Articles

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Decentralizing Cap-and-Trade? State Controls within a Federal Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program, Virginia Environmental Law Journal (2010)

Cap-and-trade programs for greenhouse gases (GHGs) present central political questions with significant economic and environmental...

 

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Climate Change, Consumption, and Cities, Fordham Urban Law Journal (2009)

In this article, Professor Kaswan argues that hoped-for greenhouse gas reductions cannot be achieved without...

 

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Decentralizing Cap-and-Trade? The Question of State Stringency, San Diego Journal of Climate and Energy Law (2009)

A cap-and-trade program is likely to be a centerpiece of federal climate change legislation. The...

 

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Greening the Grid and Climate Justice, Environmental Law (2009)

This short symposium essay argues that the collateral environmental and economic justice benefits of greening...

 

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Environmental Justice and Domestic Climate Change Policy, Environmental Law Reporter (2008)

This article argues that, except in California, environmental justice considerations have not received sufficient attention...

 

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A Cooperative Federalism Proposal for Climate Legislation: The Value of State Autonomy in a Federal System, Denver University Law Review (2008)

Policymakers and scholars alike are struggling with the federalism question: whether climate change regulation should...

 

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The Domestic Response to Global Climate Change: What Role for Federal, State, and Litigation Initiatives?, University of San Francisco Law Review (2007)

Although the United States is not a party to the Kyoto Protocol, a multitude of...

 

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Distributive Justice and the Environment, North Carolina Law Review (2003)

One of the most important developments in environmental law over the last three decades has...

 

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Environmental Laws: Grist for the Equal Protection Mill, University of Colorado Law Review (1999)

In this article, Professor Kaswan continues to address the relationship between environmental laws and civil...

 

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Environmental Justice: Bridging the Gap between Environmental Laws and 'Justice', American University Law Review (1997)

In this article, Professor Kaswan considers the sometimes-tense intersection between environmentalism and the environmental justice...

 

Contributions to Books

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Reconciling Justice and Efficiency: Integrating Environmental Justice into Domestic Cap-and-Trade Programs for Controlling Greenhouse Gases, Ethics and Global Climate Change (2011)

In the last thirty years, two opposing trends have emerged in environmental policy: environmental justice...