JONATHAN H. ADLER
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
11075 East Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
(216) 368-2535
LAW SCHOOL FACULTY POSITIONS
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, Cleveland, OH
Inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, 2011 – Present
Professor of Law (with tenure), July 2006 – Present
Associate Professor of Law, May 2004 – 2006
Assistant Professor of Law, July 2001 – 2004
Courses taught: Administrative Law, Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II (First
Amendment), Election Law Seminar, Energy Law, Environmental Law,
Environmental Law Seminar, International Environmental Law, International
Environmental Law Seminar, Legislation & Regulation, Property
Committees and Service: Curriculum Committee (Chair, 2020-); Appointments
Committee (2009-12; Chair, 2015-19), Provost Search Committee (2017-18); Dean
Search Committee (2015), Strategic Planning Executive Committee (Co-Chair, 2012-
2014), Standing Committee on Experiential Learning (2011-2013), Standing
Committee on Washington, D.C. Program (2011), Provost’s Advisory Committee for
Promotion and Tenure (2008), Ad Hoc Committee on Bar Passage (2007-2008),
Promotion & Tenure Committee (2006-2007, 2008-09), Judicial Clerkship
Committee (2004-Present), Building Committee (2003-2006), Rankings Evaluation
Committee (2003-04), Library & Technology Committee (2002-2006, Chair 2002-
03), Upper-Level Writing Requirement Committee (2002-2003), RAW Program
Evaluation Committee (2001-2003)
Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, May 2019-Present
Director, Center for Business Law & Regulation, January 2007 – May 2019
Co-Director, Center for Business Law & Regulation, July – December 2006
Associate Director, Center for Business Law & Regulation, July 2003 – 2006
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Arlington, Virginia
Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Fall 2005
AWARDS AND HONORS
Eighth Most Cited Law Professor in Public Law (excluding Constitutional Law), 2013-2017,
Brian Leiter’s Law School Rankings, August 2018.
(Only professor in top 10 under age 50 at time of study.)
Elected member of American Law Institute, 2018.
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Eighth Most Cited Law Professor in Administrative and/or Environmental Law, 2010-2014,
Brian Leiter’s Law School Rankings, May 2016.
(Only professor in top 10 under age 50 at time of study.)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law Distinguished Research Award (2014-15).
Top 14 Health Care Mover & Shaker, American Healthline (2014).
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Friends Central School (2012)
Inaugural holder of the Johan Verheij Memorial Professorship at the Case Western Reserve
University School of Law (2011)
LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENT LAW REVIEW 2009-10 (compendium of ten best articles in land-
use and environmental law), Money or Nothing: The Adverse Environmental Consequences
of Uncompensated Land-Use Controls, 49 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 301 (2008)
Finalist, LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENT LAW REVIEW 2008-09 (compendium of ten best articles
in land-use and environmental law), When Is Two a Crowd: The Impact of Federal Action on
State Environmental Regulation, 31 HARVARD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW 67 (2007).
2007 Distinguished Teacher Award, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Alumni
Association
Honorable Mention, Most Cited Law Professors by Specialty 2000-07 (Environmental Law),
Brian Leiter’s Law School Rankings, November 2007.
(Only environmental law professor listed under age 40 at time of study.)
2004 Paul M. Bator Award in Recognition of Excellence in Legal Scholarship, Outstanding
Commitment to Teaching and Law Students, and the Significant Public Impact of His Work,
Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies.
2001 Distinguished Young Alumnus Award, George Mason University School of Law.
Finalist, LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENT LAW REVIEW 2001-02 (compendium of ten best articles
in land-use in environmental law), Free and Green: A New Approach to Environmental
Protection, 24 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 653 (2001).
Finalist, LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENT LAW REVIEW 2001-02 (compendium of ten best articles
in land-use in environmental law), The Ducks Stop Here? The Environmental Challenge
to Federalism, 9 SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW 205 (2001).
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
LET FIFTY FLOWERS BLOOM: ENVIRONMENTAL FEDERALISM FOR THE 21
ST
CENTURY
(Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Editor, MARIJUANA FEDERALISM: UNCLE SAM AND MARY JANE (Brookings Institution
Press, 2020)
Editor, BUSINESS AND THE ROBERTS COURT (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Co-Author, A CONSPIRACY AGAINST OBAMACARE: THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY AND THE
HEALTH CARE CASE (2013).
Editor, REBUILDING THE ARK: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
REFORM (2011).
Editor, ECOLOGY, LIBERTY & PROPERTY: A FREE MARKET ENVIRONMENTAL READER
(2000).
Editor, THE COSTS OF KYOTO: CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS (1997).
ENVIRONMENTALISM AT THE CROSSROADS: GREEN ACTIVISM IN AMERICA (1995).
Law Review Articles
Delegation and Time (w/ Christopher Walker), 105 IOWA LAW REVIEW 1931 (2020).
Is the Clean Air Act Unconstitutional? Coercion, Cooperative Federalism, and Conditional
Spending after NFIB v. Sebelius (w/ Nathaniel Stewart), 43 ECOLOGY LAW QUARTERLY 671
(2016).
Baptists, Bootleggers, and Electronic Cigarettes (w/ Roger Meiners, Andrew Morriss & Bruce
Yandle), 33 YALE JOURNAL ON REGULATION 313 (2016).
Compelled Commercial Speech and the Consumer Right-to-Know, 58 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW
421 (2016).
Learning How to Fish: Catch Shares and the Future of Fishery Conservation (with Nathaniel
Stewart), 31 UCLA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY REVIEW 150 (2013).
Taxation without Representation: The Illegal IRS Rule to Expand Tax Credits under the PPACA
(with Michael Cannon), 23 HEALTH MATRIX: JOURNAL OF LAW-MEDICINE 119 (2013).
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Eyes on a Climate Prize: Rewarding Energy Innovation to Achieve Climate Stabilization, 35
HARVARD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW 1 (2011).
(Selected to be excerpted in annual ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY REVIEW issue of
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER (2012)).
The Rest Is Silence: Chevron Deference, Agency Jurisdiction, and Statutory Silences (with
Nathan Sales), 2009 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 1497 (2009).
Money or Nothing: The Adverse Environmental Consequences of Uncompensated Land-Use
Controls, 49 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 301 (2008).
(Selected for inclusion in LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW 2009-10,
compendium of ten best articles on land use or environmental law in 2008.)
When Is Two a Crowd: The Impact of Federal Action on State Environmental Regulation, 31
HARVARD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW 67 (2007).
(Finalist, LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW 2008-09, compendium of ten best
articles on land use or environmental law in 2007.)
The Green Costs of Kelo: Economic Development Takings and Environmental Protection (with
Ilya Somin), 84 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (2006).
Reckoning with Rapanos: Revisiting “Waters of the United States” and the Limits of Federal
Wetland Regulation, 14 MISSOURI ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY REVIEW 1 (2006).
Judicial Federalism and the Future of Federal Environmental Regulation, 90 IOWA LAW
REVIEW 377 (2005).
Conservation through Collusion: Antitrust as an Obstacle to Marine Resource Conservation, 61
WASHINGTON AND LEE LAW REVIEW 3 (2004).
Fables of the Cuyahoga: Reconstructing a History of Environmental Protection, 14 FORDHAM
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL 89 (2002).
Let 50 Flowers Bloom: Transforming the States into Laboratories of Environmental Policy, 31
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 11284 (2001).
The Ducks Stop Here? The Environmental Challenge to Federalism, 9 SUPREME COURT
ECONOMIC REVIEW 205 (2001).
(Finalist, LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW, ten best articles on land use or
environmental law in 2001; reprinted in ECONOMICS OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (R. Epstein
ed. 2009)).
Free and Green: A New Approach to Environmental Protection, 24 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW
& PUBLIC POLICY 653 (2001).
(Finalist, LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW, ten best articles on land use or
environmental law in 2001.)
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More Sorry than Safe: Assessing the Precautionary Principle and the Proposed International
Biosafety Protocol, 35 TEXAS INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 173 (2000).
Wetlands, Waterfowl, and the Menace of Mr. Wilson: Commerce Clause Jurisprudence and the
Limits of Federal Wetlands Regulation, 29 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 1 (1999).
The Green Aspects of Printz: The Revival of Federalism at Its Implications for Environmental
Law, 6 GEORGE MASON LAW REVIEW 573 (1998).
Symposium Contributions
All the President’s Papers, 2019-20 CATO SUPREME COURT REVIEW (2020)
Conservative Minimalism and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, UNIVERSITY OF
CHICAGO LAW REVIEW ONLINE (2020)
Uncooperative Environmental Federalism 2.0, 71 HASTINGS LAW JOURNAL 1101 (2020).
Introduction: Property in Ecology, 59 NATURAL RESOURCES JOURNAL x (2019).
Auer Evasions, 16 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 1 (2018).
Regulatory Obstacles to Harm-Reduction: The Case of Smoking, 11 NYU JOURNAL OF
LAW & LIBERTY 712 (2017).
Introduction: In Search of the Pro-Business Court, 67 CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW
681 (2017).
The Science Charade in Species Conservation, 24 SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW
109 (2016).
Persistent Threats to Commercial Speech, 25 JOURNAL OF LAW & POLICY 289 (2016).
Restoring Chevron’s Domain, 81 MISSOURI LAW REVIEW 983 (2016).
Anti-Disruption Statutory Construction, 38 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 509 (2016).
The Senate Has No Constitutional Obligation to Consider Nominees, 24 GEO. MASON L. REV. 15
(2016).
Category Errors and Executive Power, 11 FIU LAW REVIEW 357 (2016).
Of Kings to Come: The Future of Health Care Reform Still Remains in Federal Court, 20
JOURNAL OF EMPLOYEE RIGHTS AND EMPLOYMENT POLICY 133 (2016).
King v. Burwell and the Triumph of Selective Contextualism (w/ Michael Cannon), 15 CATO
SUPREME COURT REVIEW 35 (2015).
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Dynamic Environmentalism and Adaptive Management: Legal Obstacles and Opportunities, 11
JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS & POLICY 133 (2015).
Symposium Introduction: Marijuana, Federal Power & the States, 65 CASE WESTERN RESERVE
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW 505 (2015).
Debate, King v. Burwell and the Validity of Federal Tax Subsidies under the Affordable Care
Act, 163 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW ONLINE 215 (2015),
http://www.pennlawreview.com/online/163-U-Pa-L-Rev-Online-215.pdf.
King v. Burwell: Desperately Seeking Ambiguity in Clear Statutory Text (w/ Michael Cannon),
40 JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLITICS, POLICY & LAW 577 (2015)
Robert Bork & Commercial Speech, 10 JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS & POLICY 615 (2014)
Climate Balkanization: Dormant Commerce and the Limits of State Energy Policy, 3 LSU
JOURNAL OF ENERGY LAW AND RESOURCES 153 (2014)
The Conflict of Visions in NFIB v. Sebelius, 62 DRAKE LAW REVIEW 937 (2014).
Conservative Principles for Environmental Reform, 23 DUKE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY
FORUM 253 (2013).
Placing “Reins” on Regulations: Assessing the Proposed REINS Act, 16 NYU JOURNAL OF
LEGISLATION & PUBLIC POLICY 1 (2013).
Wetlands, Property Rights, and the Due Process Deficit in Environmental Law, 12 CATO
SUPREME COURT REVIEW 139 (2012).
Eyes on a Climate Prize: Rewarding Energy Innovation to Achieve Climate Stabilization, 42
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 10712 (2012).
Water Rights, Markets, and Changing Ecological Conditions, 42 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 93
(2012).
Interstate Competition and the Race to the Top, 35 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC
POLICY 89 (2011).
The Supreme Court Disposes of a Nuisance Suit: American Electric Power v. Connecticut, 2010-
11 CATO SUPREME COURT REVIEW 295 (2011).
A Tale of Two Climate Cases, 121 YALE LAW JOURNAL ONLINE 109 (2011),
http://yalelawjournal.org/2011/09/13/adler.html.
Cooperation, Commandeering or Crowding Out? Federal Intervention and State Choices in
Health Care Policy, 20 KANSAS JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 199 (2011).
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Introduction – Symposium on Commercial Speech and Public Health, 21 HEALTH MATRIX 1
(2011).
Heat Expands All Things: The Proliferation of Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Obama
Administration, 34 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 421 (2011).
Standing Still in the Roberts Court, 59 CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW 1061 (2009).
Taking Property Rights Seriously: The Case of Climate Change, SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY & POLICY,
vol. 26, No. 2 (2009).
Business, the Environment, and the Roberts Court: A Preliminary Assessment, 49 SANTA CLARA
LAW REVIEW 943 (2009).
Getting the Roberts Court Right: A Response to Chemerinsky, 54 WAYNE LAW REVIEW 983
(2008).
Water Marketing as an Adaptive Response to the Threat of Climate Change, 31 HAMLINE LAW
REVIEW 730 (2008).
Introduction: Common Law Environmental Protection (w/ Andrew Morriss), 58 CASE WESTERN
RESERVE LAW REVIEW 575 (2008).
Reforming Our Wasteful Hazardous Waste Policies, 17 NYU ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL
724 (2008).
Hothouse Flowers: The Vices and Virtues of Climate Federalism, 17 TEMPLE POLITICAL AND
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW REVIEW 443 (2008).
God, Gaia, The Taxpayer and the Lorax: Standing, Justiciability, and Separation of Powers after
Massachusetts and Hein, 20 REGENT UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 175 (2008).
Massachusetts v. EPA Heats Up Climate Policy No Less than Administrative Law: A Comment
on Professors Watts and Wildermuth, 102 NORTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW COLLOQUY 32
(2007).
Warming Up to Climate Change Litigation, 3 VA. L. REV. IN BRIEF 61 (2007).
Back to the Future of Conservation: Changing Perceptions of Property Rights & Environmental
Protection, 1 NYU JOURNAL OF LAW & LIBERTY 987 (2005).
Jurisdictional Mismatch in Environmental Federalism, 14 NYU ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL
130 (2005).
Looking Ahead to the 2005-06 Term, CATO SUPREME COURT REVIEW 2004-05 (2005).
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Is Morrison Dead? Assessing a Supreme Drug (Law) Overdose, 9 LEWIS & CLARK LAW REVIEW
751 (2005).
Frank Meyer: The Fusionist as Federalist, PUBLIUS Vo. 34 No. 4 (Fall 2004).
The Fable of Federal Environmental Regulation, 55 CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW 93
(2004).
Remarks on Regulating Genetically Modified Foods: Is Mandatory Labeling the Right Answer?,
10 RICHMOND JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY (2004).
Introduction: The Virtues and Vices of Skeptical Environmentalism (with Andrew
Morriss), 53 CASE WESTERN LAW REVIEW 249 (2002).
Legal Obstacles to Private Ordering in Marine Fisheries, 8 ROGER WILLIAMS
UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 9 (2002).
Stand or Deliver: Citizen Suits, Standing, and Environmental Protection, 12 DUKE
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY FORUM 39 (2001).
The Cartagena Protocol and Biological Diversity: Biosafe or Bio-Sorry? 12
GEORGETOWN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW 761 (2000).
Book Contributions
Delegation, Time and the Nondelegation Baseline, TITLE TBD (P. Wallison & J. Yoo
eds., AEI Press forthcoming).
Introduction, MARIJUANA FEDERALISM: UNCLE SAM AND MARY JANE (J. Adler ed.,
Brookings Institution Press, 2020).
Environmental Protection: Final Frontier or Achilles Heel? THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK
OF CLASSICAL LIBERAL THOUGHT (T. Henderson ed., 2018).
Business as Usual? The Roberts Court and Environmental Law, in BUSINESS AND THE
ROBERTS COURT (J. Adler ed. 2016).
Introduction: In Search of the Probusiness Court, in BUSINESS AND THE ROBERTS COURT
(J. Adler ed. 2016).
The Ad Hoc Implementation and Enforcement of Health Care Reform, in LIBERTY’S
NEMESIS: THE UNCHECKED EXPANSION OF THE STATE (D. Reuter & J. Yoo eds., 2016)
The Future of Health Care Reform Remains in Federal Court, in THE FUTURE OF HEALTH
CARE REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES (M. Schill & A. Malani eds., 2015).
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(various), A CONSPIRACY AGAINST OBAMACARE: THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY AND THE
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (Trevor Burrus ed., 2013).
Judicial Minimalism, the Mandate, and Mr. Roberts, THE HEALTH CARE CASES: THE
SUPREME COURT’S DECISION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS (N. Persily, G. Metzger, & T.
Morrison, eds., 2013).
The False Promise of Federalization, in SILENT SPRING AT 50: THE FALSE CRISES OF
RACHEL CARSON (A. Morriss, R. Meiners & P. Desrochers eds. 2012).
Labeling the Little Things, THE NANOTECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE (D. Dana ed., 2011).
The Leaky Ark: The Failure of Endangered Species Regulation on Private Land,
REBUILDING THE ARK: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT REFORM (J.
Adler ed., 2011).
The Problems with Precaution: A Principle without Principle, CROP CHEMOPHOBIA (J.
Entine ed., 2010).
The Adverse Environmental Consequences of Uncompensated Land-Use Controls,
PROPERTY WRONGS: THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF TAKINGS (B. Benson ed., 2010).
Perverse Incentives and the Endangered Species Act, ISSUES OF THE DAY: 100
COMMENTARIES ON CLIMATE, ENERGY, THE ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORTATION, AND
PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY (Ian W.H. Parry & Felicia Day eds., 2010).
Taking Property Rights Seriously, THE ENVIRONMENT: PHILOSOPHY AND POLICY (Ellen
Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, eds., Cambridge University Press,
2009).
Environment, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIBERTARIANISM (R. Hamowy ed., 2008).
Once More, With Feeling: Reaffirming the Limits of Clean Water Act Jurisdiction, THE SUPREME
COURT AND THE CLEAN WATER ACT: FIVE ESSAYS ON RAPANOS (K. Wroth ed., Vermont
Environmental Law Journal, 2007).
Marsh Madness, in INCENTIVES AND CONSERVATION: THE NEXT GENERATION OF
ENVIRONMENTALISM (D. Benjamin ed., 2004).
Antitrust Barriers to Cooperative Fishery Management, in THE EVOLUTION OF PROPERTY
RIGHTS IN FISHERIES (D. Leal ed., 2004).
Letting Fifty Flowers Bloom: Using Federalism to Spur Environmental Innovation, in
THE JURISDYNAMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: CHANGE AND THE PRAGMATIC
VOICE IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (J. Chen ed., 2004).
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Do Conservation Conventions Conserve? in SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: PROMOTING
PROGRESS OR PERPETUATING POVERTY? (J. Morris, ed. 2002).
The Precautionary Principle’s Challenge to Progress, in GLOBAL WARMING AND OTHER
ECO-MYTHS (R. Bailey, ed. 2002).
Clean Politics, Dirty Profits, in POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM: GOING BEHIND THE
GREEN CURTAIN (T. Anderson, ed., 2000).
Benchmarks (w/ Peter Cazamias), in THE TRUE STATE OF THE PLANET (R. Bailey, ed., 1995).
Clean Fuels, Dirty Air, in ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: PUBLIC COSTS, PRIVATE REWARDS (M.
Greve and F. Smith, eds., 1992).
Monographs
Bootleggers, Baptists and E-Cigarettes (w/ R. Meiners, A. Morriss & B. Yandle),
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2557691 (2015).
A More Modest Court: The Ohio Supreme Court’s Newfound Judicial Restraint (w/ Christina M.
Adler) (Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, 2008).
Let Fifty Flowers Bloom: Transforming the State into Laboratories Environmental Policy
(Federalism Project/American Enterprise Institute, 2001).
Greenhouse Policy without Regrets, Lead Author (Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2000).
Environmental Performance at the Bench: The EPA's Record in Federal Court POLICY STUDY
NO. 269 (Reason Public Policy Institute, 2000).
Free Market Environmental Bibliography, 4
th
Edition, Editor (Competitive Enterprise Institute,
1996).
Property Rights, Regulatory Takings, and Environmental Protection (Competitive Enterprise
Institute, 1996).
Time to Reopen the Clean Air Act: Clearing Away the Regulatory Smog (w/ K.H. Jones), POLICY
ANALYSIS NO. 233 (Cato Institute, 1995).
Property Rights Reader, Editor (Competitive Enterprise Institute, 1995).
Taken to the Cleaners: A Case Study of the Overregulation of American Small Business POLICY
ANALYSIS NO. 233 (Cato Institute, 1993).
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Essays & Reviews
How Green Is the Roberts Court? THE ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM (Nov/Dec 2020) (cover story).
Taking Carbon to Court [Review of R. Lazarus, The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the
Supreme Court] THE NEW ATLANTIS (Fall 2020).
What Makes Marijuana Dispensaries Essential Businesses? Even When Federal Law
Technically Prohibits Them, LITHUB, June 30, 2020.
This Is the Real John Roberts, NEW YORK TIMES, July 7, 2020.
Conservative Ideology and the Environment [Review of Turner & Isenberg, The Republican
Reversal: Conservative and the Environment From Nixon to Trump], REGULATION (Summer
2020).
Is Administrative Law Immoral? (Review of Richard Epstein, The Dubious Morality of Modern
Administrative Law), NATIONAL REVIEW, May 18, 2020.
A Reply to Our Interlocutors (w/ Christopher Walker), THE REGULATORY REVIEW, March
11, 2020
Reviving Congress’s Ambition (w/ Christopher Walker), THE REGULATORY REVIEW,
March 2, 2020.
Nondelegation for the Delegators (w/ Christopher Walker), REGULATION, Spring 2020
Trump Pulled Us Out of the Paris Accord. So What’s the Conservative Playbook for
Climate Change? LOS ANGELES TIMES, Nov. 5, 2019.
Not Mandates, But Facilitation and Encouragement, THE ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM,
September/October 2019.
What’s Wrong with Chevron Deference Is Congress, NATIONAL REVIEW, June 24, 2019.
Redefining Waters of the United States, REGULATION, Summer 2019.
What the Lawless Obamacare Ruling Means (w/ Abbe Gluck), THE NEW YORK TIMES,
Dec. 15, 2018.
Hostile Environment, NATIONAL REVIEW, Oct. 15, 2018.
Justice Kavanaugh’s Wheelhouse: Administrative Law, ADMINISTRATIVE & REGULATORY
LAW NEWS, Fall 2018.
Will Kavanaugh Curb Sloppy White House Deregulation? THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 18, 2018.
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An Obamacare Case So Wrong It Has Provoked a Bipartisan Outcry” (w/ Abbe Gluck), THE
NEW YORK TIMES, June 19, 2018.
Markets the Rule, Government the Exception,” THE ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM, May/June 2018.
Constitutionally Illiterate: Roy Moore Takes a Blinkered View of the Rule of Law, THE
WEEKLY STANDARD, Nov. 15, 2017.
A Term for the Ages, NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, Sept. 29, 2017.
The Case for Fewer Lawyers (review of B. Barros & S. Bibas, Rebooting Justice), WALL
STREET JOURNAL, Sept. 7, 2017.
Pangloss and the Bureaucrats (review of A. Vermeule, Law’s Abnegation), NATIONAL
REVIEW, Feb. 6, 2017
Accounting for Dynamic Nature, PERC REPORTS, Summer 2016.
An Administrative Law Fairy Tale, LIBERTY LAW FORUM, Feb. 12, 2016.
Redefining Waters of the United States, PERC REPORTS, Winter 2015.
Review of N. Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate and N. Stern, Why Are
We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change, TIMES
LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (November 13, 2015).
Review of C. Murray, By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission, ENGAGE, VOL. 16,
NO. 3 (October 2015).
Bootleggers, Baptists, and E-Cigs (w/ R. Meiners, A. Morriss & B. Yandle), REGULATION
(Spring 2015).
Learning How to Fish (w/ Nathaniel Stewart), REGULATION, Spring 2014.
The Conservative Record on Environmental Policy (review of J. Layzer, Open for Business:
Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation), THE NEW ATLANTIS (Summer
2013).
Navigating the Coming Water Crisis (Review of L. Solomon, America’s Water and Wastewater
Crisis: The Role of Private Enterprise), LIBERTY LAW BLOG, July 12, 2013.
The D.C. Circuit Is Hardly in Crisis, THE ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM, May/June 2013.
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The Magic of the Market: The Advantages of Catch-Share Fishing (with Nathaniel Stewart), THE
MILKEN INSTITUTE REVIEW (Fourth Quarter 2012).
How Not to Label GM Foods, THE NEW ATLANTIS (Summer 2012).
Positive Steps, Silver Linings (with Nathaniel Stewart), NATIONAL REVIEW, July 30, 2012.
Is the Common Law the Free Market Solution to Pollution? CRITICAL REVIEW vol. 24, no. 1
(2012).
Some Shade of Green, NATIONAL REVIEW, December 31, 2011.
The Challenge of Regulating Objectively (review of D. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere:
Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity), THE NEW ATLANTIS (Spring 2011).
Will the REINS Act Rein in Federal Regulation? REGULATION, vol. 34, no. 2 (2011).
(Mostly) Realism on Global Warming (review of R. Pielke Jr., The Climate Fix: What Scientists
and Politicians Won’t Tell You about Global Warming), REGULATION, vol. 34, no. 1 (2011).
The Constitutionality of the Individual Mandate in the Affordable Care Act (with Erik Jensen),
BAR JOURNAL OF THE CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN BAR ASSOCIATION, March 2011.
The EPA’s Carbon Footprint, REASON (March 2010).
The Record of the Roberts Court in Environmental Cases: Pro-Business or Pro-Government?
ENGAGE, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2010).
The Clean Water Land Grab, REGULATION, vol. 32, no. 4 (2009-2010).
Kindler, Gentler Cost-Benefit Analysis (review of R. Revesz & M. Livermore, Retaking
Rationality: How Cost Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our
Health), REGULATION, vol. 32, no. 4 (2009-2010).
Conservation without Regulation: Property-Based Environmental Protection (transcript of talk
at University of Cincinnati College of Law), ENGAGE, vol. 10, Issue 2 (2009).
Warming Up to Water Markets, REGULATION, vol. 31, no. 4 (2008).
The Green Bridge to Nowhere, (review of J. Speth, The Bridge at the End of the World:
Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability), THE NEW
ATLANTIS (Fall 2008).
An Animal to Save the World, THE NEW ATLANTIS (Summer 2008).
Backing Up Words with (Intelligent, Targeted) Action, THE NEW REPUBLIC ONLINE, January 30,
2008.
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Anti-Conservation Incentives, REGULATION, vol. 30, no. 4 (2007).
Can the Golden State Catch a Greenhouse Waiver?, ENGAGE (2007).
Devaluing Science, review of R. Pielke, The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy
and Politics, THE NEW ATLANTIS (Summer 2007).
Don’t Politicize Science (Unless You’re on My Side), review of C. Mooney, The Republican War
on Science, REGULATION (Spring 2007).
Standing in the Hot-Seat: Climate Change Litigation, ENGAGE, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2007).
Prosecuting Journalists Would be Unprecedented and Unwise, NATIONAL SECURITY LAW
REPORT, Vol. 28, No. 3 (September 2006).
Review of D. Schoenbrod, Saving the Environment from Washington, INDEPENDENT REVIEW,
Vol. 10, No. 4 (Summer 2006).
How to Protect Environmental Protections? 25 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 10413 (2005)
(roundtable transcript).
A Vast-Right Wing Conspiracy: It’s Neither Vast nor a Conspiracy. Discuss, LEGAL AFFAIRS
(May-June 2005).
Conservation Cartels: How Competition Policy Conflicts with Environmental Protection,
REGULATION Vol. 27, No. 4 (2004).
The Role of the Judiciary in Preserving Federalism, 1 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC
POLICY, Symposium Issue 49 (2002).
(Review) Free Market Environmentalism Revised Edition, 22 CATO JOURNAL 182 (2002).
Judicial Federalism Not Anti-Environment, ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM, vol. 19, No. 4 (2002).
Waste & the Dormant Commerce Clause – A Reply (response to Richard Epstein), 3 GREEN BAG
2D 353 (2000).
Faux Market Environmentalism, REGULATION, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2000).
Swamp Rules: The End of Federal Wetlands Regulation? REGULATION, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1999).
There’s No Justice in EPA’s Environmental Justice Policy, 6 CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL
STRATEGY 183 (1999).
A New Environmental Federalism, FORUM FOR APPLIED RESEARCH AND PUBLIC POLICY (Winter
1998).
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Bean Counting for a Better Earth: Environmental Enforcement at the EPA, REGULATION, Vol.
21, No. 2 (1998).
Rent-Seeking Behind the Green Curtain, REGULATION, Vol. 19, No. 4 (1996).
Over 100 articles, reviews, and op-eds on environmental and regulatory policy have appeared in
various magazines and newspapers, including (but not limited to) the following:
Arizona Republic
Christian Science Monitor
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Detroit News
Hartford Courant
Indianapolis Star
Investor’s Business Daily
Legal Times
Los Angeles Times
New York Times
Orange County Register
Oregonian
Philadelphia Inquirer
Phoenix Gazette
Policy Review
The Public Interest
Richmond Times-Dispatch
San Diego Union-Tribune
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Washington Times
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
Examining the Use of Administrative Actions in the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act,
Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Oversight, U.S. House of
Representatives, May 20, 2015.
Constitutional Considerations: State vs. Federal Environmental Policy Implementation,
Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, Committee on Energy and Commerce,
U.S. House of Representatives, July 11, 2014.
IRS: Enforcing ObamaCare’s New Rules and Taxes (with Michael Cannon), Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, August 2, 2012.
The Endangered Species Act: Reviewing the Nexus of Science and Policy, Committee on
Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, U.S. House
of Representatives, October 13, 2011.
The REINS Act – Promoting Jobs and Expanding Freedom by Reducing Needless Regulations,
Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law, Committee on the Judiciary,
U.S. House of Representatives, January 24, 2011
The Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, U.S.
House of Representatives, April 16, 2008.
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Examining the Case for the California Waiver, Committee on Environment and Public Works,
U.S. Senate, May 22, 2007.
The Scope of “Waters of the United States” after Rapanos v. United States, Subcommittee on
Fisheries, Wildlife and Water, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate,
August 1, 2006.
Gas Price Act of 2005, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate, October 18,
2005.
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act Amendments of 1997, Subcommittee on
Fisheries, Conservation, Wildlife, and Oceans, U.S. House of Representatives, September 25,
1997.
The Right to Own Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, October 18, 1995.
Private Property Rights and Environmental Laws, Committee on Environment and Public
Works, U.S. Senate, July 12, 1995.
Flow Control and Interstate Transportation of Solid Waste, Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste
Control, and Risk Assessment, U.S. Senate, March 1, 1995.
Private Property Rights, Subcommittee on the Constitution, U.S. House of Representatives,
February 10, 1995.
CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA
Co-Director , “Environmental Health and the Law,” Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental
Law and Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Mar. 27,
2020. (Proceedings published as symposium in HEALTH MATRIX: THE JOURNAL LAW-
MEDICINE (2020)).
Director, “The Environmental Protection Agency Turns 50,” Coleman P. Burke Center for
Environmental Law and CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW, Case Western Reserve
University School of Law, Oct. 18, 2019.
Director, Research Workshop on “Property in Ecology,” Property & Environment
Research Center and CWRU Center for Business Law & Regulation, Case Western
Reserve University School of Law, November 9-11, 2017. ((Proceedings to be
published as symposium in NATURAL RESOURCES JOURNAL (2019).
Co-Director, “First Amendment in the Regulatory State” Research Roundtable, Center for the
Study of the Administrative State, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School,
Arlington, VA, October 26-27, 2017.
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Co-Director, “Rethinking Due Process” Research Roundtable, Center for the Study of the
Administrative State, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA,
January 26-27, 2017.
Director, 2016 Leet Symposium on Business and the Roberts Court, Center for Business Law
and Regulation, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, September 23, 2016.
Director, “Environmental Law in the Administrative State” Research Roundtable, Center
for the Study of the Administrative State, George Mason University School of Law,
Arlington, VA, May 5-6, 2016.
Co-Director, “Are Corporate Wellness Programs Hazardous to Well-Being?” conference,
Law-Medicine Center and the Center for Business Law & Regulation, Case
Western Reserve University School of Law, April 15, 2016. (Proceedings
published as symposium in HEALTH MATRIX: THE JOURNAL LAW-MEDICINE
(2017)).
Director, “The Fusion of Liberty and Tradition,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Cleveland, Ohio,
March 5-8, 2015.
Director, “Marijuana, Federal Power & the States,” Center for Business Law & Regulation, Case
Western Reserve University School of Law, September 12, 2014. (Proceedings published as
symposium in CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW (2015)).
Guest Editor, Health Matrix (Special symposium issue on commercial speech and public health),
Spring 2011.
Director, “Business Law & Regulation in the Roberts Court,” Center for Business Law &
Regulation, Case Western Reserve University, September 16-17, 2010.
Director, “Regulation by Litigation Roundtable,” Center for Business Law & Regulation, Case
Western Reserve University, September 25, 2009. (Proceedings published as book review
symposium in REGULATION GOVERNANCE (2011)).
Director, “Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform,”
American Enterprise Institute, September 15, 2009.
Director, “Civil Liberties in Wartime,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Cleveland, Ohio, June 26-29,
2008.
Co-editor (with Andrew Morriss), “Common Law Environmental Protection,” paper-only
symposium, CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW (2008)
Director, “Private Property, Government Takings, and Individual Liberty, Liberty Fund
Colloquium, San Antonio, Texas, February 28-March 2, 2008.
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Chair, “"Scheme Liability: Section 10(b), and Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific
Atlanta,” co-sponsored by the Center for Business Law & Regulation and the Corporate Law
Practice Group of the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, Cleveland, Ohio,
October 5, 2007.
Director, “Frank S. Meyer and the Fusion of Freedom and Tradition,” Liberty Fund Colloquium,
Miami, Florida, December 12-15, 2006
Conference Co-Chair (with Dean Reuter), “Eminent Domain, Urban Renewal & The
Constitution,” cosponsored by the Center for Business Law & Regulation and the Property
Rights and Environmental Law Practice Group of the Federalist Society for Law & Public
Policy Studies, Cleveland, Ohio, February 4, 2005.
Director, “Civil Liberties in Wartime,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Miami, Florida, January 13-
16, 2005.
Co-editor (with Andrew Morriss), “The Virtues and Vices of Skeptical Environmentalism,”
paper-only symposium on Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist, 53 CASE
WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW (2002).
Director, “The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications,” Competitive
Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., July 15, 1997.
A list of lectures and presentations is available on request.
SELECT LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
“Libertarian Political Theory and Environmental Protection,” Tim Hall Memorial
Symposium, Oberlin College, September 22, 2018.
“Challenges Ahead for U.S. EPA’s Regulatory Agenda,” 33rd Annual Ohio
Environment, Energy and Resources Law Seminar, Ohio State Bar Association,
Columbus, OH, April 12, 2018.
“Environmental Federalism,” George Mason University Law & Economics Center’s
Attorneys General Education Program, Nashville, TN, March 23 2018.
“Federal Environmental Regulation Reconsidered,” William and Mary Law School,
Williamsburg, VA, February 21, 2018.
Panelist, “The Regulation of Emerging Risks: Precautionary Principle or Risk v. Risk,” Judicial
Deference and Regulatory Science Symposium for Judges, Law & Economics Center at the
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA, October 7, 2017.
“The New Legal Environment for Environmental Law,” 32
nd
Annual Ohio Environment,
Energy, and Resources Law Seminar, Ohio State Bar Association, Columbus, OH,
March 31, 2017.
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“Conservation without Regulation: Property Rights, Markets and Environmental
Protection,” Hope College, Holland, MI, March 8, 2017.
“Regulatory Obstacles to Harm Reduction: The Case of Tobacco,” Medical Innovation
and the Law conference, Classical Liberal Institute at the NYU School of Law,
February 22, 2017.
Panelist, “Horizontal Separation of Powers,” Florida International University Law
Review Separation of Powers Symposium, Florida International University School of
Law, March 11, 2016.
“Restoring Chevron’s Domain,” Missouri Law Review conference, “Beyond the
Administrative State,” University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, Missouri,
March 3, 2016.
“From Delegation to Abdication,” Conference on “New Challenges to Constitutional
Law,” Center for Political Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University, Tempe,
AZ, February 19, 2016.
“Of Kings to Come: The Future of Health Care Reform Still Remains in Federal Court,”
Section on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, 110
th
Association of
American Law Schools Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 9, 2016.
“Obergefell v. Hodges: Same-sex Marriage and the Supreme Court,” Center for the Study of
American Democracy, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, October 10, 2015.
“Federalism and Environmental Protection,” 2015 Ohio Attorney General’s Office Staff Retreat,
Mount Sterling, Ohio, April 22, 2015.
“Conservative Conservation: Property Rights & Environmental Protection,” Annual Stranahan
Lecture, University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo, Ohio, March 25, 2015.
Air & Waste Management Association
Akron Press Club
American Bar Association Section on
Administrative Law
American Bar Association Section on
Environment, Energy & Resources
American Constitution Society
American Council on Germany
American Enterprise Institute
American Iron & Steel Institute
America’s Future Foundation
American Society of Civil Engineers
Association of American Law Schools
Bill of Rights Institute
Boston University Law School
Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine
Cato Institute
Cement Kiln Recycling Coalition
Center for American Progress
City Club of Cleveland
Cleveland Area Civil Trial Attorneys
Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
Cleveland-Marshall School of Law
Close-Up Foundation
Collegiate Network
Columbia Law School
Drake University Constitutional Law Center
Duke University Law School
Federal Bar Association, Northeast Ohio
Chapter
Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy
Studies
Florida State University School of Law
Food & Drug Law Institute
Forest Landowners Association
Foundation for Research on Economics &
the Environment
George Mason University School of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Hamilton College
Harvard Law School
Heritage Foundation
Hiram College
Industrial College of the Armed Forces
Institute for Humane Studies
Institute for Law and Economics
Kenyon College
Kinship Conservation Institute
Law & Economics Center
Leadership Institute
Lewis & Clark College
Liberty Fund
Mont Pelerin Society
Montana State University
National Association of Manufacturers
Nevada Water Resources Association
New York University School of Law
North American Association for
Environmental Education
Northwestern University School of Law
Oberlin College
Ohio State Bar Associaiton
Penn State University Dickinson School of
Law
Property & Environment Research Center
Progress & Freedom Foundation
Regent Law School
Rhodes College
Santa Clara University School of Law
Skeptics Society
Social Philosophy and Policy Center
Society of Environmental Journalists
Southeastern Association of Law Schools
Southern Economic Association
Tennessee-Tombigbee Water Development
Authority
University of Chicago Law School
University of Kansas School of Law
University of Maine at Machias
University of Minnesota School of Law
University of North Carolina Law School
University of Pennsylvania Law School
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
University of Richmond School of Law
University of San Diego School of Law
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of
Law,
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Vanderbilt Climate Change Research
Network
Vermont Law School
Wabash College
Whitman College
Williams College
World Presidents Organization (WPO)
Yale Law School
Yale Political Union, Yale University
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Yale School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies
Young Presidents Organization (YPO)
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Appearances on national radio and television programs including: PBS NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer, CNN World News Tonight, MSNBC, CNN Moneyline with Lou Dobbs, Fox News
Channel O’Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel Hannity & Colmes, ABC World News Tonight,
National Public Radio Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio Dianne Rehm Show, National
Public Radio Living on Earth, CNN, and Entertainment Tonight, among others.
Print media citations have included The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,
Los Angeles Times, The Economist, Newsweek, National Law Journal, ABA Journal, Legal
Times, Newsweek, Philadelphia Inquirer, Christian Science Monitor, U.S. News & World
Report, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, among others.
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PEER REVIEW
Have conducted academic peer review of manuscripts and proposals for the following journals
and publishers.
AEI Press
Aspen Publishers
Cambridge University Press
ELECTION LAW JOURNAL
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
FOOD POLICY
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES
JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLITICS, POLICY AND LAW
Mercatus Center, George Mason University
Oxford University Press
ADDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE, George Mason University
Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA
Senior Fellow, 2015 – 2019
PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER, Bozeman, MT
Senior Fellow, Fall 2011—Present
Lone Mountain Fellow, Summer 2009, Summer 2011
Julian Simon Summer Research Fellow, Summer 2004
Broadbent Summer Research Fellow, Summer 1998
MERCATUS CENTER, Arlington, VA
Visiting Senior Scholar, August 2005 – July 2006.
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT, Washington, DC
Clerk for The Honorable David B. Sentelle, Circuit Judge, August 2000 – July 2001
KIRKLAND & ELLIS, Washington, DC
Summer Associate, Summer 2000
Law Clerk, Fall 1999 – April 2000
Summer Associate, Summer 1999
COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE, Washington, DC
Senior Fellow in Environmental Policy, September 1999 – May 2000
Director of Environmental Studies, July 1995 – May 1999
Associate Director of Environmental Studies, January 1994 – July 1995
Environmental Policy Analyst, June 1991 – January 1994
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CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC
Visiting Lecturer, Spring 1999
Course: Environmental Politics and Policy seminar
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE, Philadelphia, PA
Member, 2018 – Present
BIPARTISAN JUDICIAL ADVISORY COMMISSION, Ohio
Member, 2018, 2019
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE, George Mason University
Antonin Scalia Law School, Arlington, VA
Advisory Council, 2019 – Present
ENERGY & ENTERPRISE INITIATIVE, Fairfax, VA
Advisory Council, 2013 – Present
FREE STATE FOUNDATION, Rockville, MD
Board of Academic Advisors, 2012 – Present
FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON ECONOMICS & ENVIRONMENT, Bozeman, MT
Board of Trustees, 2008 – Present
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INSTITUTE, Washington, DC
Environmental Law Reporter and ELI Press Advisory Board, 2007 – Present.
MONT PELERIN SOCIETY
Member, 2004 – Present
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE, Claremont Institute, Claremont, CA
Academic Advisory Board, 2004 – 2020.
THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY, Legal blog, http://volokh.com
Contributor, 2002 – Present.
SMALL BUSINESS LEGAL CENTER, National Federation of Independent Business
Advisory Board, August 2002 – November 2010, December 2013-Present.
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE
Contributing Editor, July 2002 – Present.
CATO SUPREME COURT REVIEW, Cato Institute, Washington, DC
Academic Advisory Board, February 2002 – Present.
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AMERICA’S FUTURE FOUNDATION, Washington, DC
Member, Board of Directors, July 2001 – September 2006
INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES
Felix Morley Journalism Competition Review Committee, 2001- 2009.
THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY, Washington, DC
Executive Committee, Environmental Law and Property Rights Practice Group,
July 2002 -- Present
Vice Chair, Environmental Law and Property Rights Practice Group, 1998 – May 2000
BAR ADMISSIONS
Virginia – October 2000
EDUCATION
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Arlington, Virginia
Juris Doctor, May 2000
Graduated Summa cum laude; Class Valedictorian
George Mason Law Review, Articles Editor 1998-1999
Dean’s Scholar (legal writing instructor), 1999-2000
Richard S. Murphy Prize (awarded for academic achievement in core courses), 1999
Adrian S. Fisher Award for best student law review article, 1997-98
First Place, First-Year Moot Court Competition, 1997
Senator Leroy S. Bendheim Scholarship, 1996-97.
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Connecticut
Bachelor of Arts, History, May 1991
Graduated Magna cum laude
Distinction in Major
National Merit Scholar
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