Faculty Publications

Alaska Energy Deal With CPC Reflects a Rare Move by a Taiwanese Entity (15 Aug 2025), the National Interest (coauthored with Julie Lee)

Reviving Conditional Non-FTA Authorizations Under the Trump Administration (4 Aug 2025) the National Interest (coauthored with Rohan Nimmagadda)

Offshore wind provides jobs, investment and clean power. Trump is killing it (28.04.25) Global Construction Review.

The Debate Over Wind Power is “Blowin’ in the Wind (18 April 2025) the National Interest (coauthored with  Benjamin Zycher, Nick Loris and Patrick Seroogy)

Harnessing Nature’s Breath: The (Offshore) Wind Industry That Drives Green Power Forward, The National Interest (April 8, 2025) (coauthored with Patrick Seroogy)

The Ukraine Mineral Resources Agreement – A Strategic Partnership in Progress?, The National Interest (March 4, 2025) (coauthored with Byron Sequeira)

Recalibrating Exports: Russia’s Strategic Moves in the Fertilizer Market, The National Interest (February 24, 2025) (coauthored with Max Galatas)

Offshore Wind: A Comparative of The United States And Norway, 36 Fordham Envtl. L. Rev. (2024)

Quoted in Rod Sweet, Trump administration makes U-turn on New York’s $5bn Empire Wind scheme (21.05.25) Global Construction Review.

NEPA: The Accepted Lies and Mistakes About This Critical Environmental Law, The Revelator (June 27, 2025) (with A. Camacho).

Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Geo. Wash. L. Rev. On the Docket (June 10, 2025),

What You Do Not Know Can Hurt You and Others, THE REGUL. REV. (Apr. 28, 2025)

The Disintegration of Administrative Adjudicatory Enforcement Authority, 34 Widener Commonwealth L. Rev. 69 (2024)

Delegated Agency Authority to Address Chemicals of Emerging Concern: EPA’s Strategic Use of Emergency Powers to Address PFAS Air Pollution, 48 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 2 (2024) (with J. Adashek)

In Praise of Dan Mandelker’s NEPA Wisdom, 52 Urb. Law. 258 (2023).

Sackett v. EPA: The Court Delivers Another Massive Blow to Federal Environmental Law, Geo. Wash. L. Rev. On the Docket (May 27, 2023)

A Critical 21st Century Role for Public Land Management: Conserving 30% of the Nation’s Lands and Waters Beyond 2030, 54 Ariz.  St. L.J. 1313 (2022) (with Sandra Zellmer)

How to Reform Federal Permitting to Accelerate Clean Energy Infrastructure: A Nonpartisan Way Forward, Brookings (Feb. 14, 2023) (with Rayan Sud and Sanjay Patnaik)

Adjudicating the Future of Agency Adjudication, 48 Admin. & Regulatory L. News 5 (fall 2022) (with R. Levy) (published Jan. 12, 2023)

Fixing What’s Wrong with Environmental Enforcement, Notice & Comment (Jan. 12, 2023)

Protecting the Public Health with the Inflation Reduction Act — Provisions Affecting Climate Change and Its Health Effects, 388 New England J. Med. 84 (Jan. 5, 2023)

Adaptive Management and NEPA: How to Reconcile Predictive Assessment in the Face of Uncertainty with Natural Resource Management Flexibility and Success, 46 Harv. Env’t L. Rev. 121 (2022) (with J. Page) (cited in Ohio Env’t Council v. U.S. Forest Serv., 2023 WL 2712454 (S.D. Ohio 2023)

Protecting the Public Health with the Inflation Reduction Act—Provisions Affecting Climate Change and Its Health Effects, New England J. of Medicine, (Dec. 21, 2022)

The New Separation of Powers Formalism and Administrative Adjudication, 90 Geo. Wash. L. Rev.1088 (2022) (with R. Levy)

Enhancing Environmental Enforcement by Example and Erudition, 36 J. Land Use & Envtl. L. 191 (published Dec. 7, 2022)

30 x 30—Conservation and the Multiple-Use Agencies, 68 Nat. Resources & Energy L. Inst. 34-1 (2022) (with S. Zellmer)

The Clean Water Act’s 50th Anniversary: Nine Key Reforms for Clean Water Today (Nov. 2022)

Adjudicating the Future of Agency Adjudication, 48 Admin. & Regulatory L. News 3 (Fall 2022) (with R. Levy)

Preview of Sackett v. EPA, Geo. Wash. L. Rev. On the Docket (2022)

Judicial Review of Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Change Lawsuits: Deferential and Nondeferential Evaluation of Agency Factual and Policy Determinations, 46 Harv. Env’t L. Rev. 367 (2022) (with D. Kim and K. Groth-Tuft)

Addressing Doubts About a Central Panel, Yale J. on Reg. Notice & Comment (Feb. 22, 2022), (with R. Levy)

Toward a Federal Central Panel for Administrative Adjudication, Yale J. on Reg. Notice & Comment (Feb. 14, 2022) (with R. Levy)

Invited participant in workshop at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School , Arlington, VA (Sept. 12, 2025), on “The Supreme Court’s New ‘Arbitrary and Capricious’ Standard and APA Originalism.”

Panel presenter, “The Procedural Hangover: How NEPA Litigation Obstructs Critical Projects,” Senate Russell Office Building, Washington, D.C. (Sept. 3, 2025)

Testimony before the House Committee on Natural Resources on the “Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act” (the “SPEED Act”) (H.R. 4776), Washington, D.C. (Sept. 10, 2025).

“Introduction to Environmental Federalism,” presentation at the XVII International Forum on Environmental Law, Buenos Aires, Argentina (June 26, 2025)

“Issues of Separation of Powers and Administrative Law in the United States,” presentation at the Universidad del Salvador (USAL), Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina (June 24, 2025)

Participant, “Leading the Way: Developing the Next Generation of Practice Resources for an Evolving Public Trust Doctrine,” organized by the Sea Grant Law Center & the Coastal States Organization, Washington, D.C. (June 10, 2025)

City & County of S.F. v. EPA, presentation to the GW Law faculty on the Supreme Court’s decision in this Clean Water Act case (June 4, 2025)

Recent Developments in U.S. Climate Change Law,” presentation at the 33^rd Annual Eastern Boot Camp on Environmental Law, sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute and held at the D.C. offices of Sidley Austin (November 19, 2024).

Presentation, “The State of the Administrative State,” 8^th Annual Conference of the Ecological Restoration Business Association, Washington, D.C. (Sept. 19, 2024).

Presentation, “Reorganizing Government: Structural Choices in Functional Governance Design,” at conference on “Regulatory Governance in a Changing World,” sponsored by the Inaugural Conference of the International Association on Regulation and Governance, Philadelphia, PA (June 17, 2024).

Presentation, “Administrative Adjudication on the Chopping Block in Jarkesy v. SEC,” Widener Commonwealth Law Review Symposium on “Judging and Administrative Law” (on Zoom) (Apr. 15, 2024).

“Standing Based on Informational Injury: A Paradoxical Tale,” presentation to the GW Law faculty (Apr. 10, 2024)

“Using the Clean Air Act to Reduce PFAS Exposure,” participation at the Harvard Environmental Law Review Virtual Authors Dinner (on Zoom) (Apr. 3, 2024).

“Innovative Management of the Public Lands and National Forests,” presentation at meeting of the Center for Progressive Reform, “Progressive Wins, Challenges Ahead,” Washington, D.C. (Jan. 4, 2024).

Presenter, “Current Issues in Environmental Law,” to GW Law Environmental & Energy Law Adjuncts, GW Law School (Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2023)

Presenter and moderator, “Scaling Up the Smart Grid,” at Broadband Breakfast’s “Made in America Summit,” (Washington, D.C., June 27, 2023)

Presenter, “The Opportunities and Challenges of Empirical Research in U.S. Environmental Law,” Conference on Empirical Legal Research: A State of Knowledge Across Europe, Université Toulouse Capitole (Toulouse, France, June 10, 2023)

Presenter, “Environmental Law in the Supreme Court: A Survey of Recent and Forthcoming Decisions,” Wednesday Morning Group (Bethesda, MD, May 3, 2023)

Participant, “Workshop on Adjudication in the Administrative State” Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University (Fairfax, VA, Apr. 14, 2023)

Closing Remarks, “How to Achieve 30 by 30” The 2023 J.B. & Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium, Conserving Our Nation’s Biodiversity: Progress, Obstacles and Solutions for America’s 30 x 30 Initiatives (Washington, D.C., Apr. 7, 2023)

Presenter, “Climate Mitigation Regulation in the U.S.,” Presentation to the Vietnamese Ministry of the Environment (Washington, D.C., Mar. 29, 2023)

Guest Lecturer, “The New Separation of Powers Formalism and Administrative Adjudication,” Duke University School of Law class on The Administrative State in Crisis (online) (Feb. 27, 2023)

Participant, Workshop, Judicial Remedies and Agency Actions, George Mason University Law School (Arlington, VA, Nov. 18, 2022)

Speaker, Forum on Permitting Reform for Energy Infrastructure Projects, American Enterprise Institute (Washington, D.C. Oct. 28, 2022)

Presentation, Protecting Public Health Through U.S. Climate Action: Making Sense of the Shifting Landscape After West Virginia v. EPA and the Inflation Reduction Act, Milken Institute School of Public Health, GW University (Washington, D.C., Oct. 13, 2022)

Panelist, “GW Perspectives on the Inflation Reduction Act” (Oct. 12, 2022)

Commentator, “Festschrift Symposium for Daniel Mandelker” (Sept. 28, 2022)

Moderator, “Virtual Lunch on Rights-Based Climate Litigation” (Sept. 27, 2022)

Speaker and Organizer, Climate Justice Roundtable, “Charting a Course for a Progressive Future: Roundtables on Energy Democracy, the Courts, and Climate Justice,” Center for Progressive Reform, (Washington, D.C., Sept. 16, 2022)

Presenter, “The Implications of West Virginia v EPA,” (Aug. 10, 2022)

Speaker, “The Implications of West Virginia v. EPA and the Major Questions Doctrine,” (July 28, 2022)

Presenter, “Conservation and the Multiple Use Agencies,” 68th Annual Natural Resources and Energy Law Institute of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (July 23, 2022)

Presenter, “Top Policy Reforms for the Clean Water Act’s 50th Anniversary,” Center for Progressive Reform Roundtable at the Waterkeeper Alliance Global Conference, (Washington, D.C., June 10, 2022) 

Presenter, “Judicial Review of Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Change Lawsuits: Deferential and Nondeferential Evaluation of Agency Factual and Policy Determinations,” presentation at the 7th Annual SRP Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators (Phoenix, AZ, May 13, 2022) 

Presenter, “The Need for and Structure of a Federal Central Panel of ALJs,” Fairness, Justice and the Need for a Federal Central Panel (May 3, 2022)

Quoted in Bipartisan NEPA reform proposal gets electric utilities’ support by Robert Walton (Utility Dive) (Sept. 15, 2025)

Quoted in U.S. House committee considers legislation to improve federal permit process, including Westerman’s SPEED Act by Alex Thomas (Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette) (Sept. 10, 2025)

Quoted in Trump Admin’s Push To Sunset Energy Regs Faces Hurdles by Keith Goldberg (Law360) (Sept. 10, 2025)

Quoted in Permit Streamlining Bill Debate Underscores Ongoing Political Hurdles, Inside EPA (Sept. 10, 2025)

Quoted in U.S. lawmakers are hoping to overhaul the federal permitting process by Nolan McKendry (The Center Square )(Sept. 12, 2025)

Quoted in  Environmental lawyers seek loopholes in Trump’s auto regulationTeardown by Grant Schwab (Detroit Free Press) (Aug. 27, 2025)

Quoted in The ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Site Once Changed History. Now, It’s Testing the Law Again by Hiroko Tabuchi, NY Times (Aug. 22, 2025)

Quoted in Trump admin blocks $1.25 million in LGBTQ, DEI grants, which may violate federal law by Joe Reberkenny.

Cited by the Southern District of New York in Mulgrew v. U.S. Dep’t of Transp., 750 F. Supp. 3d 171 (S.D.N.Y. 2024).

Quoted in A Deregulation Reality Check, EHS Daily Advisor (Apr. 4, 2025).

Cited in Beau J. Baumann, A Major Questions Doctrine Update, Notice & Comment (Mar. 28, 2025), (Citing article on regulation of PFAS)

Quoted, Sara Samora, EPA deregulation efforts could take months or years, experts say, ManufacturingDive (Mar. 25, 2025).

Quoted, Dan McKay, HHS Comment Reversal Sets Stage For Quick Policy Changes, Law360 (Mar. 11, 2025)

Quoted, Maya Weber, Trump staffing cuts could trim US DOJ energy policy expertise, Platts LNG Alert (LNG), 0100; Platts Electricity Alert (PEA), 0100; Platts Natural Gas Alert (PGN), 0100; Platts Americas Gas & Power Alert (AGP), 0100; Platts Global Alert (PGA), 0100 (Feb. 11, 2025).

Quoted, Austin Corona, “Fewer and smaller monuments: Republicans seek to limit the use of Antiquities Act,” Ariz. Republic (Feb. 8, 2025).

Comments on the Review Agency Action Clarification Amendment Act of 2025 ‘Research Grants’ to the D.C. Council (Mar. 13, 2025)

Quoted, Kyle Bradley, Revisiting EPA’s Forever Chemical Strategy, The Regulatory Rev. (Jan. 9, 2025) (discussing Prof. Glicksman’s article on EPA’s efforts to confront the health risks caused by the use of er- and polyfluoroalklyl substances -PFAS). 

Inefficient and reckless: Why DOGE could be so dangerous, The Hill (Dec. 3, 2024)  (with A. Camacho & J. Goodwin) (reprinted).

Quoted in Trump’s energy agenda in the next administration: A closer look, Callie Patteson & Maydeen Merino, Wash. Examiner (Dec. 2, 2024)

Quoted in Haley Chi-Sing, Legal challenges on administrative reach expected in Trump’s deregulatory scheme, experts say, FoxNews (Nov. 27, 2024)

Quoted in Grant Schwab, Can Trump end California’s autos emission rule supremacy?, Detroit News (Nov. 25, 2024) (on regulation of the auto industry under the Trump administration).

Letter to U.S. House and Senate Leaders on the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 (Nov. 11, 2024)(with multiple co-authors)

Gina Gkoulgkountina, The Flaws in Jarkesy and Why Certain Civil Penalties May Survive, The Regulatory Review (Nov. 6, 2024) (discussing The Disintegration of Agency Adjudicatory Enforcement Authority, 34 Widener Commonwealth L. Rev. 69 (2024), on the impact of SEC v. Jarkesy).

Quoted in the Week in Review on The Regul. Rev. (October 14, 2024)

Quoted in William Roberts, Fears of large-scale legal disruption after US Supreme Court fells Chevron doctrine, IBA US (Aug. 19, 2024) Available HERE

Quoted in Steve Lash, Chief Justice Loses Ability—or Willingness—To Be a Consensus Builder, ALM.Law.com, (Aug. 15, 2024) Available HERE

Quoted in Connor Henderson, Matthew Spero & Gloria Lyu, Conserving America’s Public Lands, Regul. Rev. (Aug. 10, 2024) Available HERE

Quoted in Sean Reilly, Power plant rule foes lean on Chevron doctrine’s demise, Greenwire (July 19, 2024)  Available HERE

Quoted in Maydeen Merino, ‘Chevron’ Deference’s Demise Likely Emboldens EPA’s Opponents, Environmental Law Experts Say, Nat’l L.J. (July 18, 2024), available HERE

Quoted in  Daniel Moore & Shayna Greene, Energy Agency Public Interest Actions Face Scrutiny Post-Chevron, Bloomberg Law (July 3, 2024), available HERE

Quoted in  Keith Goldberg, Emissions Rules’ Foes May Be Forced To Yield To Automakers, Law360 (Apr. 10, 2024), available HERE

Interview concerning the National Environmental Policy Act, in Rare Toads or Clean Energy? An Environmental Law Fight in Nevada (Mar. 11, 2024) (Bloomberg Law). Available at https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/rare-toads-or-clean-energy-an-environmental-law-fight-in-nevada  (Bloomberg News) 

Quoted in Justices Don’t Provide All the Answers to Major Questions, Law360 (July 3, 2023)

Quoted in Quote-Unquote: PFAS, PFAS, PFAS, Inside EPA (June 7, 2023) 

Quoted extensively in Sam Hess, High Court’s Sackett Ruling ‘Bodes Ill’ for EPA’s Bedrock Legal Authorities, InsideEPA.com (June 1, 2023)

Quoted in What the COTUS Water Ruling Means for Chevron Doctrine, Greenwire (May 30, 2023)

Quoted in We Desperately Need a New Power Grid. Here’s How to Make it Happen New York Times (May 7, 2023)

Author, How Climate Legislation Protects the Environment and Public Health, The Hill (Dec. 25, 2022)

Author, The Interior Department’s Promising but Unfinished Business, CPRBlog (Feb. 2, 2022)

Administrative Law: Agency Action in Legal Context (Foundation Press 4th ed. 2025) (published in August 2025) (with R. Levy & D. Adelman)

NEPA Law and Litigation (Thomson Reuters 2025 ed.) (with co-authors)

Public Natural Resources Law (Thomson Reuters 2025-2 edition)

PUBLIC NATURAL RESOURCES LAW, 2025-1 ed. (Environmental Law Series)

Stay Ahead of the Pack: Your Comprehensive Guide to the Upper Level Curriculum (West Academic 2d ed.) (published in October 2024)

PUBLIC NATURAL RESOURCES LAW, Release # 50 (2d ed. Thomson Reuters)

PUBLIC NATURAL RESOURCES LAW, Release # 49 (2d ed. Thomson Reuters).

NEPA Law and Litigation (Thomson/Reuters 2023-2024 ed.) (with D. Mandelker et al.)

Environmental Protection:  Law and Policy (9th ed. Aspen Pub. 2023) (with W. Buzbee, D. Mandelker, E. Hammond & A. Camacho)

Public Natural Resources Law (2d edition) (Release # 46-48)

NEPA Law and Litigation (2d ed. 2022) (with D. Mandelker et al.)

Administrative Law: Agency Action in Legal Context (Foundation Press 3d ed. 2020) (with R. Levy)

Administrative Law, in R. Glicksman et al., Staying Ahead of the Pack: Your Comprehensive Guide to the Upper-Level Curriculum (West Academic) (forthcoming).

Agency Amici, 58 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1669 (2025)

The Community Veto and the Clean Energy Transition, 85 Ohio State L.J. 1031 (2025)

What are “best and “adequate”? The litigation outlook for EPA’s proposed carbon rules for power plants, Threads (May 2024) (with Jennifer Wlodarczyk)

Community Vetoes in the Clean Energy Transition, Ohio State Law Journal (forthcoming)

Finding a Place for Expertise After Loper Bright, 31 GEO. MASON L. REV. 559 (2024)

Responding to Mass, Computer-Generated, and Mallatributed Comments, 74Admin. L. Rev. 95 (2022) (with Steve Balla, Reeve Bull, Bridget C.E. Dooling, Michael Herz, Michael Livermore, & Beth Simone Noveck)

Symposium, The Supreme Court and the Environment: The Impact of Recent Rulings on Environmental Law and Policy, Lewis & Clark Law School, April 4, 2025

Panelist, Legal Impacts of the ADVANCE Act and Recent Supreme Court Administrative Law Decisions on the NRC’s Regulatory and Adjudicatory Processes, NRC Regulatory Information Conference, March 13, 2025

Moderator, Nuclear Safety, Civil Liability, and Nuclear Damage, The Law of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Safety in the Midst of World Challenges (IAEA), Washington, DC, Oct. 2024

Panelist, Community Vetoes and the Clean Energy Transition,Howard University Energy Justice Workshop & Policy Dialogue, Washington, DC, Sept. 2024

Panelist, Inside Federal Agencies: The Regulatory Process from the Regulator’s Perspective, AHRI Policy Symposium, Washington, DC, May 2024

Panelist, Environmental Justice and Participation in Energy Market Decisionmaking, National Environmental Justice Conference and Training Program, Washington, DC, Apr. 2024

Participant, Austin Electricity Conference (invitation only, Feb 29-Mar 1)

Panelist, Ohio State Law Journal symposium, What Next? The Rise, Fall, and Future of American Environmental Law, Feb. 23, 2024

Panelist, “Power to the People: Advancing Energy Equity in North Carolina and Beyond,” Center for Progressive Reform (online, Mar. 30, 2023)

Panelist, Mayah’s Lot: Building the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders (Washington, DC, Mar. 27, 2023)

Panelist, “2022 Supreme Court Preview” (Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2022)

Keynote Speaker, “Center for Progressive Reform’s 25th Anniversary Celebration,” (Washington, D.C., Sept. 16, 2022)

Speaker, “Pride Month Celebration,” Microsoft Energy Team (June 24, 2022)

Panelist, “Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Q&A,” AALS Workshop for New Law Teachers, (Washington, D.C., June 3, 2022)

Quoted, “Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos,” PROPUBLICA, April 11, 2025

Quoted, EPA’s Deregulation Road Riddled With Potential Potholes, Law360, March 13, 2025

Quoted, “Legal experts sound alarm over Trump bid to control FERC,” E & E News, February 20, 2025

Quoted, “Trump admin tees up legal fight over FERC leadership,” ENERGYWIRE, February 14, 2025

Quoted, “Here’s who’s losing out as Trump freezes the Inflation Reduction Act,”The Washington Post, February 8, 2025

Quoted, “Trump’s Halt on Climate Spending Freeze Jobs and Stalls Projects,” New York Times, February 1, 2025

Planetizen quoted Professor Emily Hammond, available at “SCOTUS Watch: Power of Federal Agencies Likely to be Restricted” (June 28, 2024)

Scientific American quoted Professor Emily Hammond discussing the disruption to the system and years of work to overturn Chevron. (June 25, 2024). Post available Here

Professor Emily Hammond is quoted in the Hill on the Chevron deference Supreme Court decision. (June 25, 2024). Post available Here

Science quoted Professor Emily Hammond on the difference between generalist judges and experts in the field making major decisions in scientific fields (May 28, 2024). Post available Here

CNN quoted Professor Emily Hammond’s take on Florida’s stance on climate mitigation policy (May 15, 2024). Post available Here

Podcast interview: The Conservative War on ‘Agencies That Protect Us’. Available at https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/podcasts/say-more/ (March 27th, 2024).

Congressional Testimony to the House Committee on Small Business on the topic of “Burdensome Regulations: Examining the Effects of Department of Energy Regulations on America’s Job Creators.”

Congressional Testimony as a minority witness to the “Community Reclamation Partnerships Act” (June 14, 2023)

Quoted in How the Supreme Court Could Destroy Environmental Justice Efforts, The New Republic (July 7, 2023)

Quoted in Judiciary Used as ‘Bargaining Chip’ in Debt Limit Pipeline Deal, Bloomberg Law (May 31, 2023)

Quoted in Trump Rolled Back Decades Of Clean Water Protections. The Supreme Court Just Went Even Further, Huffington Post (May 26, 2023)

Quoted in ​​Chevron’s End Unlikely as Justices Weigh Agency Power, Bloomberg Law (May 3, 2023)

Congressional Testimony as a minority witness to the Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act (Mar. 10, 2023)

Quoted in “House Republicans’ Deregulation Drive Could Be Derailed by Spate of Train Wrecks,” Epoch Times (Mar. 12, 2023)

Quoted in “How the White House Found EJ Areas Without Using Race,” E&E News(Jan. 24, 2023)

Energy, Economics, and the Environment:  Cases and Materials (Found. Press, 6^th ed. (forthcoming 2023)) (with Joel Eisen, Joshua Macey, Jim Rossie, David Spence, and Hannah Wiseman)

Environmental Protection: Law and Policy (9th ed. Aspen Pub. 2023) (with R. Glicksman, W. Buzbee, D. Mandelker & A. Camacho)

The Problem of Congestion in Transportation Law, 135 Yale Law Journal Forum (2025) 

Zoned In: San Diego’s Mixed-Use Zoning, 4 Vertical Urbanism 12 (2025) 

Averting Crisis: Zoning to Create Resilient Futures for All, Regional Plan Association Report 2025  (with moses gates et al.) 

Zoned Into Risk? Toward a Climate Resilient Development Index, Urban Institute Research Series 2025  (with andrew rumbach et al.) 

• Lecture, New York City Department of City Planning, Book Talk: Key to the City, Sept. 26, 2025
• Lecture, American University Washington College of Law, Key to the City: Book Talk, Sept. 25, 2025
• Lecture, Texans for Housing and Urban Austin Reads, Book Talk: Key to the City, Sept.18, 2025 
• Lecture, Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association Learning Session, MBTA Communities Act Compliance and Massachusetts Zoning Atlas Findings, Sept. 17, 2025
• YIMBYTown Annual Conference, Putting Families First in the Fight for Affordable Housing, Sept. 9, 2025
• Lecture, YIMBYTown Annual Conference, Power Up Your Advocacy: Deploying National Zoning Atlas Data for Housing Wins, Sept. 14, 2025
• Lecture, National Association of Regional Councils, Zoning for Stronger Regions, Aug. 27, 2025
• Panelist, National Zoning Atlas, Launching the New Mexico Zoning Atlas, Aug. 27, 2025
• Lecture, Monadnock Lyceum Speaker Series, Key to New Hampshire: Zoning, Aug. 24, 2025
• Keynote, Arizona Department of Housing Annual Housing Forum, Zoning: Key to Arizona’s Future, Aug. 14, 2025
• Panelist, National Zoning Atlas, Presenting Zoning Report: Cape Cod, Aug. 7, 2025
• Keynote, Livability in the Land of Enchantment Speaker Series, Zoning for Housing in New Mexico, July 22, 2025
• Lecture, Suffolk University Law School, Unveiling the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas, July 18, 2025 
• Lecture, American Institute of Architects Brooklyn Chapter, Book Talk: Key to the City, July 16, 2025
• Lecture, Housing Works Rhode Island, Book Talk: Key to the City, July 11, 2025
• Lecture, National Zoning Atlas, Unveiling the Colorado Zoning Atlas, July 9, 2025
• Panelist, National Zoning Atlas, Presenting Zoning Report: Colorado, July 9, 2025

Land Use Regulation, Fourth Edition (2025) with Stewart Sterk, Eduardo Peñalver, and Jonathan Zasloff 

Rathkopf’s The Law of Zoning and Planning, 2025 update (with dwight h. merriam)

Op-Ed:  Zoning Rules Exacerbate Colorado’s Housing Crisis, Colorado Politics, Aug. 6, 2025

Op-Ed:  I’m an Urban Planning Expert from Houston. It’s Time We Talk about Zoning Again., Houston Chronicle, Aug. 1, 2025

Television:  Launching the Massachusetts Zoning Atlas, WGBH Boston, July 18, 2025 

Print Interview:  Bronin Talks Zoning at Monadnock Summer Lyceum, Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Aug. 25, 2025 

Print Interview:  Texas Governor Says New Bills Will Help Housing Affordability, Homes.com, Aug. 21, 2025 

Print Interview:  Dallas City Council Will Tee Up Zoning Reform on Wednesday, Candys Dirt, Aug. 19, 2025 

Print Interview:  Interior Slashes Reviews to Speed Cleanups of Orphaned Wells, Politico Energy Wire, Aug. 8, 2025 

Print Interview:  96 Percent of Massachusetts is Off-Limits to Most Apartment Buildings. Some Hope a New Map Will Change That, Boston Globe, July 17, 2025 

 

The Meaning of “Silence,” 31 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 515 (2024).

Incorporating Equity and Justice Concerns in Regulation, 18 Regul. & Governance 99 (2024) (with Robert W. Hahn).

Efficiency and Equity in Regulation, 76 Vand. L. Rev. 361 (2023).

An Equity Blindspot: The Incidence of Regulatory Costs, 14 J. Benefit-Cost Analysis 35 (2023).

Ensuring Efficiency, Expediency, Equity, 40 Envtl. Forum (May/June 2023).

US Benefit-Cost Analysis Requires Revision, 380 Science 803 (2023) (with Peter H. Howard, Max Sarinsky, Michael Bauer, Maureen Cropper, Moritz Drupp, Mark Freeman, Kenneth T. Gillingham, Christian Gollier, Ben Groom, Qingran Li, Michael Livermore, Richard Newell, William A. Pizer, Brian Prest, Glenn Rudebusch, Thomas Sterner, and Gernot Wagner).

Stimulating Distributional Analysis, 48 Admin. & Regulatory L. News 8 (2023), cross-posted on Yale J. on Reg. Notice & Comment (2023).

Major Questions about West Virginia v. EPA and Benefit-Cost Analysis, On Balance (2022).

Add Progress, Stability to Policymaking, 39 Envtl. Forum (March/April 2022).

The Hierarchy and Performance of State Recycling and Deposit Laws, 23 Vermont J. Envtl. L. 319 (2022) (with W. Kip Viscusi).

• President, organizer and Panelist, “Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Courts,” Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis Annual Meeting, March 13-14, 2025
• Panelist, Guardrails of Governance, Legal and Administrative Resilience in Trump 2.0, The George Washington University Law School, February 21, 2025
• Panelist, “Energy and Administrative Law After Loper Bright,” Energy Law Currents, 14th Annual Energy Law Symposium, Texas A&M University School of Law, February 13, 2025.
• Organizer, Looking Ahead: What to Watch for in U.S. Regulatory Policy in the New Administration,ASSA Annual Meeting, Jan. 2025
• Panelist, Effective Commenting in the Rulemaking Process: Tips for Strategic Advocacy, American Law Institute/Environmental Law Institute, Dec. 2024
• Presenter, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 2024
• Discussant, Environmental Justice in Regulatory Decisionmaking, Resources for the Future, Oct. 2024
• Panelist, Supreme Court Preview for 2024 – 2025, The George Washington University Law School, Sept. 2024
• Panelist, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, May 2024
• Presenter, Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis Annual Meeting, Mar. 2024
• Presenter, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 2023
• Panelist, Chevron on Trial, C. Boyden Gray Center, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, Oct. 2023
• Discussant, Permitting the Future, Case Western Reserve University, Sept. 2023
• Presenter, U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis Forum Series on Science, Policy and Risk, July 2023
• Discussant, Virginia’s New Approach to Regulatory Modernization, Regulatory Transparency Project, July 2023
• Presenter, Campbell Visiting Fellows Workshop, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, May 2023
• Panelist/Moderator, Revising Regulatory Review: Expert Insights on the Biden Administration’s Guidelines for Regulatory Analysis, The George Washington University, May 2023
• Presenter, Frontiers of Law and Economics, Vanderbilt Law School, Mar. 2023
• Presenter, FINRA Office of Regulatory Economics and Market Analysis Seminar, Mar. 2023
• Presenter, Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis Annual Meeting, Mar. 2023
• Presenter, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 2022
• Discussant, Duke University School of Law Faculty Workshop, Sept. 2022
• Presenter, Fifth Annual EnviroSchmooze, Texas A&M University School of Law, Aug. 2022
• Presenter, American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Aug. 2022
• Presenter, Meeting of the Society for Environmental Law and Economics, June 2022
• Presenter, Duke University School of Law Faculty Workshop, Apr. 2022
• Presenter, Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis Annual Meeting, Mar. 2022
• Presenter, Berkeley Law and Economics Workshop, Feb. 2022

 Supplement to Environmental Law and Policy (with Richard L. Revesz, Michael A. Livermore, and Jayni Foley Hein) Updated (2025).

Environmental Law and Policy (with Richard L. Revesz, Michael A. Livermore, and Jayni Foley Hein) (Foundation Press, 4th Ed. 2019; 5th Ed. 2024)

Interviewed on the Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision in Simone Del Rosario, Supreme Court strips federal agencies of widely used power, kicks it to courts, SAN (June 28, 2024), https://san.com/cc/supreme-court-strips-federal-agencies-of-widely-used-power-kicks-it-to-courts/ 

Interviewed in Congressional Silence, Agency Power, and the Chevron Doctrine with Caroline Cecot, Two Think Minimum, hosted by Sarah Oh Lam, Thomas M. Lenard, and Scott Wallsten (Apr. 30, 2024)

 

Giovanna E Gismondi, From the Right to Property to the Right to a Healthy Environment: Advancing Climate Justice through the Inter-American Human Rights System, 47 U. Pa. J. Int’l L. (forthcoming 2026)

Giovanna E Gismondi, Denial of Justice: The Latest Indigenous Land Disputes before the European Court of Human Rights and the Need for an Expansive Interpretation of Protocol 1, 18 Yale Hum. Rts. & Dev. L.J. 1 (2017).

Giovanna E Gismondi, The Renco Group Inc. v. Republic of Peru: An Assessment of the Investor’s Main Contentions in the Midst of Environmental Degradation, 59 Harv. Int’l L. J. 1 (2017).

Organizer and Moderator, Dispute Resolution in Investment Arbitration with Human Rights and Environmental Dimensions: What Have We Learned from Recent Case Law?, The 2025 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium, Organized by The George Washington Environmental and Energy Law Program, Washington, D.C., March 20, 2025

Moderator, Constitutional Innovations in Animal Rights and the Rights of Nature: The Peruvian Model, organized by The George Washington Environmental and Energy Law Program, Washington, D.C., 30 January 2025, (webinar).

Panelist, The Human Right to Breathe Clean Air: a comparative regional overview, Panel on Climate Change Activism and International Litigation, jointly co-sponsored by the Sections on Environmental Law, International Human Rights Law, Global Engagement, and Climate Change Activism & International Litigation, 2025 AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 7 – 11 January 2025.

Panelist, La Oroya Community v. Peru:  A Case Study in the Challenges of Protecting Environmental Human Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System, Panel on Bridging Human Rights and Environmental Protection: Challenges and Opportunities, The Crossroad of International Environmental Law Enforcement Symposium, Cohosted by the European Society of International Law (ESIL), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, Barcelona, Spain, 2– 3 December 2024.

Panelist, The Latest Developments on the Right to a Healthy Environment within the InterAmerican Human Rights System, GW Environmental Law Fellows Panel, organized by The George Washington Environmental Law Program, Washington, D.C., 19 September 2024.

Presentation, La Oroya v Peru: upgrading Environmental Rights within the InterAmerican Human Rights System, Pace | Haub Environmental Law Program, Eleventh Annual Future Environmental Law Professors Workshop (FELPW), Pace | Elisabeth Haub School of Law, 6 September 2024.

Moderator, The Rights of Nature and the triple planetary crisis: Lessons lhttps://www.centerforenvironmentalrights.org/calendar/k2x5puputnzr6cqlygqygz7hqbhr4bearned from Ecuador. Organized by The George Washington Environmental Law Program, Earth Law Center, and the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (online webinar) July 17, 2024.

Giovanna E Gismondi, INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW IN INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION, Wolters Kluwer, 2023

INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW AND ARBITRATION: HISTORY, MODERN PRACTICE, AND FUTURE PROSPECTS, Brill Research Perspectives in International Investment Law and Arbitration [BRILL | Nijhoff 2018] (coauthored with BORZU SABAHI & IAN A. LAIRD).

Co-Investigator, Regulating the Cruise Industry to Address Climate Change Impacts and Other Environmental Harms, GWU Sustainability Research Institute Innovation Fund Grant, 2024-25.

When the Math Matters: Use of P-Values in Pharmaceutical Decisions, 48 Vt. L. Rev. 153 (2024)

Grappling with DEI Issues through an Environmental Negotiation Case, in Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Beyond the First Year, Carolina Academic Press (2024)

When the Math Matters: Improving Statistical Advocacy in Gerrymandering Litigation,  100 Neb. L. Rev. 727 (2022)

Presenter, Building Narratives to Combat Climate Change, Tenth Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, University of Michigan Law School (July 2025).

Presenter, Using Images to Develop Cultural Awareness and Teach Lawyering Skills, Global Legal Skills Conference, Masaryk University Faculty of Law; Brno, Czechia (May 2025).

Moderator, Preparing Students to Transition Between Civil Law and Common Law, Global Legal Skills Conference, Masaryk University Faculty of Law; Brno, Czechia (May 2025).

Discussant, Plagiarism in the Law and in Legal Education, Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Indiana University School of Law (July 2024).

Presenter,  Fostering Student Self-Directedness, Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Indiana University School of Law (July 2024).

Presenter, Preparing Students for Non-Litigation Roles in a Global Legal Career, Global Legal Skills Conference, University of Bari, Italy (June 2024).

Moderator, Civil Law Theories in Skills Development,Global Legal Skills Conference, University of Bari, Italy (June 2024)

Presenter, Facilitating Student Reflection on Cross-Cultural Issues through an Environmental Negotiation Exercise; New England Legal Writing Conference, Suffolk University Law School (Nov. 2023)

Presenter, Environmental Regulation and Climate Change; National University “Odesa Law Academy” (Ukraine), part of USAID/Global Legal Skills Conference Series (Oct. 2023)

Presenter, Negotiating Diversity: Facilitating Student Reflection on DEI Issues through an Environmental Negotiation Exercise; Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Conference; University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (June 2023)

Discussant, Animals and the Anthropocene: A Legal Scholarship Symposium, GW Law (Washington, D.C., Mar. 24, 2023)

“Fostering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Negotiation Classroom“, in Integrating Doctrine & Diversity: Inclusion & Equity Beyond the First Year (Carolina Academic Press 2023)

Why Sustainable Procurement?, in 64 Contract Management 48, National Contract Management Association (April 2024)

Presenter, Net Zero Buildings, Arizona State University Law School Annual Sustainability Law Conference (Arizona, May 2023)

Plenary Reflections on “Advancing Sustainable Contracting,” World Commerce and Contracting Academic Symposium (Dec. 13-14, 2022) 

Panelist, “Addressing Climate Change Through Procurement,” Government Contract Management Symposium (Bethesda, MD, Dec. 5, 2022)

“Responsible Consumption and Production,” in Dernbach and Schang, Governing for Sustainability (ELI 2023)

L. Paddock, C. Diedrich, and S. Dibble, Beyond Extended Producer Responsibility, European Journal of Consumer Law (forthcoming Spring 2025)

L. Paddock, Compliance and Enforcement in T. Yang, A Telesetsky, and S. Phillips, Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law (forthcoming Edward Elgar Press 2025)

Resource Efficiency and Net Zero Buildings, in D. Olawuyi, J.J. Gonzalez, H. Mostert, F. Montoya, and C. Banet, Net Zero and Natural Resources Law (OUP 2024)

SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, 53 ELR 10133 (Feb. 2023)

Extended Producer Responsibility: It’s Time to Embrace the Concept, ABA Seer Nat. Res. & Env’t (2022)

Presenter, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Extended Producer Responsibility, IUCN, Lima, Peru, July 4, 2025.

Moderator, Panel on AI and Environmental Enforcement, Georgetown Law School (2025).

Co-organizer for an international summit on environmental compliance and enforcement, Brisbane, Australia, November 6-8, 2024.

Speaker, InterAmerican Development Bank’s Regional Policy Dialogue on Social and Environmental Issues, Santiago, Chile, October 8 2024.

Chair Energy. Justice Policy & Legislation, Southern Methodist University, Resources for the Future program on “Energy Justice in the Energy Transition” (Howard University, September 26, 2024) 

Panelist, Technology and the Environmental Rule of Law, April 3, 2024

Panelist, A Primer on Compliance and Enforcement Issues for Plastics Pollution, January 31, 2024

Presenter, Innovations in Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, InterAmerican Development Banks Regional Dialogue (Mexico City, Mexico, Nov. 2023)

Presenter, Equity Issues and Net Zero Buildings, SMU Dedman School of Law (Dallas, TX, Oct. 2023)

Presenter, Net Zero Buildings, Arizona State University Law School Annual Sustainability Law Conference (Arizona, May 2023)

Panelist, “Extended Producer Responsibility,” Bergeron and Campbell (online) (Mar. 22, 2023)

Keynote Address, Foundation for Energy and Natural Resources Law NEPA Conference (Washington, D.C., Mar. 16, 2023)

Interviewer, International Network for Environmental Compliance (online) (Mar. 3, 2023)

Featured Guest on “Legal Talk Network,” Environmental Law Series: Pollution, Clean Water and Clean Air (Feb. 17, 2022)

“Resource Efficiency and Net Zero Buildings,” in Net Zero and Natural Resources Law, Damilola S. Olawuyi et al. eds., Oxford University Press (forthcoming)

“Model Toxics Supply Chain Contract Language” in S. Maslow and D. Snyder (eds), Contracts for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains (ABA Press 2023) (written with M. Vandenbergh, E. Currier, L DeHihns, L. Hopkins, A. Horowitz, M. Mahoney, J Pendergast and S. Tai)

“SDG 12, Responsible Consumption and Production,” in Dernbach and Schang, Governing for Sustainability (ELI 2023)

“Creating a Framework that Supports Resilient Renewable Energy” in C. Banet, H. Monsters, L. Paddock, M. Montoya, and I. Del Guayo, Resilience in Energy, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources Law (Edward Elgar Press 2022)