Robert L. Glicksman, a graduate of the Cornell Law School, is the J.B. & Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law. A nationally recognized authority on environmental and natural resources law, Glicksman is the co-author of the environmental law casebook, Environmental Protection: Law and Policy (Aspen Publishers), the casebook Administrative Law: Agency Action in Context (Foundation Press, with Richard E. Levy), the treatise, Public Natural Resources Law (Thomson/West, with George C. Coggins), the monograph, Risk Regulation at Risk: A Pragmatic Approach (Stanford University Press, with Sidney A. Shapiro), and Modern Public Land Law in a Nutshell (West Group). He has written numerous book chapters and articles on a variety of environmental and natural resources law topics. He teaches several environmental and natural resources law courses, administrative law, and property.
Articles
Access to Courts and Preemption of State Remedies in Collective Action Perspective (with Richard E. Levy), Case Western Reserve Law Review (2010)
Preemption of common law remedies for individual injuries such as harm to health raises fundamental...
Science, Politics, Law and the Arc of the Clean Water Act: The Role of Assumptions in the Adoption of a Pollution Control Landmark (with Matthew R. Batzel), Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (2010)
This article examines the assumptions upon which Congress relied in enacting the 1972 Clean Water...
Ecosystem Resilience to Disruptions Linked to Global Climate Change: An Adaptive Approach to Federal Land Management, Nebraska Law Review (2009)
Global climate change presents daunting challenges to the federal government’s ability to manage its lands...
Bridging Data Gaps Through Modeling and Evaluation of Surrogates: Use of the Best Available Science to Protect Biological Diversity Under the National Forest Management Act, Indiana Law Journal (2008)
The implementation of environmental law and policy typically proceeds in the face of scientific uncertainty....
Coal-Fired Power Plants, Greenhouse Gases, and State Statutory Substantial Endangerment Provisions: Climate Change Comes to Kansas, Kansas Law Review (2008)
State legislatures and environmental agencies have taken the lead in combating climate change, in the...
Contributions to Books
Anatomy of Industry Resistance to Climate Change: A Familiar Litany, Economic Thought and Climate Change Policy (2010)
The industries that generate environmental risks in the United States have long been hostile to...