College of Law

Publications

Book Chapters

• Should State Corporate Law Define Successor Liability?: The Demise of CERCLA's Federal Common Law in William H. Rodgers, Jr., Environmental Law (West, 2nd ed., 2008 Supp.)
• Title VI and Executive Order 12,898 in The Law of Environmental Justice (ABA, 2d ed. 2008) (Michael B. Gerrard & Sheila Foster eds.)
• Civil Remedies in Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (Michael B. Gerrard, ed.) (2007)
• Standing and Remedies in Global Warming (ABA, 2007) (Michael B. Gerrard ed.)
• The Rights of Indigenous Peoples to a Healthy Environment and Use of National Resources Under International Human Rights Law in Effective Strategies for Protecting Human Rights: Economic Sanctions, Use of National Courts, and International Fora and Coercive Power (Ashgate, 2001) (David Barnhizer, ed.)
• Environmental Justice Litigation in Environmental Law Practice Guide (Michael B. Gerrard ed.) (Matthew Bender 1998)
• Public Participation (Chapter 31) and Other Remedial Issues (Chapter 25) in Brownfield's Law and Practice (Michael B. Gerrard ed.) (Matthew Bender 1998)

Articles, Essays & Book Reviews

• Revisiting the Lyons Den: Summers v. Earth Island Institute's Misuse of Lyons' "Realistic Threat" of Harm Standing Test, 42 Ariz. St. L.J. ___ (2010)
• Summers v. Earth Island Institute Rejects Probabilistic Standing, but a "Realistic Threat" of Harm Is a Better Standing Test, 40 Envtl. L. ___ (2010)
• Standing and Future Generations: Does Massachusetts v. EPA Open Standing for Generations to Come?, 34 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2009)
• Standing and Statistical Persons: A Risk-Based Approach to Standing, 36 Ecology L.Q. 665 (2009)
• 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)
• Should States Have Greater Standing Rights than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA's New Standing Tests for States, 49 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1701 (2008)
• After Gonzales v. Raich: Is the Endangered Species Act Constitutional under the Commerce Clause?, 78 U. Colo. L. Rev. 375 (2007)
• Are Public Facilities Different from Private Ones?: Adopting a New Standard of Review for the Dormant Commerce Clause, 60 SMU L. Rev. 157 (2007)
• Can Plaintiffs Use Multinational Environmental Treaties as Customary International Law to Sue under the Alien Tort Statute?, 2007 Utah L. Rev. 1085
• Implementing Rapanos—Will Justice Kennedy's Significant Nexus Test Provide a Workable Standard for Lower Courts, Regulators, and Developers?, 40 Ind. L. Rev. 291 (2007)
• Title VI and the Warren County Protests, 1 Golden Gate Envtl. L. Rev. 73 (2007) (symposium)
• Prudential Standing and the Dormant Commerce Clause: Why the "Zone of Interests" Test Should Not Apply to Constitutional Cases, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 23 (2006)
• Can Administrative Regulations Interpret Rights Enforceable under Section 1983? Why Chevron Deference Survives Sandoval and Gonzaga, 32 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 843 (2005)
• A Scrivener's Error or Greater Protection of the Public: Does the EPA Have the Authority to Delist "Low-Risk" Sources of Carcinogens from Section 112's Maximum Available Control Technology Requirements?, 24 Va. Envtl. L.J. 75 (2005)
• Standing and Global Warming: Is Injury to All Injury to None?, 35 Envtl. Law 1 (2005)
• Are Anti-Retaliation Regulations in Title VI or Title IX Enforceable in a Private Right of Action: Does Sandoval or Sullivan Control This Question?, 35 Seton Hall L. Rev. 47 (2004)
• Can Congress Regulate Intrastate Endangered Species under the Commerce Clause?, 69 Brook. L. Rev. 923 (2004)
• The Murky Future of the Clean Water Act after SWANCC, 30 Ecology L.Q. 811 (2003)
• Suing under § 1983: The Future after Gonzaga v. Doe, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 1417 (2003)
• Are Title VI's Disparate Impact Regulations Valid?, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 517 (2002) (symposium)
• Legal Context: Reading Statutes in Light of Prevailing Legal Precedent, 34 Ariz. St. L.J. 815 (2002)
• 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)
• South Camden Citizens In Action v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection: Will § 1983 Save Title VI Disparate Impact Suits?, 32 Envtl. L. Rep. 10454 (2002)
• Proving an Environmental Justice Case: Determining an Appropriate Comparison Population, 20 Va. Envtl. L.J. 365 (2001)
• A Survey of Federal Agency Response to President Clinton's Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice, 31 Envtl. L. Rep. 11133 (2001) (with Denis Binder, et al.)
• Using § 1983 to Enforce Title VI's Section 602 Regulations, 49 U. Kan. L. Rev. 321 (2001)
• The Draft Title VI Recipient and Revised Investigation Guidances: Too Much Discretion for EPA and a More Difficult Standard for Complainants?, 30 Envtl. L. Rep. 11144 (Envtl. L. Inst.) (Dec. 2000)
• Reforming State Brownfield Programs to Comply with Title VI, 24 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 115 (2000)
• Should State Corporate Law Define Successor Liability?: The Demise of CERCLA's Federal Common Law, 68 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1157 (2000)
• Environmental Justice and Title VI: Making Recipient Agencies Justify Their Siting Decisions, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 787 (1999)
• Is There a Private Cause of Action Under EPA's Title VI Regulations?: The Need to Empower Environmental Justice Plaintiffs, 24 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 1 (1999)
• The EPA's Project XL and Other Regulatory Reform Initiatives: The Need for Legislative Authorization, 25 Ecology L.Q. 1 (1998)
• Textualism's Selective Canons of Statutory Construction: Reinvigorating Individual Liberties, Legislative Authority and Deference to Executive Agencies, 86 Ky. L.J. 527 (1998)
• American Mining Congress v. Army Department: Ignoring Chevron and the Clean Water Act's Broad Purposes, 25 N. Ky. L. Rev. 51 (1997)
• Is a Textualist Approach to Statutory Interpretation Pro-Environmentalist?: Why Pragmatic Agency Decisionmaking Is Better than Judicial Literalism, 53 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1231 (1996)
• Protecting the Environment for Future Generations: A Proposal for a "Republican" Superagency, 5 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 444 (1996)
• Environmental Justice and Discriminatory Siting: Risk-Based Representation and Equitable Compensation, 56 Ohio St. L.J. 329 (1995)
• What Comes after Technology: Using an "Exceptions Process" to Improve Residual Risk Regulation of Hazardous Air Pollutants, 13 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 263 (1994)
• Superfund Contractors and Agency Capture, 2 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 34 (1993)
• Preventing Bhopal: "Dead Zones" and Toxic Death Risk Index Taxes, 53 Ohio St. L.J. 761 (1992)
• The Two-Headed Dragon of Siting and Cleaning Up Hazardous Waste Dumps: Can Economic Incentives or Mediation Slay the Monster?, 19 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 239 (1991)
• Rewarding Defendant Cooperation under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Judges vs. Prosecutors, 26 Crim. L. Bull. 399 (1990)

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)