Joseph P. Tomain

Contact Information

Courses

  • Contracts
  • Government Regulation
  • Introduction to Law
  • Law, Literature & Philosophy
  • Research Seminar: Energy Policy

Education

  • BA, University of Notre Dame
  • JD, The George Washington University

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Areas of Interest

  • Contracts
  • Energy Law and Regulation
  • Law and Literature
  • Regulatory Policy

Joseph P. Tomain
Dean Emeritus and the Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law


Publications

Presentations

  • Law, Language, Energy and the Environment, Second Annual Energy Summer Conference, Vermont Law School (July 20, 2007)
  • Environmental Stewardship: An Exploratory Program for Religious Leaders, Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, Bozeman, Montana (June 24-27, 2007)
  • Imagining a Public Interest Energy Law Firm, Plenary Session, 13th Annual University of Florida Public Interest Environmental Conference (March 2, 2007)
  • Two Thumbs on the Scale, High Temps, High Tech Solutions to the Energy and Environmental Equation, Vermont Law School (October 13, 2006)
  • Katrina' Energy Agenda: One Year Later, Katrina Consequences: What Has the Government Learned? Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (August 25, 2006)
  • Lawyers, Judges, Law and the Humanities, Harris Manchester Law Society, Oxford University (March 8, 2006)
  • Eminent Domain in Kelo and Norwood, The Use of Eminent Domain for Economic Redevelopment: A Necessary Tool for Cities—Or an Unconstitutional Trampling of Property Rights? University of Dayton School of Law (September 26, 2005)
  • Nuclear Futures, Symposium Environmental Regulation, Energy, and Market Entry, Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum (November 19, 2004)
  • Humanities, Ethics, and the Legal Profession: Teaching Ethics to the Public, Private and Professional Sectors, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice & Governance, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia (April 7-8, 2001)
  • A Code of One's Own, Notre Dame Legal Education Symposium (March 23, 2001)
  • Ethics and Professionalism in a Changing Legal Profession, Dinsmore & Shohl Continuing Legal Education Program (December 11, 1997)
  • Six Ineluctable Takings Rules, National Business Institute Seminar on Real EstateLitigation in Ohio (July 9, 1997)
  • The Revolution in the Regulation of Energy, Ninth Institute for Natural Law Resources Teachers, Park City, Utah (May 16-18, 1997)
  • Law Schools in Transition?, Judicial Conference of the Sixth Circuit, Asheville, North Carolina (June 28-July 1, 1995)
  • The Brave New World of Energy Law:Domestic Electricity Regulation, Eighth Institute for Natural Resources Law Teachers, Reno, Nevada (June 2-4, 1995)
  • Recent Developments in Contract Law Teaching in the United States, Soochow University, Republic of China (July 13-15, 1992)
  • Distributional Consequences of Environmental Regulation, ABA Standing Committee on Environmental Law, Williamsburg, Virginia (May 15, 1992)
  • The Politics of Evaluation, Annual Meeting of The Law and Society Association, Berkeley, California (May 31, 1990)
  • Electricity and the Environment, Annual Northeast International Committee on Energy Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia (April 24-26, 1990)
  • A Legal Perspective on The Nuclear Option: The American Experience, Institute on National Resource Law, Ottawa, Canada (May 10-12, 1989)
  • Land Use Mediation for Planners, Annual Meeting, American Planners Association, Denver, Colorado (1989)