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2024

Articles

• The Major Questions Doctrine’s Upside for Combatting Climate Change, 32 New York University Environmental Law Journal 1 (2024) (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

2023

Articles

• Cooling Infrastructure, Cooling Security, and a Warming World, 118 Northwestern University Law Review Online 66 (2023).

Working Papers

• The Public Claim on Private Property, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-38 (2023).

2022

Articles

• Climate Change Adaptation as a Problem of Inequality and Possible Legal Reforms, 117 Northwestern University Law Review 71 (2022).

• Public Nuisance Law When Politics Fails, 83 Ohio State Law Journal 61 (2022).

• An Early Intervention Approach to Reducing Evictions and Improving Child Welfare, 42 Children’s Legal Rights Journal 79 (2022).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• David Dana: Illinois, Other States Should Use Supreme Court’s Own Logic to Fight Climate Change Aggressively, Chicago Tribune (July 19, 2022).

2021

Books

• Climate Geoengineering: Science, Law and Governance, co-edited by David Dana, Wil Burns & Simon James Nicholson, edited by David Dana, Wil Burns & Simon James Nicholson (2021).

Articles

• Regulating During Emergencies, 116 Northwestern University Law Review Online 223 (2021) (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

• It’s Time to Treat Voting Rights Like Climate Change, Slate (June 12, 2021) (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

Contributions to Books

• Introduction, in Climate Geoengineering: Science, Law and Governance 1 (David Dana, Wil Burns & Simon James Nicholson eds. 2021) (Co-authored by: Wil Burns & Simon James Nicholson).

• Geoengineering and the Question of Weakened Resolve, in Climate Geoengineering: Science, Law and Governance 165 (David Dana, Wil Burns & Simon James Nicholson eds. 2021).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Will the Supreme Court Abandon Federalism to Defeat Pro-Labor Regulation?, The Hill (Apr. 5, 2021) (Co-authored by: Claire Priest).

2020

Articles

• Fracking as a Test of the Demsetz Property Rights Thesis, 71 Hastings Law Journal 845 (2020) (Co-authored by: Hannah J. Wiseman).

• Not Just a Procedural Case: The Substantive Implications of Knick for State Property Law and Federal Takings Doctrine, 47 Fordham Urban Law Journal 591 (2020).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• COVID Is a Public Nuisance. Let’s Treat It as Such., Crain’s Chicago Business (Nov. 5, 2020) (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

2019

Articles

• Property’s Edges, 60 Boston College Law Review 753 (2019) (Co-authored by: Nadav Shoked).

• Framing of Geoengineering Affects Support for Climate Change Mitigation, 13 Environmental Communication 300 (2019) (Co-authored by: Kaitlin T. Raimi, Alexander Maki & Michael P. Vandenbergh).

• Regulation, Public Attitudes, and Private Governance, 16 Journal Of Empirical Legal Studies 69 (February 2019) (Co-authored by: Janice Nadler).

2018

Articles

• Judicial Review in an Age of Hyper-polarization and Alternative Facts, 9 San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law 23 (2018) (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

Working Papers

• Geoengineering and the Question of Weakened Resolve, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 18-04, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-04 (SSRN 2018).

2017

Articles

• Soda Taxes as a Legal and Social Movement, 13 Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 84 (2017) (Co-authored by: Janice Nadler).

• Escaping the Abdication Trap When Cooperative Federalism Fails: Legal Reform After Flint, 44 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1329 (2017).

• An Invisible Crisis in Plain Sight: The Emergence of the “Eviction Economy,” Its Causes, and the Possibilities for Reform in Legal Regulation and Education, 115 Michigan Law Review 935 (2017).

• After Flint: Environmental Justice as Equal Protection, 111 Northwestern University Law Review 93 (2017) (Co-authored by: Deborah Tuerkheimer).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Secret Court Settlements Are a Scourge on Society, Washington Post (Dec. 14, 2017).

• Trump and Big Auto Hitting Self-Destruct Button, Chicago Sun-times (Apr. 4, 2017) (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

Working Papers

• Escaping the Abdication Trap When Cooperative Federalism Fails: Legal Reform After Flint, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 17-08 (2017).

2016

Articles

• A “Switching Costs” Approach: EPA’s Clean Power Plan as a Model For Allocating the Burden of Carbon Reductions Among Nations, San Diego Journal of Climate and Energy Law (forthcoming 2016) (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

• Incentivizing Municipalities to Adapt to Climate Change: Takings Liability and FEMA Reforms as Possible Solutions, 43 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 281 (2016).

2015

Articles

• A Market Approach to Regulating the Energy Revolution: Assurance Bonds, Insurance, and the Certain and Uncertain Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing, 45 Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis 10746 (August 2015).

• Why Do We Have the Parcel-as-a-Whole Rule?, 39 Vermont Law Review 617 (2015).

• Public, by Necessity, 13 Seattle Journal For Social Justice 341 (2014) (Co-authored by: Nadav Shoked).

2014

Articles

• A Climate Change Lens on the Dormant Commerce Clause, Lifecycle GHGTaxes, and In-State RPS Requirements, 5 San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law 69-92 (2014) (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

• A Market Approach to Regulating the Energy Revolution: Assurance Bonds, Insurance, and the Certain and Uncertain Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing, 99 Iowa Law Review 1523-1593 (2014) (Co-authored by: Hannah J. Wiseman).

2013

Working Papers

• A Climate Change Lens On the Dormant Commerce Clause (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

• A Market Approach to Regulating the Energy Revolution: Assurance Bonds, Insurance, and the Certain and Uncertain Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing (Co-authored by: Hannah Jacobs Wiseman).

2012

Articles

• Why Mortgage “Formalities” Matter, 24 Loyola Consumer Law Review 505-523 (2012).

• Where the Extraction Frontier Meets the Safety Frontier: Deepwater Horizon, Safety Cases, and NEPA-as-Contract, 6 Environmental & Energy Law & Policy Journal 199-215 (2011) (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

Working Papers

• Why Mortgage “Formalities” Matter (2012) 3361.

2011

Books

• The Nanotechnology Challenge: Creating Legal Institutions For Uncertain Risks (Cambridge University Press 2012).

Articles

• Reconceptualizing NEPA to Avoid the Next Preventable Disaster, 38 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 219-245 (2011) (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

• When Less Liability May Mean More Precaution: The Case of Nanotechnology, 28 Ucla Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 153-199 (2010).

2010

Articles

• Three Obstacles to the Promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility by Means of the Alien Tort Claims Act: The Sosa Court’s Incoherent Conception of the Law of Nations, the “Purposive” Action Requirement for Aiding and Abetting, and the State Action Requirement for Primary Liability, 21 Fordham Environmental Law Review 79-121 (2010) (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

• The Foreclosure Crisis and the Antifragmentation Principle in State Property Law, 77 University of Chicago Law Review 97-120 (2010).

Working Papers

• Can the Law Track Scientific Risk and Technological Innovation?: The Problem of Regulatory Definitions and Nanotechnology .

• Three Obstacles to the Promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility by Means of the Alien Tort Claims Act: The Sosa Court’s Incoherent Conception of the Law of Nations, the ‘Purposive’ Action Requirement for Aiding and Abetting, and the State Action Requirement for Primary Liability (Co-authored by: Michael Barsa).

2009

Articles

• Exclusionary Eminent Domain , 17 Supreme Court Economic Review 7 7 (2009).

Working Papers

• The Contextual Rationality of the Precautionary Principle .

• Valuing Foreign Lives and Civilizations in Cost-Benefit Analysis: The Case of the United States and Climate Change Policy .

• When Less Liability May Mean More Precaution: The Case of Nanotechnology .

• Reforming Section 10 and the Habitat Conservation Plan Program .

• The Foreclosure Crisis and the Anti-Fragmentation Principle in State Property Law.

2008

Articles

• Democratizing the Law of Federal Preemption, 102 Northwestern University Law Review 507-550 (2008).

• The Mismatch between Public Nuisance Law and Global Warming.

• Reframing Eminent Domain: Unsupported Advocacy, Ambiguous Economics, and the Case for a New Public Use Test , 32 Vermont Law Review 129-169 (2007).

2007

Articles

• Why the Blight Distinction in Post-Kelo Reform Does Matter, 102 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 30 (2007).

• The Law and Expressive Meaning of Condemning the Poor After Kelo, 101 Northwestern University Law Review 365-382 (2007).

2006

Articles

• The Law and Expressive Meaning of Condemning the Poor After Kelo, 2006 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 2.

• Adequacy of Representation After Stephenson: A Rawlsian/Behavioral Economics Approach to Class Action Settlements, 55 Emory Law Journal 279-346 (2006).

• State Brownfields Programs as Laboratories of Democracy?, 14 New York University Environmental Law Journal 86-107 (2005).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Clean water is symbol of the power of the people, San Francisco Chronicle (July 23, 2006 ) (Co-authored by: Andrew Koppelman ).

2005

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• David Dana is the panelist for Yes, We'll Adapt—While People Die, Chicago Sun Times (October 9, 2005).

2004

Articles

• Existence Value and Federal Preservation Regulation, 28 Harvard Environmental Law Review 343-399 (2004).

• Secret Settlements and Practice Restrictions Aid Lawyer Cartels and Cause Other Harms, 2003 University of Illinois Law Review 1217-1241 (Co-authored by: Susan P. Koniak).

2003

Articles

• A Behavioral Economic Defense of the Precautionary Principle, 97 Northwestern University Law Review 1315-1345 (2003).

2002

Books

• Property: Takings (Foundation Press 2002) (Co-authored by: Thomas Merrill).

Articles

• Public Interest and Private Lawyers: Toward a Normative Evaluation of Parens Patriae Litigation by Contingency Fee, 51 Depaul Law Review 315-330 (2001).

2001

Articles

• Rethinking the Puzzle of Escalating Penalties for Repeat Offenders, 110 Yale Law Journal 733-783 (2001) .

Working Papers

• Rethinking the Puzzle of Escalating Penalties for Repeat Offenders (Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2000) .

2000

Articles

• The New "Contractarian" Paradigm in Environmental Regulation, University of Illinois Law Review 35-59 (2000) .

• Bargaining in the Shadow of Democracy, 14 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 473-559 (1999) (Co-authored by: Susan P. Koniak).