Bradford C. Mank

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Education

  • BA, Harvard University
  • JD, Yale University

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Areas of Interest

  • Administrative Law
  • Environmental and Natural Resources Law
  • Property

Bradford C. Mank
James B. Helmer, Jr. Professor of Law


After law school, Professor Mank served as law clerk for Justice David M. Shea of the Connecticut Supreme Court. He later became associated with the Hartford, Conn., law firm of Murtha, Cullina, Righter and Pinney, where his emphasis was environmental law. In 1989, Professor Mank became an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Connecticut and held that position for two years before joining the College of Law faculty in 1991. He has authored many articles and book chapters on environmental justice, regulatory reform, and statutory interpretation. He has also worked with the City of Cincinnati on a number of environmental ordinances and implementation matters, including climate change, environmental justice, recycling, and air pollution issues.

Publications

Presentations

  • Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA's New Standing Test for States, University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law (November 1, 2007)
  • Continuing Legal Education, Evolving Climate Change Regulations: Developing Trends in Law and Litigation, The Digest of Environmental Law and the Legal Publishing Group of Strafford Publications (September 12, 2007)
  • Continuing Legal Education, Evolving Climate Change Regulations: Developing Trends in Law and Litigation, The Digest of Environmental Law and the Legal Publishing Group of Strafford Publications (November 14, 2006)
  • Environmental Justice and the Poor, Law Professors' Christian Fellowship Annual Conference, Catholic University, Columbus School of Law, Washington, D.C. (January 4, 2003)
  • Environmental Justice and Air Permits, Community Conference on Air Pollution, Environmental Community Organization, Corryville Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio (November 9, 2002)
  • Environmental Justice: The Impact of Sandoval and South Camden on Title VI and Section 1983, Tulane Environmental Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana (March 8, 2002)
  • Environmental Justice: The South Camden Case, University of Cincinnati Law Review and Moot Court, Cincinnati, Ohio (March 4, 2002)
  • The Legal Aspects of Environmental Justice, City of Cincinnati, Environmental Advisory Council (November 28, 2001)
  • The Demise of CERCLA's Federal Common Law and Corporate Successor Liability, Cincinnati Bar Association, Environmental Law Seminar (November 8, 2000)
  • The Demise of CERCLA's Federal Common Law and Corporate Successor Liability, Corporate Law Symposium, University of Cincinnati (March 9, 2000)
  • Title VI Litigation, Environmental Justice Symposium, College of Law, University of Cincinnati (April 23, 1999)
  • The Case for Affirmative Action, Affirmative Action Debate, Northern Kentucky University (March 29, 1999)
  • Endangered Species Symposium, College of Law, University of Cincinnati (April 17, 1998)
  • Bridging the Gap Between Environmental Lawyers and Engineers or Scientists, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-University of Cincinnati College of Engineering Seminar Series (May 23, 1996)
  • Implications of the Federal Budget Crisis on Environmental Protection, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-University of Cincinnati College of Engineering Seminar Series (February 22, 1996)
  • Environmental Compliance: A Short Course, University of Cincinnati College of Engineering (May 31—June 2, 1995)
  • Environmental Implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement, University of Cincinnati College of Law, Environmental Law and International Law Societies (March 11, 1994)
  • Preventing Bhopal: "Dead Zones" and Toxic Death Risk Index Taxes, 35th Annual Meeting, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), Philadelphia (October 29, 1993)
  • Overview of Environmental Law, University of Cincinnati Department of Environmental Health, Graduate Seminar (February 3, 1993)
  • Using Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques to Site Landfills, Workshop for Southwestern Ohio Solid Waste Management Districts, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Institute for Environmental Studies (November 6, 1991)
  • Composting Seminar, University of Cincinnati Department of Environmental Health (March 8, 1991)

Courses

  • Administrative Law
  • Environmental Law I
  • Environmental Law II
  • International Environmental Law

Awards

November 2011

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

 

October 2011

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

Brad, a member of this year’s faculty appointments committee, attended the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) recruiting conference in Washington, D.C., on October 14 & 15.

September 2011

Brad’s article, Reading the Standing Tea Leaves in American Electric Power v. Connecticut, has been accepted for publication in the University of Richmond Law Review in 2012.

Brad presented the same article at the Second Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship at Vermont Law School on September 23.

Two of Brad’s articles were cited:

Summer 2011

Brad’s article, Standing in Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms: Using Economic Injury as a Basis for Standing When Environmental Harm is Difficult to Prove, 115 Penn. St. L. Rev. 307 (2010), is now in print.

In August, Brad presented a paper titled, “Standing in Connecticut vs. American Electric Power,” to the law faculty as part of the College’s Summer 2011 Faculty Workshop series.

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

Are Public Facilities Different from Private Ones?: Adopting a New Standard of Review for the Dormant Commerce Clause, 60 SMU L. Rev. 157 (2007), in Kellen S. Dwyer, Dormant Commerce Clause Review Of Public-Private Partnerships After United Haulers: A Competitive Bidding Solution, 18 Va. J. Soc. Pol'y & L. 203 (2011);

May 2011

Several of Brad’s articles were cited: 

Environmental Justice and Title VI: Making Recipient Agencies Justify Their Siting Decisions, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 787 (1999), was cited in James T. O'Reilly & Caroline Broun, RCRA and Superfund: A Practice Guide § 4.3 (3d ed. 2011 Supp.); 

The Draft Title VI Recipient and Revised Investigation Guidances: Too Much Discretion for EPA and a More Difficult Standard for Complainants?, 30 Envl L. Rep. 11144 (Envl L. Inst.) (Dec. 2000), was cited in James T. O'Reilly & Caroline Broun, RCRA and Superfund: A Practice Guide § 4.3 (3d ed. 2011 Supp.); and 

Textualism's Selective Canons of Statutory Construction: Reinvigorating Individual Liberties, Legislative Authority and Deference to Executive Agencies, 86 Ky L.J. 527 (1998), was cited in Alex Kardon, Damages Under the Privacy Act: Sovereign Immunity and a Call for Legislative Reform, 34 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 705 (2011).

 

April 2011

Brad’s most recent paper, Informational Standing After Summers, 39 B.C. Envtl Aff. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2011), has been accepted for publication.

Brad’s article, Standing and Future Generations: Does Massachusetts v. EPA Open Standing for the Unborn?, 34 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2009), was cited in Douglas A. Kysar, What Climate Change Can Do About Tort Law, 41 Envtl. L. 1 (2011).

March 2011

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

·Rewarding Defendant Cooperation under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Judges vs. Prosecutors, 26 Crim. L. Bull. 399 (1990), in F. Lee Bailey & Kenneth J. Fishman, Handling Narcotic and Drug Cases (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2011 Supp.);

·Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA’s New Standing Test for States, 49 Wm & Mary L. Rev. 1701 (2008), in Amy Widman,Advancing Federalism Concerns In Administrative Law Through A Revitalization Of State Enforcement Powers: A Case Study Of The Consumer Product Safety And Improvement Act Of 2008, 29 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 165 (2010);

·Standing and Future Generations: Does Massachusetts v. EPA Open Standing for the Unborn?, 34 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2009), in Heather Elliott, Congress's Inability To Solve Standing Problems, 91 B.U. L. Rev. 159 (2011); and

·Standing and Statistical Persons: A Risk-Based Approach to Standing, 36 Ecology L.Q. 665 (2009), in Heather Elliott, Congress's Inability To Solve Standing Problems, 91 B.U. L. Rev.159 (2011).

February 2011

Several of Brad’s publications were cited:

·Legal Context: Reading Statutes in Light of Prevailing Legal Precedent, 34 Ariz. St. L.J. 815 (2002), in Anita S. Krishnakumar, Statutory Interpretation In The Roberts Court's First Era: An EmpiricalAnd Doctrinal Analysis, 62 Hastings L.J. 221 (2010);

· Protecting Intrastate Threatened Species: Does the Endangered Species Act Encroach on Traditional State Authority and Exceed the Outer Limits of the Commerce Clause?, 36 Ga. L. Rev. 723 (2002), in Robert D. Cooter & Neil S. Siegel, Collective Action Federalism: A General Theory Of Article I, Section 8, 63 Stan. L. Rev. 115 (2010);

·What Comes After Technology: Using an "Exceptions Process" to Improve Residual Risk Regulation of Hazardous Air Pollutants, 13 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 263 (1994), in Matthew D. Adler, Against "Individual Risk": A Sympathetic Critique Of Risk Assessment, 153 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1121 (2005); and

· Public Participation (Chapter 31), in Brownfield's Law and Practice (Michael B. Gerrard ed. Matthew Bender 1998), was cited in Larry Schnapf, How The CERCLA Notification Requirements Facilitate The Creation Of Brownfields And What EPA Can Do To Address This Problem, 11 Sustainable Dev. L. & Pol'y 19 (2010).

January 2011

Brad’s article, Revisiting the Lyons Den: Summers v. Earth Island Institute’s Misuse of Lyons’ “Realistic Threat” of Harm Standing Test, 42 Ariz. St. L.J. 837 (2010), is now in print.

Brad’s article, The Supreme Court’s New Public-Private Distinction Under the Dormant Commerce Clause: Avoiding the Traditional Versus Nontraditional Classification Trap, 37 Hastings Const. L.Q. 1 (2009), was cited in Lawrence Fogel, Serving A "Public Function": Why Regional Cap-And-Trade Programs Should Survive A Dormant Commerce Clause Challenge, 2010 Wis. L. Rev. 1313.

December 2011

Brad’s article, Revisiting The Lyons Den: Summers v. Earth Island Institute's Misuse Of Lyons's "Realistic Threat" Of Harm Standing Test, 42 Ariz. St. L. 837 (2010), is now in print.

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

November 2010

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

October 2010

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

Brad presented his paper, Informational Standing after Summers vs. Earth Island Institute, at the First Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship at the Vermont Law School, Oct. 22, 2010.

September 2010

Brad’s article, Summers v. Earth Island Institute: Its Implications for Future Standing Decisions, was published by the Environmental Law Institute® in 40 Environmental Law Reporter 10958-10973 (October 2010).

Brad’s new article,  Standing in Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms: Using Economic Injury as a Basis for Standing When Environmental Harm is Difficult to Prove, has been accepted for publication in the Pennsylvania State Law Review.

Several of Brad’s publications were cited:

Summer 2010

Several of Brad’s publications were cited:

Brad also completed an article, Summers v. Earth Island Institute: A Flawed Standing Decision, 40 Envtl. L. Rep. ___ (forthcoming 2010), which was a solicited article based in part on Brad’s presentation at a symposium at Georgetown Law School on February 26, 2010.

June 2010

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

May 2010

Brad spoke at Northwestern on a panel on The Climate Change Lawsuits as part of the Judicial Symposium on Expansion of Liability Under Public Nuisance. He participated in a debate on Environmental Protection: Government Regulation vs. Free-Market Solutions, sponsored by the Ohio Northern University chapter of the Federalist Society and the Environmental Law Society.

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

April 2010

Brad published Summers v. Earth Island Institute Rejects Probabilistic Standing, But Laidlaw Still Leaves an Opening for Threatened Injuries, 40 Envtl. L. 89 (2010). His article, Revisiting the Lyons Den: Summers v. Earth Island Institute’s Misuse of Lyons’ “Realistic Threat” of Harm Standing Test, was accepted for publication in the Arizona State Law Journal.

Brad’s article, Standing and Global Warming: Is Injury to All Injury to None?, 35 Envtl. L. 1 (2005), was cited in Nicholas A. Fromherz & Joseph W. Mead, Equal Standing with States: Tribal Sovereignty and Standing after Massachusetts v. EPA, 29 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 130 (2010).

March 2010

Brad served as a panelist with Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Edwin S. Kneedler at Georgetown on Environmental Protection in the Balance: Citizens, Courts & the Constitution, sponsored by UC-Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, the Environmental Law Institute, and Georgetown. He debated Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute at Property Rights and the Environment at the College, sponsored by the Federalist Society and the Environmental Law Society).

Brad’s article, Protecting the Environment for Future Generations: A Proposal for a "Republican" Superagency, 5 NYU Envtl L.J. 444 (1996), was cited in Jonathan Remy Nash, Allocation and Uncertainty: Strategic Responses to Environmental Grandfathering, 36 Ecology L.Q. 809 (2009).

January 2010

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

Brad’s article, Standing and Statistical Persons: A Risk-Based Approach to Standing, 36 Ecology L.Q. 665 (2009), was featured in Legal Scholar Advocates Statistical Risk-Based Test For Lawsuit Standing, InsideEPA.com, Dec. 9, 2009.

December 2009

Brad published The Supreme Court’s New Public-Private Distinction under the Dormant Commerce Clause: Avoiding the Traditional versus Nontraditional Classification Trap, 37 Hastings Const. L.Q. 1 (2009). His article, Summers v. Earth Island Institute Rejects Probabilistic Standing, But a 'Realistic Threat' of Harm is a Better Standing Test, 40 Envtl. L. ___ (2010), was featured on Larry Solum's Legal Theory Blog.

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

October 2009

Brad’s article, Summers v. Earth Island Institute Rejects Probabilistic Standing, But Laidlaw Still Leaves an Opening for Threatened Injuries, was accepted for publication in Environmental Law.

Brad’s article, Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA’s New Standing Test for States, 49 Wm & Mary L. Rev. 1701 (2008), was cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Connecticut v. American Electric Power Company Inc., 2009 WL 2996729 (2d Cir. Sept. 21, 2009), which held that states had standing to bring public nuisance suits against public utility companies such as AEP or Duke Energy. The original three-judge panel included Sonia Sotomayor, but the decision was issued by the remaining two judges.

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

Summer 2009

Brad’s article, The Supreme Court’s New Public-Private Distinction under the Dormant Commerce Clause: Avoiding the Traditional versus Nontraditional Classification Trap, was accepted for publication in the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. The ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice published an abridged version of his article, Standing and Future Generations: Does Massachusetts v. EPA Open Standing for the Unborn?, 34 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2009).

Brad presented Summers Rejects Probabilistic Standing, But Laidlaw Still Leaves an Opening for Threatened Injuries as part of the 13th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series. The City of Cincinnati’s Council adopted an Environmental Justice Ordinance, a project on which Brad has consulted. Brad was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Mill Creek Restoration Project.

Several of Brad’s publications were cited:

June 2009

Brad consulted with the City Solicitor’s Office on the drafting an the environmental justice ordinance for the City of Cincinnati. The City Council’s Health & Environment Committee approved the ordinance on May 27th. City Council will vote on it on June 3rd.

Several of Brad’s publications were cited:

May 2009

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

April 2009

Brad published Standing and Future Generations: Does Massachusetts v. EPA Open Standing for the Unborn?, 34 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2009). Two of his articles were cited:

March 2009

Two of Brad’s articles were cited:

February 2009

Brad’s article, After Gonzales v. Raich: Is the Endangered Species Act Constitutional under the Commerce Clause?, 78 U. Colo. L. Rev. 375 (2007), was cited in Noelle Formosa, Ganging up on RICO: Narrowing Gonzales v. Raich to Preserve the Significance of the Jurisdictional Element as a Constitutional Limitation in the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 82 S. Cal. L. Rev. 135 (2008).

January 2009

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

December 2008

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

November 2008

Mayor Mallory appointed Brad to the Green Cincinnati Steering Committee. Several of Brad's articles were cited:

October 2008

Brad's article, Standing and Statistical Persons: Should Large Public Interest Organizations Have Greater Standing Rights than Individuals?, was accepted for publication in the Ecology Law Quarterly.

Summer 2008

Brad presented Standing and Statistical Persons: Should Large Public Interest Organizations Have Greater Standing Rights Than Individuals? as part of the 12th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

Several of Brad's articles were cited:

June 2008

Brad published:

Brad's article, Are Public Facilities Different from Private Ones?: Adopting a New Standard of Review for the Dormant Commerce Clause, 60 SMU L. Rev. 157 (2007), was cited in Daniel A. Crane, Antitrust Antifederalism, 96 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2008).

May 2008

Brad published Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA's New Standing Test for States, 49 William & Mary L. Rev. 1701 (2008). He posted Standing and Future Generations: Does Massachusetts v. EPA Open Standing for the Unborn? on SSRN.

Brad serves as a member of the City of Cincinnati Climate Change Steering Committee, which issued its final report to City Council.

Several of Brad's articles were cited:

April 2008

Brad's article, Standing and Future Generations: Does Massachusetts v. EPA Open Standing for the Unborn?, was accepted for publication in the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law.

Several of Brad's publications were cited:

February 2008

Brad was appointed as representative of the City's Environmental Advisory Council to Mayor Mallory's Steering Committee on Climate Change, which is developing a scheme to reduce the City of Cincinnati's emissions of greenhouse gases.

Several of Brad's articles were cited:

December 2007

Brad published Title VI and the Warren County Protests, 1 Golden Gate Envtl. L. Rev. 73 (2007). He presented Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA's New Standing Test for States at Louisville.

Two of Brad's articles were cited:

November 2007

Several of Brad's articles were cited:

October 2007

Brad's article, Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA's New Standing Test for States, was accepted for publication in the William & Mary Law Review. The article was featured on Larry Solum's Legal Theory Blog.

Brad participated in an online CLE program on Evolving Climate Change Regulations: Developing Trends in Law and Litigation sponsored by The Digest of Environmental Law and the Legal Publishing Group of Strafford Publications.

Several of Brad's articles were cited:

Summer 2007

Brad published After Gonzales v. Raich: Is the Endangered Species Act Constitutional under the Commerce Clause?, 78 U. Colo. L. Rev. 375 (2007).

Brad presented Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens? as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series. He completed the article and submitted it to law reviews.

Several of Brad's articles were cited:

June 2007

Brad published:

Two of Brad's articles were cited:

Brad was quoted in Paul Webster, Is It Time to Hand Global Warming to the Lawyers?, Toronto Star, May 3 2007, at D3.

May 2007

As Chair of the City of Cincinnati's Environmental Advisory Council, Brad participated in the interview process for hiring a new Environmental Quality Manager for the City.

Two of Brad's articles were cited:

April 2007

Brad's article, Can Plaintiffs Use Multinational Environmental Treaties as Customary International Law to Sue Under the Alien Tort Statute?, was accepted for publication in the Utah Law Review.

March 2007

Brad's article, Rewarding Defendant Cooperation under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Judges vs. Prosecutors, 26 Crim. L. Bull. 399 (1990), was cited in F. Lee Bailey & Kenneth J. Fishman, Handling Narcotic and Drug Cases (LexisNexis, 2007 Supp.).

January 2008

Brad published Title VI and the Warren County Protests, 1 Golden Gate Envtl. L. Rev. ___ (2007).

Several of Brad's articles were cited:

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