BOOKS
DEPOLARIZED: HOW STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATIONS ARE BREAKING GRIDLOCK (Columbia University Press, under advance contract, forthcoming 2026).
WILDLIFE AS PROPERTY OWNERS: A NEW CONCEPTION OF ANIMAL RIGHTS (University of Chicago Press, 2020).
WILDFIRE: LAW & ECONOMICS POLICY PERSPECTIVES (Routledge, 2012) (co-editor Dean Lueck).
SELECTED LAW Journal ARTICLES
Animals in the Courtroom, 32 J. L. & Pol’y 1 (2024) (with student co-authors).
Identifying Contemporary Rights of Nature in the United States, 95 S. CAL. L. REV. 1439 (2022).
Stakeholder Dynamics in Land Development Projects , 50 J. LEGAL STUD. S53 (2021).+
Humans as Animals, 2021 UTAH L. REV. 185 (2021).
Stakeholder Collaboration as an Alternative to Cost-Benefit Analysis, 2019 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 665 (2020).
Biodiversity Loss, Viewed through the Lens of Mismatched Property Rights, 14 Int’l J. Commons 650 (2020) (with Challie Facemire).+
An Introduction to Overlapping Resources and Mismatched Property Rights, 14 Int’l J. Commons 553 (2020) (with Dean Lueck and William Christmas).+
Virtual Parceling, 14 Int’l J. Commons 597 (2020) (with Bryan Leonard).+
Expropriating Habitat, 43 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 77 (2019).*
Agency Engagement with Stakeholder Collaborations, in Wildfire Policy and Beyond, 51 ARIZ. ST. L.J. 437 (2019).*
Reviewed by Eric Biber, We Need to Work Together: Understanding Federal Agency Collaboration, JOTWELL (Feb. 9, 2021).
Agency Coordination of Private Action: The Role of Relational Contracting, 6 TEX. A&M. L. REV. 229 (2018) (symposium).
Animal Property Rights, 89 U. COLO. L. REV. 809 (2018).
Using Takings to Undo Givings, 10 N.Y.U. J. L. & LIBERTY 649 (2017) (symposium).
Settling for Natural Resource Damages, 40 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 211 (2016).**
Translated into Mandarin and reprinted in CHINESE ENVTL. & RESOURCES L. REV., 环境资源法论丛 (2018).
Reprinted in 54 ROCKY MNT. MIN. L. FDN. J. (2017).
Reviewed by Steve Gold, The Real World, JOTWELL (Aug. 18, 2017).
The Short-Term Temptations and Long-Term Risks of Environmental Catastrophism, 56 JURIMETRICS J. 234 (2016) (co-author Gary E. Marchant) (symposium). +
Contracting for Control of Landscape-Level Resources, 100 IOWA L. REV. 2507 (2015) (co-author Dean Lueck).*
Information Flooding, 48 IND. L. REV. 755 (2015).
New Governance and Industry Culture, 88 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 2515 (2013).
Backfired! Distorted Incentives in Wildfire Suppression, 31 UTAH ENVTL. L. REV. 155 (2011).
A Modern Overview of Wildfire Law, 21 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 445 (2010).
* Selected as one of the top 15-20 papers nationally in the year of publication through a process of peer review in one or more of the following fields: Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Natural Resources, Land Use.
+ Peer reviewed.
Other SELECTED Publications
Dictionary Entry, “Property (Animals) – Wildlife as Property Owners,” in Dictionnaire des droits de la nature (Marie-Sophie de Clippele, Delphine Misonne, and Hendrik Schoukens, forthcoming 2026) (in French).
Dictionary Entry, “Klamath River, the Legal Personhood Of,” in Dictionnaire des droits de la nature (Marie-Sophie de Clippele, Delphine Misonne, and Hendrik Schoukens, forthcoming 2026) (in French).
Encyclopedia Entry, “Wildlife as Property Owners,” in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law (ed. Joan Schaffner 2024).
Guest Editor for International Journal of the Commons Volume: Overlapping Resources and Mismatched Property Rights (2020).
Academic Consultant Author for Government Agency Report: Stakeholder Collaborations for Managing Land & Natural Resources, Report for the Administrative Conference of the United States (2017).
Book Chapter: The Role of Norms in Wildfire Suppression, in WILDFIRE: LAW & ECONOMICS POLICY PERSPECTIVES (Routledge, 2012).
Book Chapter: Academic Administrators and the Challenge of Social-Networking Websites, in THE OFFENSIVE INTERNET (Harvard University Press, 2011) (Saul Levmore & Martha Naussbaum, eds.) (co-author Souvik Saha).