Professor Tarlock, who joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1981, is an internationally recognized expert in environmental law and the law of land and water use. He has published a treatise, Law of Water Rights and Resources, and is a co-author of four casebooks, Water Resource Management, Environmental Law, Land Use Controls, and Environmental Protection: Law and Policy. Professor Tarlock is a frequent consultant to local, state, federal and international agencies, private groups and law firms, and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. From 1989 to 1992 he was the chair of a National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council committee to study water management in the western United States. In 1996-97 he was the principle report writer for the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Committee. Professor Tarlock received his bachelor’s and law degrees from Stanford University, where he was an officer of the Stanford Law Review. He is a member of the California Bar. Professor Tarlock is currently one of three United States special legal advisors to the NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation. He teaches courses in land use, property, energy and natural resource law, environmental policy, international environmental law.
Articles
The Fear Factor in International Water Allocation: Can Law Mitigate It? (forthcoming) (symposium), Hamline Law Review (2008)
Western Growth and Sustainable Water Use: If There Are No "Natural Limits," Should We Worry About Water Supplies? (with S. Bates)., Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis (Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review) (2008)
Are Shared Benefits of International Waters an Equitable Apportionment? (with P. Wouters), Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy (2007)
Ecosystem Services in the Klamath Basin: Battlefield Casualties or the Future?, Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law (2007)
The Great Lakes as an Environmental Heritage of Humankind: An International Law Perspective, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2007)
Books
Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics (with H. Doremus) (2008)
Contributions to Books
Equitable Apportionment of Water Resources Among States, Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (2008)
The Non-Discrimination Principle in United States and International Environmental Law (France), Annales de la Faculté de Droit, Economie et Administration de Metz No. 7637 (2007)
The Story of Calvert Cliffs: A Court Construes the National Environmental Policy Act to Create a Powerful Cause of Action , Environmental Law Stories (2005)