Professor of Law and of Public and Environmental Affairs; Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow; Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Political Science
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Goldilocks Deference (with Elizabeth Baldwin and Katie Meehan), 18 JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES 167 (2021). [HeinOnline]
Combining the IAD and SES Frameworks (with G. Epstein and M.D. McGinnis), 13 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE COMMONS 1 (2019). [Journal website].
Grandfathering: Environmental Uses and Impacts (with M. Damon, E. Ostrom and T. Sterner), 12 REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY (Published online Jan. 2019).
Institutional Analysis for New Public Governance Scholars (with E. Baldwin and T. Chen), PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW (Published online Nov. 2018).
Environmental Instrument Choice in a Non-Linear World (with K.A. Paulson Gjerde and P. Z. Grossman), JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY (Published online Aug. 2018).
Laws, Norms, and the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework, 13 JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS 829 (2017).
The Polycentric Turn: A Case Study of Kenya's Evolving Legal Regime for Irrigation Waters (with Stefan Carpenter and Elizabeth Baldwin), 57 NATURAL RESOURCES JOURNAL 1 (2017).
Polycentric Governance and Irrigation Reform in Kenya (with Elizabeth Baldwin, et. al.), 29 GOVERNANCE: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY, ADMINISTRATION, AND INSTITUTIONS 207 (2016).
Advantages of a Polycentric Approach to Climate Change Policy, 5 NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE 114 (2015).
"Economic Property Rights" as "Nonsense upon Stilts": A Comment on Hodgson, 11 JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS 725 (2015). [SSRN]
Contextualizing the Influence of Social Norms, Collective Action on Social-ecological Systems (with Tom P. Evans), 6 JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES POLICY RESEARCH 259 (2014).
Digging Deeper into Hardin's Pasture: The Complex Institutional Structure of 'The Tragedy of the Commons' (with Graham Epstein and Michael D. McGinnis), 10 JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS 353 (2014). [SSRN]
The Law and Economics Approach to Property, 3 PROPERTY LAW REVIEW 212 (2014). [SSRN]
The Varieties of Comparative Institutional Analysis, 2013 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 383 (2013). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Law, Politics, and Cost-Benefit Analysis, 64 ALABAMA LAW REVIEW 91 (2012). [HeinOnline]
From Global to Polycentric Climate Governance, 2 CLIMATE LAW 395 (2011). [SSRN]
Institutions Matter! Why the Herder Problem Is Not a Prisoners' Dilemma (with Peter Z. Grossman), 69 THEORY & DECISION 219 (2010). [SSRN]
Protecting Private Property with Constitutional Judicial Review: A Social Welfare Approach (with Peter Z. Grossman), 5 REVIEW OF LAW AND ECONOMICS 233 (2009). [SSRN]
'Best Practice' Standards for Regulatory Benefit-Cost Analysis, 23 RESEARCH IN LAW AND ECONOMICS 1 (2007). [SSRN] Reprinted in APPLIED BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS (Andrew Schmitz and Richard O. Zerbe, Eds.) Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2008.
Climate Change and Collective Action, 61 CURRENT LEGAL PROBLEMS 229 (2008). [SSRN]
The Stern Review and Its Critics: Implications for the Theory and Practice of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 48 NATURAL RESOURCES JOURNAL 53 (2008). Italian translation in, 4/2007 QA–Rivista dell’Associazione Rossi-Doria 11 (2007). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Climate Change, Adaptation, and Development, 26 UCLA JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY 1 (2007). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Kelo's Legacy, 37 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 10540 (2007).
Political Institutions, Judicial Review, and Private Property: A Comparative Institutional Analysis, 15 SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW 141 (2007). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Uncertainty, Insurance and the Learned Hand Formula (with Peter Z. Grossman and Reed Cearley), 5 LAW, PROBABILITY AND RISK 1 (2006). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Why Kelo is not Good News for Local Planners and Developers, 22 GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 803 (2006). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
The Law and Economics of Development and Environmental: An Introduction to the Symposium, 38 INDIANA LAW REVIEW 577 (2005). [HeinOnline]
Comments on Paper by Jonathan Remy Nash and Richard L. Revesz, 20 RESEARCH IN LAW AND ECONOMICS: An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Environmental Policy: Issues in Institutional Design (T. Swanson & R. Zerbe, Eds.) 379 (2002).
The Meaning of Property Rights: Law vs. Economics? (with Peter Z. Grossman), 78 LAND ECONOMICS 317 (2002). [SSRN]
Toward a Total Cost Approach to Environmental Instrument Choice (with Peter Z. Grossman), 20 RESEARCH IN LAW AND ECONOMICS: An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Environmental Policy: Issues in Institutional Design (T. Swanson & R. Zerbe, Eds.) 223 (2002). [SSRN]
‘An Unqualified Human Good’: E.P. Thompson and the Rule of Law, 28 JOURNAL OF LAW & SOCIETY 177 (2001). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Environmental Instrument Choice in a Second-Best World: A Comment on Professor Richards, 10 DUKE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY FORUM 287 (2000). [HeinOnline]
The Importance of Being Comparative: The M. Dale Palmer Professorship Inaugural Lecture, 33 INDIANA LAW REVIEW 921 (2000). [HeinOnline]
Clearing the Air: Four Propositions About Property Rights and Environmental Protection, 10 DUKE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY FORUM 103 (1999). [HeinOnline]
When is Command-and-Control Efficient? Institutions, Technology, and the Comparative Efficiency of Alternative Regulatory Regimes for Environmental Protection (with Peter Z. Grossman), 1999 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 887 (1999). [HeinOnline] [SSRN] Reprinted in 32 LAND USE & ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW 509 (2001); in THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COMMAND AND CONTROL IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (G.E. Helfand and P. Berck Eds.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003; in ECONOMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (R. Brooks, Ed.) Cheltenham: Elgar, 2009.
Poland’s 1997 Constitution in Its Historical Context, 1998 SAINT LOUIS-WARSAW TRANSATLANTIC LAW JOURNAL 1 (1998). [HeinOnline]
Rhetoric, Reality, and the Law of Unfunded Federal Mandates(with Carol Comer), 8 STANFORD LAW & POLICY REVIEW 103 (1997). [HeinOnline]
Accounting for Sustainable Development, 8 FORDHAM ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL 123 (1997). [HeinOnline]
An Outline History of Environmental Law and Administration in Poland, 18 HASTINGS INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW REVIEW 297 (1995). [HeinOnline]
Poland’s Progress: Environmental Protection in a Period of Transition, 2 PARKER SCHOOL JOURNAL OF EAST EUROPEAN LAW 279 (1995). [HeinOnline]
Marxism and the Failure of Environmental Protection in Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R., 17 LEGAL STUDIES FORUM 35 (1993). [HeinOnline]
Debt-Equity Conversions, Debt-for-Nature Swaps, and the Continuing World Debt Crisis, 30 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW 57 (1992). [HeinOnline]
Cleaning Up Kraków: Poland’s Ecological Crisis and the Political Economy of International Environmental Assistance, 2 COLORADO JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY 205 (1991). [HeinOnline]
Liability Rules for Surface Water Drainage: A Simple Economic Analysis, 12 GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 35 (1990). [HeinOnline]
Dr. Milton Freewater, 76 THE OWL 94 (1988).
The Federal Power Act’s Municipal Preference: The Merwin Dam Dispute and Legislative Proposals to Amend Federal Hydro-Licensing Procedures, 7 ENERGY LAW JOURNAL 373 (1986). [HeinOnline]
Reviving the Federal Power Act’s Comprehensive Plan Requirement: A History of Neglect and Prospects for the Future, 16 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 639 (1986). [HeinOnline]
United States v. Pend Oreille County P.U.D. No. 1: A Signal Conflict Between Equal Footing and Aboriginal Indian Title, 16 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 163 (1986). [HeinOnline]
Tribal Bedlands Claims Since Montana v. United States, 6 PUBLIC LAND LAW REVIEW 119 (1985). [HeinOnline]