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HARI MICHELE OSOFSKY
Robins Kaplan Professor
Faculty Director, Energy Transition Lab
Director, Joint Degree Program in Law, Science & Technology
University of Minnesota Law School
229 – 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 625-1038 (tel); (612) 625-2011(fax)
[email protected]
Education
University of Oregon, Ph.D., Geography, June 2013
• Dissertation: Scales of Law: Rethinking Climate Change Governance
Yale Law School, J.D., June 1998
• Felix S. Cohen Prize for the best student paper relating to legal philosophy
• Khosla Memorial Fund Prize for the student who best demonstrates an active engagement in
advancing the values of human dignity in the international arena
• Yale Law Journal, Book Reviews Editor (Committee Coordinator)
• Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, Founder & Editor-in-Chief
• Environmental Protection Clinic
• Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic, Team Leader
• Lowenstein International Human Rights Project, Director
Yale College, B.A., magna cum laude, May 1993
Distinction in both majors, Philosophy and Studies in the Environment
• Commendation from the President and Fellows of Yale College for outstanding leadership in the
service of the New Haven community
• 44 Public Speaking Honors including: 2nd Place National Team of the Year; National
Championships, 6th Place Speaker; North-American Championships, 12th Place Team
Current Academic Position
University of Minnesota Law School, Robins Kaplan Professor
Professor with Tenure (2013–present); Associate Professor with Tenure (2010–2013)
Interdisciplinary Appointments and Leadership Roles
• Energy Transition Lab: Founding Director (2013–14); Faculty Director (2014–Present)
• Director, Joint Degree Program in Law, Science & Technology (2013–Present)
• Faculty Member, Conservation Sciences Graduate Program (2011–Present)
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Society (2011–Present)
• Fellow, Institute on the Environment (2011–Present)
• Interim Director, Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences and
Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences (2012–2013)
• Associate Director of Law, Geography & Environment, Consortium on Law and Values in Health,
Environment & the Life Sciences (2010–2012)
Honors and Chairs
• 2015 Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award, which recognizes women faculty at the
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities who have achieved significant national and international
accomplishments and honors and who contribute as leaders on campus.
• 2014–15 Julius E. Davis Chair in Law
• 2013–14 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs
• Lampert Fesler Research Fellow (2011)
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Professional Leadership Positions
American Society of International Law
• Executive Council: Member (2011–14); Membership Committee Co-Chair (2012–Present); Book
Awards Committee (2011–12)
• Interest Groups: International Environmental Law Co-Chair (2015–Present); ASIL-Midwest CoChair (2013–14); Rights of Indigenous Peoples Co-Chair (2006–2008)
• 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in
Paris, France: Delegation Chair (2015)
• Annual Meeting: Co-Chair (2010); Program Committee (2008)
• Research Forum: Program Committee (2012)
• ASIL Benchbook Editorial Advisory Committee (2010–Present)
Association of American Law Schools
• 2017 Workshop for New Law School Teachers: Planning Committee Member (2016–Present)
• Section on International Law: Executive Committee (2009–2014)
• Section on Property Law: Chair (2013–14); Chair-Elect, (2012–13); Executive Committee (2006,
2010–12; 2014–2016)
• Section on Natural Resources and Energy Law, Executive Advisory Committee (2015–Present)
Association for Law, Property, and Society
• Officer Positions: President (2012–2013); President-Elect (2011–12); Treasurer (2010–2011)
• Board of Directors: Member (2010–14); Ex Officio Member (2014–Present)
• Annual Meeting: Co-Organizer and Host (2013)
• Committees: Mentoring (2013–Present); Nominating (2010–2013)
International Bar Association’s Model Statute on Climate Change Remedies Working Group
• Member (2015–Present)
International Law Association
• Committee on the Legal Principles Relating to Climate Change (2009–2014)
• International Law Weekend: Co-Chair (2007); Organizing Committee (2006)
• International Law Weekend – West: Co-Chair (2005); Organizing Committee (2007, 2003)
• International Law Weekend – Midwest: Organizing Committee (2013)
Junior International Law Scholars Association
• Co-Organizer (2005–2007)
Society of American Law Teachers (SALT)
• Board of Governors (2010–Present); Chair, Pipeline Committee (2011, 2014–Present).
Climate Law
• Editorial Board Member (2009-Present)
Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation
• National Advisory Board member (2009–Present)
Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities
• Editorial Board Member (2011 Carolina Academic Press)
Climate Legacy Initiative
• Consultants Working Group (2008–2009)
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Honors and Grant Awards
Association for Law, Property, and Society’s 2016 Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes
faculty for “using their expertise to improve the quality of people’s lives locally, nationally, or
internationally; serving as mentors to junior faculty and others interested in teaching and research in
property law; and serving and enlarging the community of property law scholars”
University of North Carolina, Center for Law, Environment, Adaptation & Resources (CLEAR) Scholar
of the Month (November 2014)
Article selected for and two articles runners up for Land Use and Environment Law Review’s compilation
of the top land use and environmental law articles
Article awarded the Daniel B. Luten Award for the best paper by a professional geographer by the Energy
and Environment Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers
Awarded Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant, Devising a Legal Blueprint for
Corporate Energy Transition (with Jacqueline Peel and Brett McDonnell for $293,052) (2017–19)
Awarded Department of Energy Grant, Minnesota Local Government Energy Planning Project (as part of
Energy Transition Lab team with Minnesota Department of Commerce, Division of Energy
Resources; LHB; Center for Science, Technology & Environmental Policy, University of Minnesota;
Great Plains Institute) (Energy Transition Lab share is $52,750) (2016–18)
Awarded Institute of Advanced Studies Research and Creative Collaborative Grant, Clean Energy Access
Collaborative (with Tom Fisher, Cameran Bailey, and Massoud Amin for $12,000) (2016–17)
Awarded Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant, Transition to a Clean Energy Future:
The Role of Climate Change Litigation in Shaping our Regulatory Path (with Jacqueline Peel for
$250,000) (2013–16)
Awarded Sustainability Research Grant from the Carlson School and Wells Fargo Foundation (with
Jacqueline Peel and Brett McDonnell for $25,960)
Awarded grant from University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study for Linking Climate Change
Mitigation and Adaptation (with Bradley C. Karkkainen for $10,000)
Awarded mini-grants from University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment to support interuniversity research team on public utility commissions’ roles in climate change and clean energy
(with Alexandra Klass and Elizabeth Wilson for $4500 total)
Awarded fellowship with Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs for Learning from
Environmental Justice: A New Model for International Environmental Rights (2003–04)
Previous Academic Positions
Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, VA
• Associate Professor (2008–2010)
University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR
• Assistant Professor (2006–2008); Visiting Assistant Professor (2005–06)
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Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA
• Assistant Professor and Director, Center for International and Comparative Law (2003–2006)
Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT
• Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 2002); Summer Faculty (2003)
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
• Adjunct Professor (Spring 2003)
Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University School of Law, Guangzhou, China
• Visiting Scholar; Yale-China Legal Education Fellow; China Law Center Fellow (2001–02)
Yale College of Arts and Sciences, New Haven, CT
• Visiting Lecturer (Spring 1998)
Additional Professional Experience
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, London, United Kingdom
• Consultant (2015–Present)
Center for Law in the Public Interest, Los Angeles, CA
• Fellow working on public interest impact litigation, with focus on environmental justice (1999–2001)
Judge Dorothy W. Nelson, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Pasadena, CA
• Law Clerk (1998–99)
Global Environment and Trade Study (GETS), New Haven, CT
• Assistant Director for Programs (1995–97)
Supportive Children’s Advocacy Network (SCAN), New York, NY
• Part-time Development Assistant to Executive Director (1994–1995)
New York City Department of General Services, New York, NY
• Urban Fellow working on the agency’s Quality Management Initiative (1993–1994)
Additional Law School and University Service
University of Minnesota
• University of Minnesota Grand Challenges Working Group, Enhancing Individual and Community
Capacity for a Change World (2016–Present)
• University of Minnesota Law School Dean Search Committee (2016)
• Chair, University of Minnesota Law School Interdisciplinary and Joint Degree Committee (2011–
Present)
• University of Minnesota Law School Workshops/Faculty Works-in-Progress Committee (2011–2016)
• University of Minnesota Faculty Senate (Spring 2011)
• University of Minnesota Law School Admissions Committee (2010–2011)
Washington and Lee University
• Washington and Lee University Sustainability Committee (2008–2010)
• Educational Planning and Curriculum Committee, Washington and Lee University School of Law
(2008–2010)
• Faculty Advisor, Environmental Law Society, Washington and Lee University School of Law (2008–
2010)
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Faculty Advisor, Journal of Energy, Climate, and Environment, Washington and Lee University
School of Law (2008–2010)
Faculty Advisor, Jewish Law Students Society, Washington and Lee University School of Law
(2009–2010)
Ad Hoc International Programs Committee, Washington and Lee University School of Law (2008–
09)
Task Force on Law School LL.M. Program, Washington and Lee University School of Law (Spring
2008)
University of Oregon
• Curriculum Committee, University of Oregon School of Law (2006–2008)
• Co-Chair, Legal Theory Workshop, University of Oregon School of Law (2006–2008)
• Faculty Advisor, Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Team (2006–2008)
• Faculty Advisor, Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation (2007–2008)
• Faculty Advisor, Oregon Review of International Law (2005–2008)
• Faculty Advisor, Minority Law Students Association (2006–2007)
Whittier Law School
• Chair, LLM Committee, Whittier Law School (2004–05)
• Curriculum Committee, Whittier Law School (2004–05)
• Chair, Center for Int’l and Comparative Law Committee, Whittier Law School (2003–05)
• Library and Technology Committee, Whittier Law School (2003–04)
Additional Public and Professional Service
Experiential Teaching with Government and NGO Clients
• Supervisor of Class Contributions by Civil Rights and Social Justice Capstone to Neighborhoods
Organizing for Change and Clean Energy Access Collaborative (2016)
• Supervisor of Class Contributions by Environmental and Energy Justice Capstone to the Metropolitan
Design Lab, Northwest Arctic Borough, and Twin Cities Metropolitan Council (2015)
• Supervisor of Class Contributions by Climate Change and Clean Energy Capstone to the American
Great Plains Institute, Hennepin County, and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (2014)
• Supervisor of Class Contributions by Climate Change and Clean Energy Capstone to the American
Wind Energy Association, Great Plains Institute, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota
Public Utility Commission, and National Research Regulatory Institute (2011)
• Supervisor of Class Contributions by Renewable Energy Seminar to the University of Minnesota and
to the Phillips Community (2011)
• Supervisor of Class Contributions by Environmental Justice and the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Seminar to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
(2010)
• Supervisor of Class Contributions by Climate Change Litigation Practicum and Climate Change and
Environmental Law Seminar to Southern Environmental Law Center (2008–2010)
• Advisor to the Western Environmental Law Center on Climate Change Litigation and Supervisor of
Class Contributions by Climate Change Litigation seminar to them (2007–2008)
• Supervisor of Environmental Justice class contribution to Earthjustice’s Annual Submission to the
U.N. Human Rights Commission on Environmental Human Rights (2004–2006)
Legal Advocacy
• Lead Counsel on Amicus Curiae Brief of International Law Professors and Other International Law
Experts in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants in Sahu v. Union Carbide Corp. (with Co-Counsel, Martin
Wagner of Earthjustice & Daniel B. Magraw, Jr. of The Center for International Environmental Law)
• Contributor to petition on behalf of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference to the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights regarding climate change
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Reviews
• Presses and Journals: Reviewer for Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Aspen
Publishers, Cambridge University Press, Environment and Planning A, Environmental Politics,
Geografiska Annaler B, International Journal of Human Rights, MIT Press, National Science
Foundation, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Professional Geographer, Progress in
Human Geography, Routledge, RFF Press, Sinauer Associates, Stanford Journal of Law, Science, and
Policy, Stanford Law Review, Stanford University Press, Transnational Environmental Law, and
World Resources Institute
• Tenure and Promotion: Reviewer for Arizona State University College of Law, Brooklyn Law
School, FIU College of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Hofstra Law School, Loyola Law
School – Los Angeles, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Rutgers University Department
of Human Ecology, SUNY Buffalo Law School, University of Arizona Department of Geography and
Development, University of Colorado Law School, University of Connecticut School of Law,
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, University of Hawai’i School of Law, University of
Hong Kong Faculty of Law, University of Houston Law Center, University of Kansas School of Law,
University of New Mexico Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of
Miami School of Law, University of Oregon School of Law, Vermont Law School, and West
Virginia University College of Law
Secondary Schools
• Saint Paul Academy Annual Fund, Lower School Division Co-Chair (2015–16); New Parent CoChair (2014–15); Grade Level Volunteer (2010–14)
• Saint Paul Academy Lower School Parents Association, Committee Co-Chair for Volunteers and
Outreach (2015–2016); Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion (2012–2015); Asst. Vice President
for Diversity and Inclusion (2011–2012)
• Woods Creek Montessori Board of Directors (2009–10)
Publications
Books
• AMERICAN CLASSICS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
(Hari M. Osofsky ed.) (Edited Volume in American Classics of International Law Series, edited by
W. Michael Reisman) (forthcoming 2017, Brill).
• JACQUELINE PEEL & HARI M. OSOFSKY, CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION: REGULATORY
PATHWAYS TO CLEANER ENERGY? (2015, Cambridge University Press).
• LINCOLN L. DAVIES, ALEXANDRA B. KLASS, HARI M. OSOFSKY, JOE TOMAIN & ELIZABETH
WILSON, ENERGY LAW AND POLICY (2014, West Academic Publishers).
• HARI M. OSOFSKY & LESLEY K. MCALLISTER, CLIMATE CHANGE LAW AND POLICY (Elective
Series) (2012, Aspen Publishers).
• ADJUDICATING CLIMATE CHANGE: STATE, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES
(William C.G. Burns & Hari M. Osofsky, eds.) (2009, Cambridge University Press).
Articles in Law Reviews and Interdisciplinary Peer-Review Journals
• Jacqueline Peel & Hari M. Osofsky, Energy Partisanship, 65 EMORY L.J. 695 (2016).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Jessica Shadian & Sara L. Fechtelkotter, Arctic Energy Cooperation, 49 U.C.
DAVIS L. REV. 1431 (2016).
• Hari M. Osofsky & Hannah J. Wiseman, Regional Energy Governance and U.S. Carbon Emissions
43 ECOL. L. Q. 143 (2016).
• Jacqueline Peel & Hari M. Osofsky, Sue to Adapt, 99 MINN. L. REV. 2133 (2015).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Rethinking the Geography of Local Climate Action: Multi-Level Network
Participation in Metropolitan Regions, 2015 UTAH L. REV. 173.
• Hari M. Osofsky & Hannah J. Wiseman, Hybrid Energy Governance 2014 ILL. L. REV. 1.
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Hari M. Osofsky & Jacqueline Peel, Litigation’s Regulatory Pathways and the Administrative State:
Lessons from U.S. and Australian Climate Change Governance 25 GEORGETOWN INT’L ENVTL L.
REV. 207 (2013).
Jacqueline Peel & Hari M. Osofsky, The Role of Litigation in Multilevel Climate Change
Governance: Possibilities for a Lower Carbon Future?, 30 ENVT’L & PLANNING L.J. 303 (2013)
(accepted through peer review).
Jacqueline Peel & Hari M. Osofsky, Climate Change Litigation’s Regulatory Pathways: A
Comparative Analysis of the United States and Australia, 35 L. & POL’Y 150 (2013) (accepted
through peer review).
Hari M. Osofsky & Hannah J. Wiseman, Dynamic Energy Federalism, 72 MARYLAND L.
REV. 773 (2013).
Hari M. Osofsky, Suburban Climate Change Efforts: Possibilities for Small and Nimble Cities
Participating in State, Regional, National, and International Networks, 22 CORNELL J. L. & PUB.
POL’Y 35 (2012).
Hari M. Osofsky, Kate Baxter-Kauf, Bradley Hammer, Ann Mailander, Brett Mares, Amy Pikovsky,
Andrew Whitney & Laura Wilson, Environmental Justice and the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill,
20 N.Y.U. ENVT’L L.J. 99 (2012).
Hari M. Osofsky, Multidimensional Governance and the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, 63
FLORIDA L. REV 1077 (2011) (selected for Land Use and Environment Law Review’s compilation
of the top land use and environmental law articles).
Hari M. Osofsky, The Role of Climate Change Litigation in Establishing the Scale of Energy
Regulation, 101 ANNALS ASSOC. AM. GEOGRAPHERS 775 (2011) (accepted through peer review
process for special issue on Energy).
Hari M. Osofsky, Diagonal Federalism and Climate Change: Implications for the Obama
Administration, 62 ALABAMA L. REV. 237 (2011) (winner of the Association of American
Geographers’ Climate Specialty Group’s Student Paper Competition).
Hari M. Osofsky, Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Reflections on Litigation over Oil
Extraction and Rights Violations in Nigeria, 1 JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE
ENVIRONMENT 189 (2010) (solicited; accepted through peer review process).
Hari M. Osofsky, The Continuing Importance of Climate Change Litigation, 1 CLIMATE LAW 3
(2010) (solicited; accepted through peer review process as lead article of inaugural journal issue).
Hari M. Osofsky, Is Climate Change “International”?: Litigation’s Diagonal Regulatory Role, 49
VA. J. INT’L L. 585 (2009).
Hari M. Osofsky, The Geography of Justice Wormholes: Dilemmas from Property and Criminal Law,
53 VILLANOVA L. REV. 117 (2008).
Hari M Osofsky, The Geography of Climate Change Litigation Part II: Narratives of Massachusetts
v. EPA, 8 CHICAGO J. INT’L L. 573 (2008) (awarded the Daniel B. Luten Award for the best
paper by a professional geographer by the Energy and Environment Specialty Group of the
Association of American Geographers).
Hari M. Osofsky & Janet Koven Levit, The Scale of Networks: Local Climate Change Coalitions, 8
CHICAGO J. INT’L L. 409 (2008).
Hari M. Osofsky, Climate Change Litigation as Pluralist Legal Dialogue?, 26 STANFORD ENVTL.
L.J. & 43 STANFORD J. INT’L L. 181 (2007) (Joint Issue) (runner-up for Land Use and
Environment Law Review’s compilation of the top land use and environmental law articles).
Hari M. Osofsky, A Law and Geography Perspective on the New Haven School, 32 YALE J. INT’L L.
421 (2007) (selected for Yale Journal of International Law Young Scholars Conference).
Hari M. Osofsky, The Geography of Climate Change Litigation: Implications for Transnational
Regulatory Governance, 83 WASH. U. L.Q. 1789 (2005) (actual publication in 2006) (runner-up for
Land Use and Environment Law Review’s compilation of the top land use and environmental law
articles).
Hari M. Osofsky, Learning from Environmental Justice: A New Model for International
Environmental Rights, 24 STANFORD ENVTL. L.J. 71 (2005).
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Book Chapters
• Hari M. Osofsky, Polycentrism and Climate Change in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL
LAW (Daniel Farber & Marjan Peeters, eds.) (2016, Edward Elgar Publishing).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Jessica Shadian & Sara L. Fechtelkotter, Preventing and Responding to Arctic
Offshore Drilling Disasters: The Role of Hybrid Cooperation, in ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (Jacqueline Peel & David Fisher, eds)
(2016, Brill Publishers).
• Hari M. Osofsky & Hannah J. Wiseman, Federalism, Institutional Design, and Environmental
Compliance Possibilities for Hybrid Mechanisms, in NEXT GENERATION ENVIRONMENTAL
COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT (2014, Environmental Law Institute).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Complexities of Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on Indigenous Peoples
through International Law Petitions: A Case Study of the Inuit Petition to the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights in CLIMATE CHANGE, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE SEARCH
FOR LEGAL REMEDIES (Randall S. Abate and Elizabeth Kronk, eds.) (2012, Edward Elgar
Publishing).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Suburban Climate Change Efforts in Minnesota: Implications for Multi-Level
Strategies, in LOCAL CLIMATE CHANGE LAW: ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IN CITIES AND
OTHER LOCALITIES (Benjamin R. Richardson, ed.) (2012, Edward Elgar Publishing).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Dispute Resolution Processes, in INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE ERA OF
CLIMATE CHANGE (Rosemary Rayfuse & Shirley V. Scott, eds.) (2012, Edward Elgar Publishing).
• Hari M. Osofsky, The Creation of the International Law of Climate Change Complexities of SubState Actors, in NON STATE ACTORS, SOFT LAW AND PROTECTIVE REGIMES 355 (Cecilia M.
Bailliet, ed.) (2012, Cambridge University Press).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Technology Transfer and Climate Change, in SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFER: A GUIDE TO GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT (Hans Henrik Lidgard, Jeffery Atik & Tu Thanh Nguyen, eds.) (2011, Edward Elgar Publishing).
• Hari M. Osofsky, The Intersection of Scale, Science, and Law in Massachusetts v. EPA, 9 OREGON
R. INT’L L. 233 (2007) (actual publication 2008) (Symposium Issue) (reprinted in ADJUDICATING
CLIMATE CHANGE: STATE, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES (William C.G.
Burns & Hari M. Osofsky, eds.) (2009, Cambridge University Press)).
• Hari M. Osofsky, The Right to Frozen Water: The Institutional Spaces for Supranational Climate
Change Petitions, in PROGRESS IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: CONFRONTING THE 21ST
CENTURY (Rebecca Bratspies and Russell Miller, eds.) (2008, Martinus Nijhoff).
• Hari M. Osofsky, The Inuit Petition as a Bridge?: Beyond Dialectics of Climate Change and
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, 31 AM. INDIAN L. REV. 675 (2007) (Symposium Issue) (reprinted in
ADJUDICATING CLIMATE CHANGE: STATE, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES
(William C.G. Burns & Hari M. Osofsky, eds.) (2009, Cambridge University Press)).
Shorter Symposium Articles and Book Reviews
• Jacqueline Peel & Hari M. Osofsky, The Grass Is Not Always Greener: Congressional Dysfunction,
Executive Action, and Climate Change in Comparative Perspective, 91 CHICAGO-KENT L. REV.139
(2016) (Symposium Issue).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Complex Value Choices at the Environment-Energy Interface, 3 MICH. J. ENVTL.
& ADMIN L. 261 (2014) (Symposium Issue).
• Hari M. Osofsky, The Geography of Solving “Global” Environmental Problems: Reflections on
Polycentric Efforts to Address Climate Change, 58 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 777 (2013-14) (Symposium
Issue).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Mapping International Environmental Law: A Review of THE OXFORD
HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunée & Ellen
Hey, eds., 2007), 106 AM. J. INT’L L. 715 (2012).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Keith Aoki--Darth Remainder, Duck, and Ninja for Social Justice: A Model of
Being There for People in Moments of Vulnerability, 45 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1699 (2012).
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Hari M. Osofsky, The Geography of Moo Ha Ha: Keith Aoki’s Contributions to Critical Geography,
90 OR. L. REV. 1233 (2012).
Hari M. Osofsky, Litigation’s Role in the Path of U.S. Federal Climate Change Regulation:
Implications of AEP v. Connecticut, 46 VALPARAISO U. L. REV. 447 (2012).
Hari M. Osofsky, Climate Change and Crises of International Law: Possibilities for Geographic
Reenvisioning, 44 CASE W. RES. J. INT’L L. 423 (2011).
Hari M. Osofsky, AEP v. Connecticut’s Implications for the Future of Climate Change Litigation,
YALE L.J. ONLINE (2011).
Hari M. Osofsky, Multiscalar Governance and Climate Change: Reflections on the Role of States and
Cities at Copenhagen, 25 MARYLAND J. INT’L L. 64 (2010).
Hari M. Osofsky, The Future of Environmental Law and Complexities of Scale: Federalism
Experiments with Climate Change under the Clean Air Act, 32 WASH. U. J.L. & POL’Y 79 (2010).
Hari M. Osofsky, Scaling “Local”: The Implications of Greenhouse Gas Regulation in San
Bernardino County, 30 MICH. J. INT’L L. 689 (2009).
Hari M. Osofsky, Climate Change Legislation in Context, 102 NW. U. L. REV. COLLOQUY 245
(2008).
Hari M. Osofsky, Local Approaches to Transnational Corporate Responsibility: Mapping
the Role of Sub-National Climate Change Litigation, 20 PAC. MCGEORGE GLOBAL BUS. & DEV.
L.J. 143 (2007) (Symposium Issue).
Hari M. Osofsky, The Geography of the North American Commission for Environmental
Cooperation's Citizen Submissions Process: Mapping the State-Corporate Regulatory Dynamic, 14
MICH. ST. J. INT’L L. 463 (2006).
Hari M. Osofsky, Defining Sustainable Development After Earth Summit 2002, 26 LOYOLA L.A.
INT’L & COMP. 111 (2003).
Student Publications
• Hari M. Osofsky, Domesticating International Criminal Law: Providing Justice Against Severe
Human Rights Violators, 107 YALE L.J. 191 (1997) (Student Note) (reprinted in LIBRARY OF
ESSAYS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: JURISDICTION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (1999)).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Environmental Human Rights Under the Alien Tort Claims Act: Redress for
Indigenous Victims of Multinational Corporations, 20 SUFFOLK TRANSNAT’L L. REV. 335 (1997).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Foreign Sovereign Immunity from Severe Human Rights Violations: New
Directions for Common Law Based Approaches, 11 NEW YORK INT'L L. REV. 35 (1997).
Other Writing
• HARI M. OSOFSKY, SCORPION SOUP, SOCIAL CHANGE, AND 9-11: MY YEAR OF EATING
DANGEROUSLY IN GUANGZHOU (Prospective Book) (Work in Progress).
• Guest Blogger, Opinio Juris, http://opiniojuris.org/ (2015) (on Paris climate change negotiations).
• Blogger, IntLawGrrls, http://intlawgrrls.blogspot.com/ (2007–2013).
• Blogger, SALTLaw Blog, http://www.saltlaw.org/blog/ (2010–2013).
• Blogger, Environmental Law Prof Blog, http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/environmental_law/
(2011–2013).
• Hari M. Osofsky, A Win for Oregon As Well As the Law, THE OREGONIAN, April 5, 2007 (OpinionEditorial).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Transporting Climate Change: The Local Dimensions of a Global Environmental
Problem, THE NEXT AMERICAN CITY (2006).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Katrina Disaster Exposes Environmental Injustice, THE REGISTER-GUARD, Sept.
7, 2005 (Opinion-Editorial).
• Hari M. Osofsky, Commentary on How to Harmonize Community Autonomy and Administrative
Responsibility in Environmental Decision-Making: Environmental Hearing Institutions in Wuhan, 24
TEMPLE ENV. L. & TECH. J. 225 (2005).
• 2 HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE 11 (Joanne Bauer & Hari M. Osofsky, eds.) (Carnegie Council on
Ethics and International Affairs, 2004).
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Hari M. Osofsky, Environmental Rights Enforcement in U.S. Courts, HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE
(2004).
Hari M. Osofsky, Understanding "Hostage Diplomacy": The Release of Wei Jingsheng and Wang
Dan, YALE HUM. RTS. & DEVEL. L.J. (1998) (New Development).
Hari M. Osofsky, On-Site Reflections of China's Hong Kong Takeover, THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, at
B-7, July 17, 1997 (Opinion-Editorial).
Public Speaking
Scholarly Presentations
2015–16 Academic Year
• Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Presenter (Amelia Island, FL, 2016).
• University of Minnesota Law School, Squaretable Presentation (Minneapolis, MN 2016).
• University of Oxford Faculty of Law, All Souls College, Presenter and Co-Organizer, Workshop on
Regulating the Energy Transition: Issues at the Intersection of Energy and Environmental Law
(Oxford, UK 2016).
• University of Oslo, IUCNAEL Colloquium 2016, Plenary Presenter (with Jacqueline Peel) (Oslo,
Norway 2016).
• Columbia Law School, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Fourth Annual Sabin Colloquium on
Innovative Environmental Law Scholarship, Senior Scholar Commentator (New York, NY 2016)
• Arizona State University, Second Annual Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators,
Presenter (Tempe, AZ 2016).
• University of Texas, 2016 Austin Electricity Conference, Presenter (Austin, TX 2016).
• American Society of International Law 2016 Annual Meeting, Moderator (Washington, D.C. 2013).
• George Washington University School of Law, Presenter, 2016 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro
Environmental Law Symposium, The Electricity Mix of the Future: Environment, Economics, and
Governance (Washington, DC 2016).
• Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Environmental Law Colloquium (Chicago, IL 2016).
• AALS 2016 Annual Meeting, Presenter, Organizer, and Moderator for Hot Topic Program on
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: A Roundtable on Its Significance and Implications for the
Future (New York, NY 2016) (transcript being published in Environmental Law Reporter).
• Duke University School of Law, Conference on The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements:
Race and Reform in 21st Century America, Presenter and Moderator (Durham, NC 2015).
• University of San Diego School of Law, 2015 Climate and Energy Law Symposium, California to
Paris: Linking Climate and Energy Policy at the State, National, and International Levels, Presenter
(San Diego, CA 2015).
• 2015 ASIL Research Forum, American University Washington College of Law, Presenter
(Washington, DC, 2015).
• Arctic Energy Summit, Panelist (Fairbanks, AK, 2015).
• Polar Law Symposium, Virtual Panelist (Anchorage, AK, 2015).
• Center for New American Security (CNAS) Climate Security Challenges Working Group, Panelist
(Washington, DC, 2015).
2014–15 Academic Year
• Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Presenter (Boca Raton, FL, 2015).
• University of Minnesota Law School, Squaretable Presentation (Minneapolis, MN 2015).
• University of Minnesota Law School, Energy Storage Summit, Presenter, Incentivizing Energy
Storage: A National Perspective on Regulatory Barriers and Opportunities (Minneapolis, MN 2015).
• Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Panelist (Seattle, WA 2015).
• Stanford Law School, Conference on How Can International Environmental Law Reduce Disaster
Risk?, Panelist (Palo Alto, CA 2015).
• Association for Law, Property and Society 2015 Annual Meeting, University of Georgia Law School,
Panelist and Moderator (Athens, GA 2015).
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University of Tulsa College of Law, Presenter, Faculty Colloquy (Tulsa, OK 2015).
AALS 2015 Annual Meeting, Presenter at Academic Symposium on Congressional Dysfunction and
Executive Lawmaking (Washington, DC 2015) (broadcast on CSPAN).
Florida State University College of Law, Presenter, Faculty Workshop (Tallahassee, FL 2014).
University of Denver College of Law, Presenter, Faculty Workshop (Denver, CO 2014).
University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska Law Review Symposium, North to the Future: Opportunities
and Change in Alaska’s Emerging Frontiers, Presenter (Anchorage, AK 2014).
American Society of International Law, Midwest Interest Group Workshop, Co-Organizer and
Host, Presenter, Discussant (Minnesota, MN 2014).
2013–14 Academic Year
• University of Minnesota Law School, Squaretable Presentation (Minneapolis, MN 2014).
• Northwestern University School of Law, Searle Center Research Roundtable on Climate Change and
Natural Preservation, Panelist on Arctic Melting and Unconventional Energy (Chicago, IL 2014).
• Durham University, Ice Law Workshop, Presenter on Arctic Melting and Unconventional Energy and
on Arctic Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples (Durham, United Kingdom 2014).
• Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, University of Minnesota Law School, Panelist
(Minneapolis, MN 2014).
• Association for Law, Property and Society 2014 Annual Meeting, UBC Law School, Panelist and
Moderator (Vancouver, BC 2014).
• University of Arizona College of Law, Presenter, Faculty Workshop (Tucson, AZ 2014).
• AALS 2014 Annual Meeting, Moderator (New York, NY 2014).
• 2013 ASIL Research Forum, New York University Law School, Presenter (New York, NY, 2013).
• International Law Weekend, Midwest, Washington University School of Law, Moderator and
Organizing Committee Member (St. Louis, MO, 2013).
• University of Minnesota Department of Geography, Presenter in Fall 2013 Coffee Series
(Minneapolis, MN 2013).
2012–13 Academic Year
• University of Minnesota Law School, Squaretable Presentation (Minneapolis, MN 2013).
• Association for Law, Property and Society 2013 Annual Meeting, University of Minnesota Law
School, Panelist, Moderator, and Conference Co-Organizer and Host (Minneapolis, MN 2013).
• University of Minnesota’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life
Sciences’ Conference on Legal & Policy Pathways for Energy Innovation, University of Minnesota
Law School, Presenter, Moderator, and Conference Co-Organizer and Host (Minneapolis, MN
2013).
• New York Law School Conference on Solving Global Problems, Presenter (New York, NY, 2013).
• American Society of International Law 2013 Annual Meeting, Panelist (Washington, D.C. 2013).
• UCLA Climate and Energy Law Workshop, Presenter (Los Angeles, CA, 2013).
• 2013 Australian National Environmental Law Association Conference on Delivering a Low Carbon
Future, Keynote Presenter, The Role of Litigation in Multi-Level Climate Change Governance
(Melbourne, Australia, 2013).
• Next Generation Compliance Workshop (co-sponsored by the US Environmental Protection Agency,
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance; The George Washington University Law School;
University of California, Berkeley Law, Center for Law, Energy and the Environment; University of
California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy, Center for Environmental Public Policy; The
Environmental Law Institute), Presenter (Washington, DC, 2012).
• 2012 Canadian Council on International Law Annual Meeting, Panel on Crisis and Resilience and the
International Law of Sustainable Development, Presenter (Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2012).
• Arizona State University College of Law, Center for Law and Global Affairs, Think Locally, Act
Globally Workshop in Honor of Elinor Ostrom, Workshop Participant (Tempe, AZ, 2012).
• 2012 ASIL Research Forum, Discussant for Panel on Environmental and Other Disasters: Framing
and Institutions (Athens, GA, 2012).
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2011–12 Academic Year
• University of Minnesota Law School, Squaretable Presentation (Minneapolis, MN 2012).
• Northwestern University School of Law, Searle Center Conference on Natural Preservation of a
Rapidly Changing Climate, Moderator of Session on Adaptation and Mitigation Linkages (Chicago,
IL 2012).
• 2012 AALS Mid-Year Meeting, Workshop on Torts, Environment, and Disaster, Presenter on Plenary
Panel on Generations of Environmental Law (Berkeley, CA, 2012).
• Fordham Law School 2012 Property Works in Progress Conference, Presenter (New York, NY,
2012).
• British Academy, Climate Change Litigation, Policy and Mobilization, Presenter (London, United
Kingdom, 2012).
• University of Minnesota Law School, New Directions in Environmental and Energy Law, Policy, and
Geography, Workshop Organizer and Presenter (Minneapolis, MN, 2012) (supported by $5000
grant from Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the Life Sciences;
$3000 grant from the Institute on the Environment; and $500 grant by a private donor).
• University at Buffalo, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, Where Now? Moving Beyond
Traditional Legal Geographies, Presenter (Buffalo, NY, 2012).
• Society of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology (SETAC)– Midwest Chapter 2012 Annual
Meeting, St. Thomas University, Keynote Presenter (Minneapolis, MN 2012).
• Association for Law, Property and Society 2012 Annual Meeting, Georgetown University School of
Law, Panelist, Moderator, and Co-Organizer (Washington, DC 2012).
• Northwestern University School of Law, Searle Center Conference on Federalism and Energy in the
United States, Presenter (Chicago, IL 2012).
• University of Minnesota, Faculty Works in Progress Workshop, Presenter (Minneapolis, MN 2012).
• New York Law School, Global Law and Justice Colloquium, Presenter (New York, NY 2012).
• Washington University School of Law, Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, International Law
and Theory Roundtable, Presenter (St. Louis, MO 2011).
• Florida Coastal School of Law, 13th Annual Northeast Florida Environmental Summit, Economics,
Ethics, and the Environment (Virtual Presentation 2011).
• Emory Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance Roundtable, Progress Without
Agreement: Climate and Other Regulatory Challenges in a Time of Dissensus, Presenter (Atlanta, GA
2011).
• UBC Law and IUCN Conference, Local Climate Change Law: The Role of Local Governments,
Presenter (Vancouver, Canada 2011).
• LatCrit XVI, Panel Member, Energy Justice (San Diego, CA 2011).
• University of Oregon School of Law & Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, (un)bound By
Law: Keith Aoki Memorial Symposium and Celebration of Life, Presenter, The Geography of “Moo
Ha Ha”: A Tribute to Keith Aoki’s Role in Developing Critical Legal Geography (Eugene, OR 2011).
• Loyola Law School, Faculty Workshop Presentation, Scales of Law: Rethinking Climate Change,
Terrorism, and the Financial Crisis (Los Angeles, CA 2011).
• Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cox Center War Crimes Research Symposium:
International Law in Crisis, Presenter (Cleveland, OH 2011).
2010–11 Academic Year
• University of Melbourne Law School, Conference on Beyond a Carbon Price? A Framework for
Climate Change Regulation in Australia, Presenter (Melbourne, Australia 2011).
• Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Presenter and Mentor (Hilton Head, NC
2011).
• University of Minnesota Law School, Squaretable Presentation (Minneapolis, MN 2011).
• Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Panelist (San Francisco, CA 2011).
• Association of American Geographers 2011 Annual Meeting, Panel Member, (Seattle, Washington
2011).
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UC Irvine School of Law, Climate Change Law Conference, Panelist (Irvine, CA 2011).
American Society of International Law 2011 Annual Meeting, Panelist (Washington, D.C. 2011).
George Washington University School of Law Symposium: Environmental Governance at the
Leading Edge of Technology (Washington, DC 2011).
University of Florida School of Law, Environmental Speaker Series, Presenter (Gainesville, FL
2011).
Association for Law, Property and Society 2011 Annual Meeting, Georgetown University School of
Law, Panelist and Moderator (Washington, DC 2011).
Valparaiso School of Law Conference, Civil Litigation as a Tool for Regulating Climate Change,
Key Panelist (Valparaiso, IN 2011).
University of Minnesota Department of Geography, Presenter in Spring 2011 Coffee Series
(Minneapolis, MN 2011).
University of Minnesota Law School, Presenter in Spring 2011 Public Law Workshop (Minneapolis,
MN 2011).
University of Georgia School of Law, International Law Colloquium Presentation (Athens, GA
2011).
Wayne State University School of Law, Faculty Workshop Presentation (Detroit, MI 2011).
AALS 2011 Annual Meeting, Panelist (San Francisco, CA 2011).
University of Wisconsin Human Rights Institute Sawyer Seminar: Vulnerability and Resilience:
Rethinking Human Rights for the 21st Century, Session on Environmental Human Rights, Panelist
(Madison, WI 2010).
ASIL Biennial Conference in International Economic Law: International Economic Law in a Time of
Change, Panelist (Minneapolis, MN 2010).
University of South Carolina Conference: Three Degrees of Separation: Exploring Linkages Between
International, National & Regional Climate Policy, Panelist (Columbia, SC 2010).
Ho Chi Min City University School of Law, Conference on Sustainable Technology Transfer, Virtual
Panelist (Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam 2010).
University of Oregon Conference: Ocean Impacts of Climate Change, Panelist (Eugene, OR 2010).
2009–10 Academic Year
• Research Group on the Internationalisation of Law and Department of Public and International Law,
University of Oslo Faculty of Law, The Creation of International Law: An Exploration of Normative
Innovation, Contextual Application, and Interpretation in a Time of Flux, Invited Speaker (Oslo,
Norway 2010).
• AALS Mid-Year Meeting, Property Law, Plenary Panelist, The Global Warming Crisis: Property
Law (New York, NY 2010).
• Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Panelist, Multi-Level Environmental Governance
(Chicago, IL 2010).
• Chapman University School of Law, Panel Member, Beyond Copenhagen Conference (Orange, CA
2010).
• Association of American Geographers 2010 Annual Meeting, Panel Member, (Washington, DC
2010).
• Association for Law, Property and Society 2010 Annual Meeting, Georgetown University School of
Law, Panelist and Moderator (Washington, DC 2010).
• Workshop, Public International Law & Legal Theory, Washington University School of Law,
Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies (St. Louis, MO 2010).
• Association of American Law Schools’ Annual Meeting, Panelist, (New Orleans, LA 2010).
• Faculty Workshop Presentation, UNC School of Law (Chapel Hill, NC 2009).
• Europa Institute Seminar, Climate Change in the Courts, University of Edinburgh School of Law,
Presenter (Edinburgh, UK 2009).
• Brodies Environmental Law Lecture, Presenter, University of Edinburgh School of Law, Presenter
(Edinburgh, UK 2009).
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UC Davis School of Law, Clean Tech in the New “Environmental Environment” Symposium,
Presenter (Davis, CA 2009).
International Law Weekend, Presenter (New York, NY 2009).
University of Maryland School of Law, Global Law and Multilateral Law: Evolving Conceptions of
International Law and Governance Conference, Presenter (Baltimore, MD 2009).
2008–09 Academic Year
• Yale Law School, 2009 Alumni Weekend, The Regulatory Debate: Whether, What, and How?,
Presenter, Does Clean and Green Require Mean? New Directions in Energy and Environmental
Regulation (New Haven, CT 2009).
• ESIL-ASIL Research Forum, Changing Futures: Science and International Law, University of
Helsinki, Presenter (Helsinki, Finland 2009).
• Faculty Workshop Presentation, Boston College Law School (Boston, MA 2009).
• Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Symposium, Advocating for an Environment of
Equality: Legal and Ethical Duties in a Changing Climate, Presenter (Eugene, OR 2007) (remote
presentation).
• George Washington University Law School, International and Comparative Law Colloquium,
Presenter (Washington, DC 2009).
• Distinguished Lecture Series, Human Rights and National Security Law Program, Presenter, William
and Mary Law School, Presenter (Williamsburg, VA 2009).
• University of Colorado, New Thinking about Climate Change Law and Policy Works-in-Progress
Symposium, Presenter (Boulder, CO 2009).
• Southeastern Association of Law Schools 61st Annual Meeting, Climate Policy in a New
Administration, Presenter (Palm Beach, FL 2009).
• University of Colorado Property Works in Progress Conference, Presenter (Boulder, CO 2009).
• Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Panelist, Rethinking Transnational Environmental
Governance (Denver, CO 2009).
• Speaker Series, Whittier Law School, Presenter (Costa Mesa, CA 2009).
• American Society of International Law 2009 Annual Meeting, New Voices Presentation
(Washington, D.C. 2009).
• Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, Symposium on New Directions in Environmental
Law, Presenter (St. Louis, MO 2009).
• Washington and Lee University School of Law, Journal of Energy, Climate, and Environment,
Symposium, Climate Policy for the Obama Administration, Presenter and Symposium Advisor
(Lexington, VA 2009).
• Junior International Law Scholars Conference, Temple Law School, Presenter (Philadelphia, PA
2009).
• Faculty Workshop Presentation, Villanova University School of Law (Villanova, PA 2009).
• Michigan Journal of International Law, Symposium on Territory Without Boundaries, Presenter
(Ann Arbor, MI 2009).
• Faculty Workshop Presentation and Student Certificate Program Presentation, Florida State
University College of Law (Tallahassee, FL 2009).
• Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, Environmental Law Workshop, Presenter (Tel Aviv, Israel
2009).
• Georgetown University School of Law and the Center on Property, Citizenship, and Social
Entrepreneurism at Syracuse University College of Law, Workshop on the Public Nature of Private
Property, Presenter (Washington, DC 2008).
• Georgetown University School of Law, International Legal Theory Colloquium, Presenter
(Washington, DC 2008).
• Washington University School of Law, Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies,
International Climate Change: Post-Kyoto Challenges, Presenter (St. Louis, MO 2008).
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2007–08 Academic Year
• Southeastern Association of Law Schools 61st Annual Meeting, Climate Change Litigation, Presenter
(Palm Beach, FL 2008).
• University of Colorado Property Works in Progress Conference, Presenter (Boulder, CO 2008).
• University of Virginia Law School, May Gathering, Presenter (Charlottesville, VA 2008).
• University of California Hastings College of the Law, Monterey Institute of International Studies,
Surviving Climate Change: Adaptation and Innovation, Presenter (San Francisco, CA 2008).
• Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Panelist, Imagining Rights in the Era
of Globalization; Presenter, Justice and the Geographical Imagination I (San Francisco, CA 2008).
• Chapman University School of Law FIRST Series, Faculty Workshop Presentation (Orange, CA
2008).
• University of Oregon, Oregon Review of International Law, Symposium, Multi-Scalar Civil Society?:
Legal Pluralism and Inequality, Presenter and Symposium Advisor (Eugene, OR 2008).
• University of Iowa College of Law, Faculty Workshop Presentation (Iowa City, IA 2008).
• Washington University School of Law, Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies,
Workshop, Public International Law & Legal Theory (St. Louis, MO 2008).
• Association of American Law Schools’ Annual Meeting, Panelist, Section on Women Concurrent
Session: Globalization (New York, NY 2008).
• Duke University, Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum Symposium, A Charged Atmosphere:
The Future of US Policy on Global Warming, Presenter (Durham, North Carolina 2007).
• New York University, Environmental Law Society and Law Students for Human Rights Symposium,
A Climate for Justice: Equity Imperatives in the Legal Responses to Climate Change, Presenter (New
York, New York 2007).
• International Law Weekend, Moderator, Plenary Panel, The Appropriate Role of International Law in
Addressing Climate Change; Participant, Roundtable on Interdisciplinary Approaches to
International Law (New York, NY 2007).
• University of Oregon, Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Symposium, Combating
Climate Change on the Regional Level: West Coast Policy and Litigation, Presenter and Symposium
Advisor (Eugene, OR 2007).
• Faculty Colloquium Presentation, Lewis & Clark Law School (Portland, OR 2007).
• LatCrit XII, Panel Member, Appearances and Realities of Power Across Scales: Dilemmas of
Categorization (Miami, FL 2007).
• Faculty Colloquium Presentation, Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington (Bloomington,
ID 2007).
• Willamette Valley Junior Scholars Workshop, Presenter, Commentator, and Co-Organizer (Eugene,
OR 2007).
2006–07 Academic Year
• Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Panelist, Framing Regulatory Problems as Human
Rights Issues and International and Comparative Law Approaches to Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
(Berlin, Germany 2007).
• American Association of Law Schools and American Society of International Law, Joint Meeting on
International Law, Work-in-Progress Presentation (Vancouver, BC 2007).
• University of Colorado Property Works in Progress Conference, Presenter (Boulder, CO 2007).
• The Third World and International Law Conference, Albany Law School, Presenter (Albany, NY
2007).
• Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Panel Member, Questioning Scale—Politics
and the Pursuit of Energy Sustainability at the State and Local Levels: Options, Politics, and Results
(San Francisco, CA 2007).
• American Society of International Law 2007 Annual Meeting, Panel Member, Feeling the Heat?:
Climate Change Litigation in the 21st Century (Washington, D.C. 2007).
• Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Moderator and Panelist, Roundtable
on Law, Geography, and Culture: Perspectives on Place, Space, and Scale (Washington, D.C. 2007).
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University of Oregon, Oregon Review of International Law, Symposium, Complexities of Scale: The
Role of the Subnational in International Law, Presenter and Symposium Advisor (Eugene, OR 2007).
Yale Law School, Yale Journal of International Law Young Scholars Conference, Presenter, A Law
and Geography Perspective on the New Haven School (New Haven, CT 2007).
Yale Law School, Work-in-Progress Presentation, Junior International Law Scholars Roundtable
(New Haven, CT 2007).
University of Idaho College of Law, International Law Symposium, Free Trade or Fair: The
Softwood Lumber Dispute and Beyond, Panel Member (Coeur d’Alene, ID 2007).
UC Davis School of Law, Journal of International Law & Policy Symposium, The Evolution of
Colonialism in a Global Economy, Panelist, Neocolonialism (Davis, CA 2007).
Faculty Workshop Presentation, UC Davis School of Law (Davis, CA 2007).
Stanford Climate Symposium, Panelist, Climate Change and International Human Rights (Palo Alto,
CA 2007).
Willamette Valley Junior Scholars Workshop, Presenter (Salem, OR 2007).
International Law Weekend – West, Panel Chair and Participant, Law, Geography, and Sovereignty
(Santa Clara, CA 2007).
Association of American Law Schools’ Annual Meeting, Hot Topics Panel, The Significance of
Climate Change Litigation: Massachusetts v. EPA and Other New Developments, Moderator and
Panelist (Washington, DC 2007).
2006 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Resource
Policies: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity, Presenter (Berlin, Germany 2006).
Northwest Tribal Water Rights Annual Conference, Panelist, International Advocacy Initiatives from
the Grass Roots (Eugene, OR 2006).
International Law Weekend, Panel Member, State Courts and Transnational Decision-Making: The
Road Ahead; Roundtable Moderator and Participant, Roundtable on International Law and
Geography: Cross-Cutting Issues of Sovereignty, Identity, and Equity (New York, NY 2006).
LatCrit XI, Panel Member, Globalization and Indigenous Peoples, Part 2: Possibilities for Progress
(Las Vegas, NV 2006).
Faculty Workshop Presentation, Arizona State University College of Law (Tempe, AZ 2006).
Faculty Workshop Presentation, University of Houston Law Center (Houston, TX 2006).
2005–06 Academic Year
• American Society of International Law 2006 Annual Meeting, Rights of Indigenous Peoples and
International Environmental Law Interest Groups, Panel Member, Adjudicating Climate Change:
International Approaches and Its Implications for the Interests of Indigenous Peoples (Washington,
D.C. 2006).
• Work-in-Progress Presentation, Junior International Law Scholars Roundtable (Washington, D.C.
2006).
• University of Idaho College of Law, International Law Symposium, Indigenous Peoples and
International Human Rights Law: Lands, Liberties, and Legacies, Panel Member, Legacies and
Cultural Resources (Coeur d’Alene, ID 2006).
• Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Panel Member, Nature, Science and Law:
Legal Geographies of Nature (Chicago, IL 2006).
• Pacific/McGeorge Center for Global Business and Development, The Business of Climate Change:
Post-Gleneagles, Post-Vientiane, and Post-Kyoto Challenges and Opportunities for Multinational
Business Enterprises, Presenter (Sacramento, CA 2006).
• Association of American Law Schools’ Annual Meeting, Workshop on Integrating Transnational
Legal Perspectives Into the First Year Curriculum, Panel Member, Property Session (Washington,
DC 2006).
• International Law Weekend, Panel Member, Adjudicative Approaches to Climate Change (New
York, NY 2005).
• LatCrit X, Panel Member, Human Rights, Sovereignty, Violence & Religion (Puerto Rico 2005).
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Michigan State University College of Law, Conference on Trade and Foreign Investment in the
Americas: The Impact on Indigenous Peoples and the Environment, Panel Member, FTAs Within the
Hemisphere and Their Environment and Investment Chapters–Impact on the Environment (East
Lansing, MI 2005).
2004–05 Academic Year
• Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Panelist, Corporate Environmental Responsibility in
the Age of Globalization (Las Vegas, NV 2005).
• University of Idaho College of Law, International Law Symposium, Panel Member, The Challenge of
International Human Rights (Coeur d’Alene, ID 2005).
• International Law Weekend – West, Panel Chair and Conference Co-Organizer and Host,
Corporate Compliance with International Law (Costa Mesa, CA 2005).
• Junior International Law Scholars Roundtable, Moderator, Is the Public/Private Divide Meaningless?
(Washington, D.C. 2004).
2003–04 Academic Year
• Temple University Beasley School of Law, 2004 U.S.-China Environmental Law Scholars
Roundtable, Commentator (Philadelphia, PA 2004).
• Carnegie Council Fellows Presentation, Learning from Environmental Justice: A New Model for
International Environmental Rights (New York, NY 2004).
• Junior International Law Scholars Roundtable, Moderator, Emerging Issues in Public International
Law (Washington, D.C. 2003).
• International Law Weekend, Panel Member, Environmental Human Rights Claims under the Alien
Tort Statute: Understanding Recent Setbacks (New York, NY 2003).
• International Law Weekend – West, Panel Chair, Sustainable Development After Earth Summit 2002
(Los Angeles, CA 2003).
• Annual Colloquium of the International Association of Legal Sciences, International Keynote
Speaker, Report on International Criminal Law: Court Enforcement of Minimum Standards
(Melbourne, Australia 2000).
Public, Bar, and Continuing Legal Education Presentations
• Minnesota Environmental Institute, Keynote Presentation, The Paris Agreement on Climate
Change: Forging a More Ambitious International Legal Path Forward Amid National Constraints
(Minneapolis, MN 2016).
• American Constitution Society, Lockridge Grindal Nauen, Hot Topics in Climate Law: Legal Issues
Raised by the Clean Power Plan, Presenter, Reactions to EPA’s Clean Power Plan (Minneapolis, MN
2015).
• University of Minnesota Super CLE Presentation, Climate Change Litigation: Key Cases and
Regulatory Impacts (Minneapolis, MN 2015).
• Metropolitan Energy Policy Coalition Summit, Making Connections - Energy Security and the Grid,
Keynote Lunch Speaker, Local Energy Security in Transition (West Saint Paul, MN 2015).
• University of Minnesota Super CLE Presentation, Energy Partisanship and Possibilities for Bipartisan
Progress (Minneapolis, MN 2015).
• William Mitchell College of Law, Minnesota State Bar Association, Public Utilities Law Section
CLE, Reaction’s to EPA’s Clean Power Plan (Saint Paul, MN 2015)
• University of Minnesota Super CLE Presentation, Hot Topics at the Energy-Environment Interface
(Minneapolis, MN 2014).
• University of Minnesota Super CLE Presentation, Local Efforts to Address Climate Change
(Minneapolis, MN 2014).
• University of Minnesota Super CLE Presentation, Hot Topics in the Energy Law (Minneapolis, MN
2013).
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Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy Annual Women’s Breakfast, Keynote Speaker,
Transitioning to Cleaner Energy: Lessons from the Twin Cities’ Suburbs (Minneapolis, MN 2013).
University of Minnesota Super CLE Presentation, Litigation over Climate Change: Key
Developments and Regulatory Impacts (Minneapolis, MN 2013).
University of Minnesota Super CLE Presentation, Hot Topics in the Transition to Cleaner Energy
(Minneapolis, MN 2012).
University of Minnesota Super CLE Presentation, New Frontiers in Responding to Climate Change:
From Local Action to Litigation to Geoengineering (Minneapolis, MN 2012).
Yale Alumni Association of the Northwest, Sustainability Lecture Series Presentation, Litigating
Climate Change: The Role of Courts in Shaping Our Regulatory Path (Lillydale, MN 2011).
University of Minnesota Super CLE Presentation, Regulating Climate Change: Local, State, National,
and International Developments (Minneapolis, MN 2011).
University of Minnesota Alumni Weekend, CLE Presentation on Environmental Justice and
Governance Issues Arising from the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Minneapolis, MN 2011)
Hennepin County Bar Association Environmental Law CLE, Multidimensional Governance,
Environmental Justice, and the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Minneapolis, MN 2011)
University of Minnesota Super CLE Presentation, Legal Issues Arising from the BP Deepwater
Horizon Oil Spill (Minneapolis, MN 2011).
Minnesota State Bar Association’s Public Utilities Law and Environmental, Natural Resources, and
Energy Law Sections, CLE Presentation on Clean Air Act Regulation following Massachusetts v.
EPA (Saint Paul, MN 2011)
Hamline University School of Law, Forum on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Presenter (Saint
Paul, MN 2010).
Arizona State University College of Law, Sustainability Summit, Participant (Tempe, AZ 2010).
2008 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference: Compelling a Climate of Change, Panel
Member, Climate Change + Environmental Justice = Climate Justice (Eugene, OR 2008).
Fireside Presentation, Climate Change and the Alien Tort Claims Act, University of Oregon School of
Law, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program (Eugene, OR, 2007).
Public Forum Discussing the Supreme Court's Ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, University of Oregon
School of Law, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program and International Law Society
(Eugene, OR, 2007).
Fireside Presentation, The Geography of Climate Change Litigation, University of Oregon School of
Law, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program (Eugene, OR, 2006).
Coalition Against Environmental Racism’s 11th Annual Environmental Justice Conference, Keynote
Lunch Speaker (Eugene, OR, 2006).
2006 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference: Toward A Global Public Trust, Panel Member,
Katrina and Environmental Justice & Moderator, Environmental Rights in National Constitutions
(Eugene, OR 2006).
Business Innovation and Law 2005: Business Lawyering in the Pacific Rim Economy, Panel
Member, Overview of the Pacific Rim Business Markets and Legal Systems (Portland, OR 2005).
Virtual Environmental Law Guest Speaker Series, Learning from Environmental Justice: A New
Model for International Environmental Rights (2005).
Orange County Bar Association – International Law Section, Speaker, New Developments in
International Environmental Rights: Implications for Multinational Corporations (Orange County,
CA 2005).
Legal Education Session, Learning from Environmental Justice: A New Model for International
Environmental Rights (Los Angeles, CA 2004).
Orange County Bar Association – International Law Section, Speaker, Aftermath of the War in Iraq:
Prosecution of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity (Orange County, CA 2003).
Vermont Law School, Faculty Speaker Series, Learning from Environmental Justice: A New Model
for International Environmental Rights (South Royalton, VT 2002).
Vermont Law School, Panel Member, Remarks, Reflections, and Perspectives on September 11
Anniversary (South Royalton, VT 2002).
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Yale Alumni Association of Hong Kong, Social Change Through Legal Education: Teaching U.S.
Civil Rights and Launching a Labor Law Clinic in China (Hong Kong 2002).
Zhongshan University, Zhuhai Campus, Chinese Clinical Legal Education (co-lectured with Chinese
colleagues) (Zhuhai, China 2002).
Zhongshan University, Zhuhai Campus, American Legal Education and Clinical Legal Education
(Zhuhai, China 2002).
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., California State Bar Association Mandatory Continuing
Legal Education Session, Social Change Through Active, Reflective Learning?: Clinical Legal
Education in China and the United States (Los Angeles, CA 2002).
Guangzhou Professional Women’s Association, Social Change Through Active, Reflective
Learning?: Clinical Legal Education in China and the United States (Guangzhou, China 2002).
Radio and Television Appearances
• Access Minnesota, Commentator on Climate Change Initiatives and the Supreme Court, Mar. 16,
2016, http://www.accessminnesotaonline.com/2016/03/16/climate-change-initiatives-and-thesupreme-court/
• Access Minnesota, Commentator on The Role of Litigation in Fighting Climate Change, Mar. 4,
2015, http://www.accessminnesotaonline.com/2015/03/04/the-role-of-litigation-in-fighting-climatechange/.
• Daily Circuit, Minnesota Public Radio, Jan. 22, 2015, Guest Commentator on Will BP oil spill change
how companies drill?, http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/01/22/daily-circuit-bp-oil.
• The Obama Presidency and Federalism, CSPAN, Jan. 5. 2015, Presentation on President Obama’s
Use of Executive Authority to Address Climate Change and Energy Transition, http://www.cspan.org/video/?323544-2/discussion-executive-action-federalism.
• WTIP, Grand Marais, Guest Commentator on Energy Transition Lab Focuses on Renewable Energy,
Dec. 23, 2014, https://beta.prx.org/stories/139149.
• Breakfast with Nancy, KOPT 1600, Monthly Program on Global Justice (2005–2006) (with Ibrahim
Gassama).
• Odyssey, WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio, Guest Commentator on Human Rights and the
Environmental Movement (2004).
Bar Admissions
State Courts of California
U.S. District Court of the Central District of California
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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