Environmental Law Faculty Scholarship

Our environmental law faculty have published some significant papers on issues including climate legislation, wildlife protections, and public trust.
 

Lisa Benjamin
 
  • Taylor Nchako and Lisa Benjamin, ESG Backlash in the United States –  Investor Concerns or ‘Red Scare’? 5(2) 268, JLPE (2025).
  • Co-author, Legal and State Efforts to Address Climate Obstruction, chapter 12, CLIMATE OBSTRUCTION, A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT. (Timmons Roberts, Carlos Milani, Jennifer Jacquet, and Christian Downie, eds., Oxford University Press, 2025).
  • Lisa Benjamin and Sara Seck, Causation, chapter 16, CLIMATE HANDBOOK ON CLIMATE LITIGATION (Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh and Sarah Mead eds., Cambridge University Press, 2025)
  • Lisa Benjamin, The SEC and Climate Litigation, Lewis & Clark Law Review (forthcoming, 2026). 
  • Co- author, Co-chair, Towards a Just Transition Integrating Fair Share, Equity and Justice into Climate Transition Plans, Report for Race to Zero Sub-committee on Fair Share, Justice and Equity.
 

Michael Blumm
 
  • Treaty Justice: Charles Wilkinson’s Homage to the Boldt Decision, 48 Public Land & Resources Law Review 172 (2025). 
  • THE PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES LAW, 4TH EDITION (Carolina Academic Press, 2025) (with Mary Wood & John Dernbach).
  • A BRIEF AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY IN A NUTSHELL, 2ND EDITION (West Publishing, forthcoming 2026) 
  • Tribal Co-Management On Ceded Lands: A New Era?, 61 U.Tulsa L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2025) (with Adam Eno '24)
 

Erica Lyman
 
  • Erica Lyman & Nick Fromherz, Wildlife Crime, chapter, Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law 425-428 (Joan Schaffner, ed., 2025)
  • Erica Lyman & Nick Fromherz, Examining Ecocide as Wildlife Crime, in Handbook on Wildlife Crime (Frances Masse et al, eds.) (forthcoming).
 

Michele Okoh
 
  • Everywhere But Here: How the U.S. Ignores Climate Migration, in Living the Good Life in the Anthropocene (Keith H. Hirokawa and Jessica Owley,  eds. 2025). (forthcoming 2025)
  • America Erased, ADAPTING TO HIGH-LEVEL WARMING: LAW, GOVERNANCE, AND EQUITY (Katrina F. Kuh and Shannon M. Roesler, eds. 2025). 
 

Melissa Powers
 
  • Rhetoric Versus Reality After Winter  Storm Uri, ADAPTING TO HIGH-LEVEL WARMING: LAW, GOVERNANCE, AND EQUITY (Katrina F. Kuh and Shannon M. Roesler, eds.) (2025).
 

Chris Wold
 
  • Chris Wold, The Convention on Migratory Species at 45: A “Sleeping” Treaty Awakes, 34 N.Y.U. Envtl. L. Rev . ___ (forthcoming February 2026)
  • Chris Wold, Article 22: Relationship with Other International Conventions, THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY: A COMMENTARY (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, forthcoming Dec. 2026)
 
 

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