Comparative Constitutional Law and Transitional Justice
Dignity in the Service of Democracy (2011)
At a broad level, perhaps the most noticeable trend in Latin American constitutional law is...
Environmental Human Rights: Paradigm of Indivisibility (2011)
While scholars may disagree as to the scope and depth of the indivisibility of rights,...
Editorial, Finger-Pointing in the Gulf Gets Us Nowhere, The News Journal (Wilmington, DE) (2010)
Truth Skepticism: An Inquiry into the Value of Truth in Times of Transition, International Journal of Transitional Justice (2008)
Truth commissions have become so fashionable in times of transition that one can readily recognize...
Reconciliation in Divided Societies (with Jeremy Sarkin) (2007)
As nations struggling to heal wounds of civil war and atrocity turn toward the model...
U.S. Constitutional Law
Human Dignity in the Roberts Court: A Story of Inchoate Institutions, Autonomous Individuals, and the Reluctant Recognition of a Right, Ohio Northern University Law Review (2011)
Throughout its history, the Supreme Court has assumed that dignity is relevant to constitutional interpretation,...
Senate Debate Served Us All Well (with Paul Regan), News Journal (Wilmington DE) (2010)
Garcetti in Delaware: New Limits on Public Employees' Speech, Delaware Law Review (2009)
In 2006, the Supreme Court decided Garcetti v Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410 (2006), which significantly...
Environmental Law
Constitutional Environmental Rights Worldwide (with James R. May), Principles of Constitutional Environmental Law (2011)
New Directions in Earth Rights, Environmental Rights and Human Rights: Six Facets of Constitutionally Embedded Environmental Rights Worldwide (with James R. May), IUCN Academy of Environmental Law e-Journal (2011)
This essay provides an overview of the worldwide phenomenon of constitutional environmental rights. Since the...
Environmental Human Rights: Paradigm of Indivisibility (2011)
While scholars may disagree as to the scope and depth of the indivisibility of rights,...
Vindicating Fundamental Environmental Rights: Judicial Acceptance of Constitutionally Entrenched Environmental Rights (with James R. May), Oregon Review of International Law (2009)
This article examines the extent to which constitutionally embedded fundamental environmental rights have met the...
New Hurdles for Environmental Justice Plaintiffs, Natural Resources and Environment (2002)
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Environmental Rights Worldwide (with James R. May), Principles of Constitutional Environmental Law (2011)
Foreword - In Memory of Robert J. Lipkin (with James R. May and Robert L. Hayman), Widener Law Review (2010)
This is a foreword to a compendium of writings by our lost friend and colleague,...