Professor Barnhizer was Articles Editor of the Ohio State Law Journal and then served as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellow in Colorado Springs Legal Services Office, a Ford Urban Law Fellow, and a Clinical Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Law School. He is active in the areas of environmental law and policy and is Senior Advisor to the International Program of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Senior Fellow for Earth Summit Watch, and General Counsel for the Shrimp Tribunal. He has served as Executive Director of The Year 2000 Committee and consulted extensively with environmental organizations, including the World Resources Institute, the International Institute for Environment and Development, World Wildlife Fund, and the Center for Global Change. He is the author of THE WARRIOR LAWYER, a book on legal strategy, and has also published STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES and ENVIRONMENT CLEVELAND.
Articles
ADR and Independent Dispute Evaluation, SSRN (2011)
The combination of lawyers’ economic self-interest, caseload demands, knowledge deficiencies and employer and opponent behavior...
Golem, 'Gollum', Gone: The Lost Honor of the Legal Profession, SSRN (2011)
The golem is the mud and stick figure of folklore created to protect Jews from...
The Purposes and Methods of American Legal Education, Journal of the Legal Profession (2011)
The best way to represent the focus of the essay’s analysis is by outlining its...
Redesigning the American Law School, Michigan State Law Review (2010)
In other industries when there is a decline or severe curtailment of the demand for...
A Trial Strategist's Template: Lessons from Musashi's Book of Five Rings and Sun Tzu's Art of War, SSRN (2010)
The trial strategist must learn to anticipate the unexpected, and be able to avoid being...
Books
Hypocrisy and Myth: The Hidden Order of the Rule of Law (with Daniel D. Barnhizer), Scholarship Collection (2009)
The Rule of Law is neither a scientific nor a particularly rational invention, but an...
The Blues of a Revolution: The Damaging Impacts of Shrimp Farming (with Isabel de la Torre), Scholarship Collection (2003)
Case studies from around the world dealing with the damaging social and environment impacts of...
Effective Strategies For Protecting Human Rights: Economic Sanctions, Use of National Courts and International Fora and Coercive Power, Scholarship Collection (2001)
This text brings together the experiences of a diverse range of leading human rights advocates...
Effective Strategies For Protecting Human Rights: Prevention and Intervention, Trade, and Education, Scholarship Collection (2001)
The second volume of Effective Strategies for Protecting Human Rights concentrates on strategies for increasing...
The Mongolian Action Programme for the 21st Century: Executive Summary and Strategic Analysis, Scholarship Collection (1998)
Contributions to Books
The "Delicately Constituted Fiction" of The Rule of Law, Rule of Law in the New Millennium: Changing Scenario (2008)
Human Rights as a Strategic System, Effective Strategies for Protecting Human Rights: Economic Sanctions, Use of National Courts and International Fora, and Coercive Power (2001)
Human Rights Strategies for Investigation and "Shaming," Resisting Globalization Rhetoric, and Education, Effective Strategies for Protecting Human Rights: Prevention and Intervention, Trade, and Education (2001)
Trade, Environment and Human Rights: The Paradigm Case of Industrial Aquaculture and the Exploitation of Traditional Communities, Effective Strategies for Protecting Human Rights: Prevention and Intervention, Trade, and Education (2001)
This chapter explores the collision of competing systems and vaules in the specific context of...
Environment Cleveland: a Project of the Environmental Law Program of the Cleveland State University, College of Law, Scholarship Collection (1990)
Unpublished Papers
Ten Elements of "Real" Ethics in the Practice of Law (and Life) (2012)
The legal profession has been “running a game” on its clients and on American society...
The Illusion of Creative Scholarship in American Universities and Law Schools (2010)
The aim of this brief essay is to explore several of the dominant forms of...
Reverse Colonization: Islam, Honor Cultures and the Confrontation between Divine and Quasi-Secular Natural Law, ExpressO (2007)
Repression of discourse through direct and indirect governmental power and through measures that appear entirely...
Ideology, Propaganda and Legal Discourse in the Argument Culture, ExpressO (2007)
The issues at the heart of America’s social conflicts are being forced into the choices...
Presentations