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HARI M. OSOFSKY

2023

Articles

• Litigating Climate Change Infrastructure Impacts, 118 Northwestern University Law Review Online 149 (2023).

2022

Books

• Energy Law and Policy, 3rd ed. (2022) (Co-authored by: Lincoln L. Davies, Alexandra B. Klass, Joe P. Tomain & Elizabeth J. Wilson).

Articles

• Roundtable Three: Environmental Law Education—Preparing for Environmental Practice, 46 Vermont Law Review 604 (2022) (Co-authored by: Cale Jaffe, Helen Kang).

• Pathbreaker in the Development of International Criminal Law and Mentor: A Tribute to Professor Leila Nadya Sadat, 21 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 7 (2022).

• “The Grass is Not Always Greener” Revisited: Climate Change Regulation Amid Political Polarization, 39 Yale Journal on Regulation 814 (2022) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel).

2021

Books

• American Classics in International Law: International Environmental Law, edited by Michael Reisman (forthcoming 2022).

Articles

• Green Boardrooms?, 53 Connecticut Law Review 335 (forthcoming 2021) (Co-authored by: Brett McDonnell, Jacqueline Peel & Anita Foerster).

Contributions to Books

• Subnational Actors & International Environmental Law, in Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (Lavanya Rajamani & Jacqueline Peel eds. forthcoming 2021).

2020

Articles

• Climate Change Litigation, 16 Annual Review of Law & Social Science 21 (2020) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel).

• Governing the Energy Transition: The Role of Corporate Law Tools, 36 Environmental & Planning Law Journal 459 (2020) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel, Anita Foerster, Brett McDonnell).

• The Geography of Emerging Global South Climate Change Litigation, 114 American Journal of International Law Unbound 61 (2020).

Contributions to Books

• ‘Next Generation’ Climate Change Litigation in Australia, in Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific (Jolene Lin & Douglas A. Kysar eds. 2020) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel & Anita C. Foerster).

2019

Articles

• Energy Re-Investment, 94 Indiana Law Journal 635 (2019) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel, Brett McDonnell & Anita C. Foerster).

Contributions to Books

• Litigation as a Climate Regulatory Tool, in International Judcial Practice on the Environment: Questions of Legitimacy (Christina Voight ed. 2019) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel).

2018

Books

• Energy Law and Policy, 2nd ed. (2018) (Co-authored by: Lincoln L. Davies, Alexandra B. Klass, Joe Tomain & Elizabeth Wilson).

Articles

• Shaping the ‘Next Generation’ of Climate Change Litigation in Australia, 41 Melbourne University Law Review 793 (2018) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel, & Anita C. Foerster).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Legal Ed’s Futures: No. 59 (Hari Osofsky): Pathways Forward, PrawfsBlawg (Apr. 9, 2018).

• Legal Ed’s Futures: No. 32 (Hari Osofsky): Reimagining Law and STEM, PrawfsBlawg (Mar. 26, 2018).

• Legal Ed’s Futures: No. 24 (Hari Osofsky): Moving Forward Together, PrawfsBlawg (Mar. 19, 2018).

• Legal Ed’s Futures: No. 8 (Hari Osofsky): Legal Education for a Changing Society, PrawfsBlawg (Mar. 8, 2018).

2017

Articles

• A Rights Turn in Climate Change Litigation?, 7 Transnational Environmental Law 37 (2017) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel).

• Keeping Good Company in the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy? An Evaluation of Climate Risk Disclosure Practices in Australia, 35 Company & Securities Law Journal 154 (2017) (Co-authored by: Anita C. Foerster, Jacqueline Peel & Brett McDonnell).

• Environment: Law for a Healthy Planet, Book Review of Client Earth by James Thornton & Martin Goodman, Nature (May 17, 2017).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• The Pull of Energy Markets – and Legal Challenges – Will Blunt Plan to Roll Back EPA Carbon Rule, The Conversation (Oct. 13, 2017) (Co-authored by: Hannah Wiseman).

2016

Articles

• The Grass Is Not Always Greener: Congressional Dysfunction, Executive Action, and Climate Change in Comparative Perspective, 91 Chicago-kent Law Review 139 (2016) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel).

• Arctic Energy Cooperation, 49 UC Davis Law Review 1431 (2016) (Co-authored by: Jessica Shadian & Sara L. Fechtelkotter).

• Regional Energy Governance and U.S. Carbon Emissions, 43 Ecology Law Quarterly 143 (2016) (Co-authored by: Hannah J. Wiseman).

• Energy Partisanship, 65 Emory Law Journal 695 (2016) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel).

Contributions to Books

• Polycentrism and Climate Change, in Climate Change Law (Daniel Farber & Marjan Peeters eds. 2016) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel).

• Preventing and Responding to Arctic Offshore Drilling Disasters: The Role of Hybrid Cooperation, in The Role of International Environmental Law in Disaster Risk Reduction (Jacqueline Peel & David Fisher eds. 2016) (Co-authored by: Jessica Shadian & Sara L. Fechtelkotter).

2015

Books

• Climate Change Litigation: Regulatory Pathways to Cleaner Energy? (2015) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel).

Articles

• Sue to Adapt?, 99 Minnesota Law Review 2177 (2015) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel).

• Rethinking the Geography of Local Climate Action: Multi-Level Network Participation in Metropolitan Regions, 2015 Utah Law Review 173.

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Transparency and Access at the Paris Negotiations, Opinio Juris (Dec. 10, 2015).

• Success in the Paris Climate Negotiations in Broader Context, Opinio Juris (Dec. 8, 2015).

2014

Books

• Energy Law and Policy (2014) (Co-authored by: Lincoln L. Davies, Alexandra B. Klass, Joe Tomain & Elizabeth Wilson).

Articles

• Hybrid Energy Governance, 2014 University of Illinois Law Review 1 (Co-authored by: Hannah J. Wiseman).

• Complex Value Choices at the Environment-Energy Interface, 3 Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law 261 (2014).

• The Geography of Solving “Global” Environmental Problems: Reflections on Polycentric Efforts to Address Climate Change, 58 New York Law School Law Review 777 (2013-14).

Contributions to Books

• Federalism, Institutional Design, and Environmental Compliance Possibilities for Hybrid Mechanisms, in Next Generation Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (LeRoy C. Paddock and Jessica A. Wentz eds. 2014) (Co-authored by: Hannah J. Wiseman).

2013

Articles

• Litigation’s Regulatory Pathways and the Administrative State: Lessons from U.S. and Australian Climate Change Governance, 25 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 207 (2013) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel).

• The Role of Litigation in Multilevel Climate Change Governance: Possibilities for a Lower Carbon Future?, 30 Environmental & Planning Law Journal 303 (2013) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel).

• Climate Change Litigation’s Regulatory Pathways: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Australia, 35 Law & Policy 150 (2013) (Co-authored by: Jacqueline Peel).

• Dynamic Energy Federalism, 72 Maryland Law Review 773 (2013) (Co-authored by: Hannah J. Wiseman).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Addressing the Complexity of Climate Change’s Human Cost: A Review of Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change by Andrew T. Guzman, Opinio Juris (June 21, 2013).

2012

Books

• Climate Change Law and Policy (2012) (Co-authored by: Lesley K. McAlliste).

Articles

• Suburban Climate Change Efforts: Possibilities for Small and Nimble Cities Participating in State, Regional, National, and International Networks, 22 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 35 (2012).

• Environmental Justice and the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, 20 New York University Environmental Law Journal 99 (2012) (Co-authored by: Kate Baxter-Kauf, Bradley Hammer, Ann Mailander, Brett Mares, Amy Pikovsky, Andrew Whitney & Laura Wilson).

• Mapping International Environmental Law: A Review of The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunée & Ellen Hey, eds., 2007), 106 American Journal of International Law 715 (2012).

• Keith Aoki—Darth Remainder, Duck, and Ninja for Social Justice: A Model of Being There for People in Moments of Vulnerability, 45 UC Davis Law Review 1699 (2012).

• The Geography of Moo Ha Ha: Keith Aoki’s Contributions to Critical Geography, 90 Oregon Law Review 1233 (2012).

• Litigation’s Role in the Path of U.S. Federal Climate Change Regulation: Implications of AEP v. Connecticut, 46 Valparaiso University Law Review 447 (2012).

Contributions to Books

• Complexities of Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on Indigenous Peoples through International Law Petitions: A Case Study of the Inuit Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, in Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies (Randall S. Abate & Elizabeth Kronk eds. 2012).

• Suburban Climate Change Efforts in Minnesota: Implications for Multi-Level Strategies, in Local Climate Change Law: Environmental Regulation in Cities and Other Localities (Benjamin R. Richardson ed. 2012).

• Dispute Resolution Processes, in International Law in the Era of Climate Change (Rosemary Rayfuse & Shirley V. Scott eds. 2012).

• The Creation of the International Law of Climate Change: Complexities of Sub-State Actors, in Non State Actors, Soft Law, and Protective Regimes: From the Margins 355 (Cecilia M. Bailliet ed. 2012).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Berman Book Symposium: Multiscalar Legal Pluralism and Justice, Opinio Juris (June 20, 2012).

• ASIL Cable on WILIG Luncheon: Internationalization of Law: Diversity, Perplexity, Complexity, Thurs., Mar. 29, 2012, 1:30 pm, IntLawGrrls (Mar. 29, 2012).

• ASIL Cable on New Voices I: Harmonizing Armed Conflict, Thursday, Mar. 29, 2012, 11:30 am, IntLawGrrls (Mar. 29, 2012).

• Cheng Book Roundtable: The Importance of Perspective – Reflections on Additional Frontiers, Opinio Juris (Mar. 16, 2012).

• President Obama's State of the Union Address, Energy, and Climate Change, IntLawGrrls (Jan. 25, 2012).

2011

Articles

• Multidimensional Governance and the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, 63 Florida Law Review 1077 (2011).

• The Role of Climate Change Litigation in Establishing the Scale of Energy Regulation, 101 Annals of the Association of American Geographers 775 (2011).

• Diagonal Federalism and Climate Change: Implications for the Obama Administration, 62 Alabama Law Review 237 (2011).

• Climate Change and Crises of International Law: Possibilities for Geographic Reenvisioning, 44 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 423 (2011).

• AEP v. Connecticut’s Implications for the Future of Climate Change Litigation, 121 Yale Law Journal Online 101 (2011).

Contributions to Books

• Technology Transfer and Climate Change, in Sustainable Technology Transfer: A Guide to Global Aid and Trade Development (Hans Henrik Lidgard, Jeffery Atik & Tu Thanh Nguyen eds. 2011).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• The Big Picture after the Durban Climate Change Negotiations, IntLawGrrls (Dec. 11, 2011).

• The Urgency of Now--Why We Need to Stop Fighting about Climate Change and Get Serious about Energy Transition, IntLawGrrls (Nov. 29, 2011).

• Being There When People Are Vulnerable: Reflections on Keith Aoki, IntLawGrrls (Oct. 3, 2011).

• Call for Papers: The Institute for Transnational Arbitration's 1st Annual Winter Forum, IntLawGrrls (Sept. 28, 2011).

• Climate Change Versus Clean Energy: How Can We Move Forward?, IntLawGrrls (Sept. 24, 2011).

• Implications of Today’s Supreme Court Decision in AEP v. Connecticut for Climate Change Regulation, IntLawGrrls (Sept. 24, 2011).

• Darth Remainder, Ducks, and Ninjas: A Thank You to Keith Aoki, IntLawGrrls (Apr. 28, 2011).

2010

Articles

• Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Reflections on Litigation over Oil Extraction and Rights Violations in Nigeria, 1 Journal of Human Rights & The Environment 189 (2010).

• The Continuing Importance of Climate Change Litigation, 1 Climate Law 3 (2010).

• Multiscalar Governance and Climate Change: Reflections on the Role of States and Cities at Copenhagen, 25 Maryland Journal of International Law 64 (2010).

• The Future of Environmental Law and Complexities of Scale: Federalism Experiments with Climate Change Under the Clean Air Act, 32 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 79 (2010).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Exciting International Law Events in Minneapolis This Week, IntLawGrrls (Nov. 14, 2010).

• Climate Change: A View from South Carolina, IntLawGrrls (Nov. 13, 2010).

• Rule of Law, Environmental Clinics, Justice, and Academic Freedom, IntLawGrrls (May 15, 2010).

• Invitation: Second Annual W&L School of Law Energy, Climate, and Environment Symposium This Friday, IntLawGrrls (Mar. 17, 2010).

• Go On! Upcoming Symposium on Investment Treaty Disputes, IntLawGrrls (Mar. 13, 2010).

2009

Books

• Adjudicating Climate Change: State, National, and International Approaches, edited by William C.G. Burns, Hari M. Osofsky (2009).

Articles

• Is Climate Change “International”?: Litigation’s Diagonal Regulatory Role, 49 Virginia Journal of International Law 585 (2009).

• Scaling “Local”: The Implications of Greenhouse Gas Regulation in San Bernardino County, 30 Michigan Journal of International Law 689 (2009).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Our Newest IntLawGrrl: Josephine Mason King-Bond, IntLawGrrls (Dec. 10, 2009).

• EPA Grants California’s Clean Air Act Waiver, IntLawGrrls (June 30, 2009).

• Koh Cloture Passes, IntLawGrrls (June 24, 2009).

• Why We All Should Care about Harold Koh's Confirmation, IntLawGrrls (June 23, 2009).

• Reminder--ASIL Annual Meeting Proposals Due This Friday, IntLawGrrls (June 16, 2009).

• Luke Cole and Environmental Justice, IntLawGrrls (June 10, 2009).

• Write On! Upcoming Inaugural meeting of the Association for Law, Property & Society, IntLawGrrls (May 15, 2009).

• Write On! Children & the Law Junior Faculty Workshop, IntLawGrrls (May 12, 2009).

• Thoughts on Koh’s Confirmation Hearing: The Value of Thoughtful Discourse, IntLawGrrls (Apr. 29, 2009).

• Exploring Diagonals Further: A Response to Professors Ruhl and Sayre, Opinio Juris (Apr. 16, 2009).

• Is Climate Change ‘International’? Litigation’s Diagonal Regulatory Role, Opinio Juris (Apr. 16, 2009).

• In Defense of Dean Koh and Transnationalism, IntLawGrrls (Apr. 9, 2009).

• Guns and Kids, IntLawGrrls (Mar. 14, 2009).

• Climate Policy for the Obama Administration, IntLawGrrls (Feb. 20, 2009).

• Anti-Regulatory Climate Change Litigation, IntLawGrrls (Jan. 29, 2009).

• California Greenhouse Gas Waiver, IntLawGrrls (Jan. 25, 2009).

• New Year’s in Tel Aviv, IntLawGrrls (Jan. 17, 2009).

2008

Articles

• Climate Change Legislation in Context, 102 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 245 (2008).

• The Geography of Justice Wormholes: Dilemmas from Property and Criminal Law, 53 Villanova Law Review 117 (2008).

• The Geography of Climate Change Litigation Part II: Narratives of Massachusetts v. EPA, 8 Chicago Journal of International Law 573 (2008).

• The Scale of Networks: Local Climate Change Coalitions, 8 Chicago Journal of International Law 409 (2008) (Co-authored by: Janet Koven Levit).

Contributions to Books

• A Right to Frozen Water?: The Institutional Spaces for Supranational Climate Change Petitions, in Progress in International Law 749 (Rebecca Bratspies & Russell Miller eds. 2008).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Go On! International Law Weekend 2008, IntLawGrrls (Sept. 8, 2008).

• Janet Koven Levit Named Dean at University of Tulsa College of Law, IntLawGrrls (July 14, 2008).

• Update: Transnational Law & Curricular Reform, IntLawGrrls (May 1, 2008).

• Gender & Identity: Some Anniversary Musings, IntLawGrrls (Mar. 3, 2008).

2007

Articles

• Local Approaches to Transnational Corporate Responsibility: Mapping the Role of Sub-National Climate Change Litigation, 20 Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal 143 (2007).

• Climate Change Litigation as Pluralist Legal Dialogue?, 26 Stanford Environmental Law Journal & 43 Stanford Journal of International Law 181 (2007) (joint issue).

• A Law and Geography Perspective on the New Haven School, 32 Yale Journal of International Law 421 (2007).

• The Intersection of Scale, Science, and Law in Massachusetts v. EPA, 9 Oregon Review of International Law 233 (2007) reprinted in Adjudicating Climate Change: State, National, and International Approaches (William C.G. Burns & Hari M. Osofsky eds., 2009).

Contributions to Books

• The Inuit Petition as a Bridge? Beyond Dialectics of Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, in American Indian Law Review 272 (2007) reprinted in Adjudicating Climate Change: State, National, and International Approaches (William C.G. Burns & Hari M. Osofsky eds., 2009).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Go On! International Law Weekend: Oct. 25-27, IntLawGrrls (Oct. 13, 2007).

• Climate Change and Urban Growth, IntLawGrrls (Aug. 22, 2007).

• Balanced IntLawGrrls?, IntLawGrrls (July 7, 2007).

• Multiscalar Global Legal Pluralism and Spelling, IntLawGrrls (May 5, 2007).

• ILW 2007 Call for Panel Proposals, IntLawGrrls (May 4, 2007).

• Roundtable on Massachusetts. v. EPA: The Front-line of U.S. Climate Change Litigation, Opinio Juris (Apr. 10, 2007).

• Climate Change and the 150 Ways International Law Impacts Our Lives, IntLawGrrls (Apr. 7, 2007).

• IPCC Report on Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, IntLawGrrls (Apr. 7, 2007).

• Massachusetts v. EPA and Climate Change Litigation, IntLawGrrls (Apr. 2, 2007).

• A Win for Oregon As Well As the Law, The Oregonian (April 5, 2007).

• Symposium: Osofsky Reply to Knox, Opinio Juris (Mar. 29, 2007).

• Symposium Paper 5: Climate Change Litigation as Pluralist Legal Dialogue?, Opinio Juris (Mar. 29, 2007).

• Bird Flu Samples, Vaccines, and Equity, IntLawGrrls (Mar. 26, 2007).

• Demosthenes Through Older Eyes, IntLawGrrls (Mar. 3, 2007).

• Equal Pay for Equal Work at Wimbledon, IntLawGrrls (Feb. 22, 2007).

• Detainees, Internment, and Outsider Voices, IntLawGrrls (Feb. 22, 2007).

• First Missive from Mata Hari, IntLawGrrls (Feb. 17, 2007).

2006

Articles

• The Geography of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation's Citizen Submissions Process: Mapping the State-Corporate Regulatory Dynamic, 14 Michigan State Journal of International Law 463 (2006).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Climate Change Litigation and Dilemmas of Transnational Regulatory Governance, Opinio Juris (Nov. 13, 2006).

• Midterm Elections and Climate Change, Opinio Juris (Nov. 9, 2006).

• Rumsfeld Resignation, Opinio Juris (Nov. 8, 2006).

• Update on the Security Council: Panama Officially in on the 48th Round, Opinio Juris (Nov. 8, 2006).

• Election Day Reflections: Nicaragua and the United States, Opinio Juris (Nov. 7, 2006).

• The Hussein Verdict and U.S. Midterm Elections, Opinio Juris (Nov. 6, 2006).

• Environmental Challenges, Opinio Juris (Nov. 3, 2006).

• The Need for Geography, Opinio Juris (Nov. 1, 2006).

2005

Articles

• The Geography of Climate Change Litigation: Implications for Transnational Regulatory Governance, 83 Washington University Law Quarterly 1789 (2005).

• Learning from Environmental Justice: A New Model for International Environmental Rights, 24 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 71 (2005).

2003

Articles

• Defining Sustainable Development After Earth Summit 2002, 26 Loyola of Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Review 111 (2003).

1997

Articles

• Domesticating International Criminal Law: Providing Justice Against Severe Human Rights Violators, 107 Yale Law Journal 191 (1997) reprinted in Library of Essays in International Law: Jurisdiction in International Law (W. Michael Reisman ed., 1999).

• Environmental Human Rights Under the Alien Tort Claims Act: Redress for Indigenous Victims of Multinational Corporations, 20 Suffolk Transnational Law Review 335 (1997).

• Foreign Sovereign Immunity from Severe Human Rights Violations: New Directions for Common Law Based Approaches, 11 New York International Law Review 35 (1997).