BOOKS

1. WILDLIFE AS PROPERTY OWNERS: A NEW CONCEPTION OF ANIMAL RIGHTS (University of Chicago Press, 2020).

2. DEPOLARIZED: HOW STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATIONS ARE BREAKING GRIDLOCK (Columbia University Press, under advance contract, forthcoming 2025).

3. WILDFIRE: LAW & ECONOMICS POLICY PERSPECTIVES (Routledge, 2012) (co-editor Dean Lueck).

4. RIGHTS OF NATURE: CREATING INTERSPECIES EQUITY (finished manuscript, under review at several presses).

5. RADICALLY REIMAGINING: THE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE (draft manuscript of edited volume).

LAW Journal ARTICLES

• Law Through the Eyes of Animals, Journal of Law & Policy (forthcoming 2024) (with co-authors).

• Unregulated Climate Manipulation, Georgetown Envtl. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024) (with Monika Ehrman).

• The Tyranny of Baselines, 54 ENVTL. L. REPT. 10219 (2024) (with co-authors).

• Identifying Contemporary Rights of Nature in the United States, 95 S. CAL. L. REV. 1439 (2022).

• Adapting To a 4°C World, 52 ENVTL. L. REPT. 10211 (2022) (with coauthors).

• Making Recreation on Public Lands More Accessible, 97 Notre Dame L. Rev. Reflection 35 (2022) (with Caitlin Doak).

• Stakeholder Dynamics in Land Development Projects , 50 J. LEGAL STUD. S53 (2021).+

• Humans as Animals, 2021 UTAH L. REV. 185 (2021).

• Stakeholder Collaboration as an Alternative to Cost-Benefit Analysis, 2019 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 665 (2020).

• Biodiversity Loss, Viewed through the Lens of Mismatched Property Rights, 14 Int’l J. Commons 650 (2020) (with Challie Facemire).+

• An Introduction to Overlapping Resources and Mismatched Property Rights, 14 Int’l J. Commons 553 (2020) (with Dean Lueck and William Christmas).+

• Virtual Parceling, 14 Int’l J. Commons 597 (2020) (with Bryan Leonard).+

• Expropriating Habitat, 43 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 77 (2019).*

• Agency Engagement with Stakeholder Collaborations, in Wildfire Policy and Beyond, 51 ARIZ. ST. L.J. 437 (2019).*

  • Reviewed by Eric Biber, We Need to Work Together: Understanding Federal Agency Collaboration, JOTWELL (Feb. 9, 2021).

• Agency Coordination of Private Action: The Role of Relational Contracting, 6 TEX. A&M. L. REV. 229 (2018) (symposium).

• Animal Property Rights, 89 U. COLO. L. REV. 809 (2018).

• Using Takings to Undo Givings, 10 N.Y.U. J. L. & LIBERTY 649 (2017) (symposium).

• Settling for Natural Resource Damages, 40 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 211 (2016).**

  • Translated into Mandarin and reprinted in CHINESE ENVTL. & RESOURCES L. REV., 环境资源法论丛 (2018).

  • Reprinted in 54 ROCKY MNT. MIN. L. FDN. J. (2017).

  • Reviewed by Steve Gold, The Real World, JOTWELL (Aug. 18, 2017).

• The Short-Term Temptations and Long-Term Risks of Environmental Catastrophism, 56 JURIMETRICS J. 234 (2016) (co-author Gary E. Marchant) (symposium). +

• Contracting for Control of Landscape-Level Resources, 100 IOWA L. REV. 2507 (2015) (co-author Dean Lueck).*

• Information Flooding, 48 IND. L. REV. 755 (2015).

• New Governance and Industry Culture, 88 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 2515 (2013).

• Backfired! Distorted Incentives in Wildfire Suppression, 31 UTAH ENVTL. L. REV. 155 (2011).

• A Modern Overview of Wildfire Law, 21 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 445 (2010).

* Selected as one of the top 15-20 papers nationally in the year of publication through a process of peer review in one or more of the following fields: Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Natural Resources, Land Use.

+ Peer reviewed.

Other Publications

1. Book Chapter: Unregulated Climate Manipulation, (with Monika Ehrman) (forthcoming 2023).

2. Book Chapter: Law Through the Eyes of Animals, (with multiple co-authors) (forthcoming 2023).

3. Op-Ed, Do Elephants Have Habeus Corpus Rights? No, But they Could and Should, SF Chronicle, May 19, 2022 (co-authored with Matthew Liberman).

4. Amicus Curiae Brief, The Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. on Behalf of Happy v. Breheny (co-authored with Matthew Liberman).

5. Nautilus: Should Marine Species own the High Seas? To Save The Ocean, Give Property Rights to the Creatures Living There

6. Guest Editor for International Journal of the Commons Volume: Overlapping Resources and Mismatched Property Rights (2020).

7. Academic Consultant Author for Government Agency Report: Stakeholder Collaborations for Managing Land & Natural Resources, Report for the Administrative Conference of the United States (2017).

8. Book Chapter: The Role of Norms in Wildfire Suppression, in WILDFIRE: LAW & ECONOMICS POLICY PERSPECTIVES (Routledge, 2012).

9. Book Chapter: Academic Administrators and the Challenge of Social-Networking Websites, in THE OFFENSIVE INTERNET (Harvard University Press, 2011) (Saul Levmore & Martha Naussbaum, eds.) (co-author Souvik Saha).

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