framework to Climate Litigation in the Wake of Juliana
Evan Neustater

Illuminating Regulatory Guidance
Cary Coglianese

A Bridge to Nowhere? Our Energy Transition and the Natural Gas Pipeline Wars
Sam Kalen

Making the Case for a Right to a Healthy Environment for the Protection of Vulnerable Communities: A Case of Coal-Ash Disaster in Puerto Rico
Sarah Dávila-Ruhaak

State Vehicle Electrification Mandates and Federal Preemption
Matthew N. Metz & Janelle London

The “Directive” Prong: Adding to the Allied-Signal Framework for Remand Without Vacatur
T. Alex B. Folkerth

The Federal Coal Leasing Program as an Actionable Subsidy Under International Trade Law
Jackson Erpenbach

The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act at 50: Overlooked Watershed Protection
Michael C. Blumm & Max M. Yoklic

Customary Law of Indigenous Communities: Making Space on the Global Environmental Stage
Melissa L. Tatum

Property, Unbundled Water Entitlements, and Anticommons Tragedies: A Cautionary Tale From Australia
Paul Babie, Paul Leadbeter & Kyriaco Nikias

Uncovering Wholesale Electricity Market Principles
Michael Panfil & Rama Zakaria

The Dormant Commerce Clause and State Clean Energy Legislation
Kevin Todd

Stop Regulating Government Paperwork With More Government Paperwork
Joseph D. Condon

Prosecutorial Discretion and Environmental Crime Redux: Charging Trends, Aggravating Factors, and Individual Outcome Data for 2005-2014
David M. Uhlmann

Can a State’s Water Rights Be Dammed? Environmental Flows and Federal Dams in the Supreme Court
Reed D. Benson

Reconciling Police Power Prerogatives, Public Trust Interests, and Private Property Rights Along Laurentian Great Lakes Shores
Richard K. Norton & Nancy H. Welsh

Examining the Administrative Unworkability of Final Agency Action Doctrine as Applied to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Adam Gerken

The Locked Gates to Tension City: The Commission on Presidential Debates, the FEC, and the Two-Party System
Tommy La Voy

Life Cycle Costing and Food Systems: Concepts, Trends, and Challenges of Impact Valuation
Katherine Fiedler, Steven Lord & Jason J. Czarnezki

Applying the Pennsylvania Environmental Rights Amendment Meaningfully to Climate Disruption
Robert B. McKinstry, Jr. & John C. Dernbach

Abandoned But Not Forgotten: Improperly Plugged and Orphaned Wells May Pose Serious Concerns for Shale Development
Bret Wells & Tracy Hester

Beyond Localism: Harnessing State Adaptation Lawmaking to Facilitate Local Climate Resilience
Sarah J. Adams-Schoen

How Safe Is Too Safe? Exemption 7(F) and the Withholding of Critical Documents
Grant Snyder

Presidential Permitting for Pipelines: Constitutionality and Reviewability
Joan Campau

The Role of the Courts in Guarding Against Privatization of Important Public Environmental Resources
Melissa K. Scanlan

Both Sides of the Rock: Justice Gorsuch and the Seminole Rock Deference Doctrine
Kevin O. Leske

Wilderness, Luck & Love: A Memoir and a Tribute
Neil Kagan

Reworking the Revolution: Treasury Rulemaking & Administrative Law
David Berke

Improving Generic Drug Approval at the FDA
Kathleen Craddock

Tiny Things with a Huge Impact: The International Regulation of Nanomaterials
Dario Picecchi

Lamarck Revisited: The Implications of Epigenetics for Environmental Law
Michael P. Vandenbergh, David J. Vandenbergh & John G. Vandenbergh

Assessing the Climate Impacts of U.S. Trade Agreements
Matthew C. Porterfield, Kevin P. Gallagher & Judith Claire Schachter

Technology-Based? Cost Factoring in U.S. Environmental Standards
Jamison E. Colburn

Making Bureaucracies Think Distributively: Reforming the Administrative State with Action-Forcing Distributional Review
Kenta Tsuda

Brexit and the WTO: What Happens Next
Andrea Xu

Energy-Water Nexus, the Clean Power Plan, and Integration of Water Resource Concerns into Energy Decision-Making
Sarah Ladin

Returning to the Tribal Environmental “Laboratory”: An Examination of Environmental Enforcement Techniques in Indian Country
Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner

We Need Protection from Our Protectors: The Nature, Issues, and Future of the Federal Trust Responsibility to Indians
Daniel I.S.J. Rey-Bear & Matthew L.M. Fletcher

San Manuel‘s Second Exception: Identifying Treaty Provisions That Support Tribal Labor Sovereignty
Briana Green

Exploring Alternatives to the “Consultation or Consent” Paradigm
Jason Searle

Whose Standard Controls? Maine v. McCanhy and the Federal, State, and Tribal Battle Over Water Quality Regulation
Joseph Paul Mortelliti

Using Proactice Legal Strategies for Corporate Environmental Sustainability
Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Paul Shrivistava & Adam Sulkowski

Comma but Differentiated Responsibilities: Punctuation and 30 Other Ways Negotiators Have Resolved Issues in the International Climate Change Regime
Susan Biniaz

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Litigation: Proof of Concept for the Manual for Complex Litigation and the 2015 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
John C. Cruden, Steve O’Rourke & Sarah D. Himmelhoch

Superfund Chaos Theory: What Happens When the Lower Federal Courts Don’t Follow the Supreme Court
Steven Ferrey

From Environmental Rights to Environmental Rule of Law: A Proposal for Better Environmental Outcomes
Jessica Scott

Bringing Pacific Bluefin Tuna Back from the Brink: Ensuring the Submission of Operational Data to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
Chris Wold, Mitsuhiko Takahashi, Siwon Park, Viv Fernandes & Sarah Butler

Change in Regulation is Necessary for Genetically Engineered Mosquitos
Insung Hwang

Defining Ambiguity in Broken Statutory Frameworks and its Limits on Agency Action
Amanda Urban

Major Questions About the “Major Questions” Doctrine
Kevin O. Leske

Incentive Regulation, New Business Models, and the Transformation of the Electric Power Industry
Inara Scott

The Water-Energy-Climate Nexus Under International Law: A Central Asian Perspective
Anatole Boute

Foiled by the Banks? How a Lender’s Decision May Support or Undermine a Jurisdiction’s Environmental Policies that Promote Green Buildings
Darren A. Prum

Economic Solutions to Nuclear Energy’s Financial Challenges
Zachary Robrock

Parallels in Public and Private Environmental Governance
Sarah E. Light & Eric W. Orts

Comma but Differentiated Responsibilities: Punctuation and 30 Other Ways Negotiators Have Resolved Issues in the International Climate Change Regime
Susan Biniaz

Water, Water, Everywhere: Surface Water Liability
Jill M. Fraley

The Private Causes of Action under CERCLA: Navigating the Intersection of Sections 107(a) and 113(f)
Jeffrey M. Gaba

Public Trust Doctrine Implications of Electricity Production
Lance Noel & Jeremy Firestone

Minimization Criteria for Off-Road Vehicle Use
Louisa S. Eberle

The Sun Doesn’t Always Shine in Ohio: Reevaluating Renewable Portfolio Standards in Light of Changed Conditions
Jeffrey M. Smith

Fun with Administrative Law: A Game for Lawyers and Judges
Adam Babich

Unpacking EME Homer: Cost, Proportionality, and Emissions Reductions
Daniel A. Farber

Instrument Choice, Carbon Emissions, and Information
Michael Wara

A Framework for Understanding Property Regulation and Land Use Control from a Dynamic Perspective
Donald J. Kochan

Too Many Cooks in the Climate Change Kitchen: The Case for an Administrative Remedy for Damages Caused by Increased Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
Benjamin Reese

Cooperative Mineral Interest Development in the Lone Star State: It’s Time to Mess with Texas
Matthew K. Trawick

Delinking International Environmental Law & Climate Change
Cinnamon Carlarne

Blueprint for the Great Lakes Trail
Melissa K. Scanlan

The Cost of Nothing Trumps the Value of Everything: The Failure of Regulatory Economics to Keep Pace with Improvements in Quantitative Risk Analysis
Adam M. Finkel

Joseph Sax, a Human Kaleidoscope
Zygmunt Plater

Making Ideas Matter: Remembering Joe Sax
Mark Van Putten

Joseph L. Sax: The Realm of the Legal Scholar
Nina A. Mendelson

The Legacy of Professor Joe Sax
Fred Krupp

Legal Protection for Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems
Colin Gannon

Environmental Law, Public Health, and the Values Conundrum
David M. Uhlmann

Keynote Remarks at the University of Michigan Environmental Law and Public Health Conference
Gina McCarthy

Harnessing Private Regulation
Lesley K. McAllister

Protecting Human Health and Stewarding the Environment: An Essay Exploring Values in U.S. Environmental Protection Law
Tracy Bach

Complex Value Choices at the Environment-Energy Interface
Hari M. Osofsky

Human-Centered Environmental Values Versus Nature-Centric Environmental Values-Is This the Question?
Zygmunt J.B. Plater

Environmental Law at the Crossroads: Looking Back 25, Looking Forward 25
Richard J. Lazarus

Midnight Rules: A Reform Agenda
Jack M. Beerman

Why International Catch Shares Won’t Save Ocean Biodiversity
Holly Doremus

Making Method Visible: Improving the Quality of Science-Based Regulation
Packy Pascual, Wendy Wagner & Elizabeth Fisher

Avoiding Jeopardy, Without the Questions: Recovery Implementation Programs for Endangered Species in Western River Basins
Reed D. Benson

Fish and Federalism: How the Asian Carp Litigation Highlights a Deficiency in the Federal Common Law Displacement Analysis
Molly M. Watters

Enhancing Public Access to Online Rulemaking Information
Cary Coglianese

Roles for State Energy Regulators in Climate Change Mitigation
Brandon Hofmeister

Rulemaking vs. Democracy: Judging and Nudging Public Participation That Counts
Cynthia R. Farina, Mary Newhart, Josiah Heidt & Cornell eRulemaking Initiative

Environmental Aesthetics and Free Speech: Toward a Consistent Content Neutrality Standard for Outdoor Sign Regulation
Brian J. Connolly

Judicial Limitation of the EPA’s Oversight Authority in Clean Water Act Permitting of Mountaintop Mining Valley Fills
Christopher D. Eaton

The Quest for a Sustainable Future and the Dawn of a New Journal at Michigan Law
David M. Uhlmann

What the Return of the Administrative Conference of the United States Means for Administrative Law
Paul R. Verkuil

Deregulatory Riders Redux
Thomas O. McGarity

A Functional Approach to Risks and Uncertainties Under NEPA
Todd S. Aagaard

The $1.75 Trillion Lie
Lisa Heinzerling & Frank Ackerman

Is a Substantive, Non-Positivist United States Environmental Law Possible?
Dan Tarlock

The Case for Abolishing Centralized White House Regulatory Review
Rena Steinzor

Text(Plus-Other-Stuff)ualism: Textualists’ Perplexing Use of the Attorney General’s Manual on the Administrative Procedure Act
K.M. Lewis