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Zygmunt J.B. Plater
Boston College Law School
Professor
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Curriculum Vitae [PDF]
Expertise
Environmental Law
Property Law
Land Use Law
Administrative Agency Law
Courses/Seminars
Fall 2012: Property; Environmental Affairs Law Review; Environmental Law; National Environmental Law Moot Court
Spring 2013: Environmental Law, Advanced: Teaching Seminar; National Environmental Law Moot Court; Environmental Affairs Law Review; Selected Topics: Environmental Law Seminar
Honors & Awards
Public Interest Law Professor of the Year, 2011, Boston College Public Interest Law Foundation
Recipient of the 2005 David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Land Air Water Association at the 23rd International Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
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Book: A Little Fish in a Pork Barrel, a history of the first major national litigation under the Endangered Species Act
(2013)
Book: The Short Swift Course in Future Interests, a Guide to One of the Most Fiendishly Complex Areas in Modern Property Law
(2012)
Articles
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The Exxon Valdez Resurfaces in the Gulf of Mexico ... and the Hazards of “Megasystem Centripetal Di-Polarity”
,
Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review
(2011)
PDF
Learning From Disasters: Twenty-One Years After the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Will Reactions to the Deepwater Horizon Blowout Finally Address the Systemic Flaws Revealed in Alaska?
,
Environmental Law Reporter
(2010)
PDF
Will Laxity and Collusion Now Come to an End?
,
The Environmental Forum
(2010)
PDF
Setting It Straight: A Thirtieth Anniversary Gathering in Memory of the Little Tennessee River and its Valley
,
Boston College Law School Faculty Papers
(2010)
30 Years of Notoriety: A Kaleidoscope of Lessons from the Eastern District of Tennessee's Biggest Fish Story Ever
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Dicta: A Monthly Publication of the Knoxville Bar Association
(2008)
PDF
Tiny Fish/Big Battle: 30 Years After TVA and the Snail Darter Clashed, the Case Still Echoes in Caselaw, Politics, and Popular Culture
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Tennessee Bar Journal
(2008)
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Law, Media, & Environmental Policy: A Fundamental Linkage in Sustainable Democratic Governance
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Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review
(2006)
PDF
Dealing with Dumb and Dumber: The Continuing Mission of Citizen Environmentalism
,
Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation
(2005)
PDF
Endangered Species Act Lessons Over 30 Years, and the Legacy of the Snail Darter, a Small Fish in a Pork Barrel
,
Environmental Law
(2004)
Link
Environmental Citizen Suits at Thirtysomething: A Celebration and Summit
(with James R. May, Bruce J. Terris, Ann Powers, Michael D. Axline, David Bookbinder, Peter Lehner, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr),
Environmental Law Reporter
(2003)
PDF
Clear the Air: Lopsided Journalism in Public Policy Debates
,
[letter to the editor] Environmental Law
(2002)
PDF
Environmental Law in the Political Ecosystem - Coping with the Reality of Politics
,
Eighth Annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture. Pace Environmental Law Review
(2002)
PDF
Law and the Fourth Estate: Endangered Nature, the Press, and the Dicey Game of Democratic Governance
,
Environmental Law
(2002)
PDF
Environmental Law and Three Economies: Navigating a Sprawling Field of Study, Practice, and Societal Governance in which Everything is Connected to Everything Else
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Harvard Environmental Law Review
(1999)
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The Three Economies: Rethinking the Connections between Society, Ecology, and Money
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Boston College Law School Magazine
(1998)
PDF
The Three Economies: An Essay in Honor of Joseph Sax
,
Ecology Law Quarterly
(1998)
PDF
The Embattled Social Utilities of the Endangered Species Act - A Noah Presumption and Caution Against Putting Gasmasks on the Canaries in the Coalmine
,
Environmental Law
(1997)
The Environmental Communicator
,
The Environmental Communicator
(1996)
PDF
Environmental Law as a Mirror of the Future: Civic Values Confronting Market Force Dynamics in a Time of Counter-Revolution
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Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review
(1996)
PDF
Facing a Time of Counter-Revolution: The Kepone Incident and a Review of First Principles
,
University of Richmond Law Review
(1995)
PDF
Following Up the AALS Symposium: An Environmental Justice Network
(with Charlie Lord and William Shutkin),
West Virginia Law Review
(1994)
PDF
From the Beginning, a Fundamental Shift of Paradigms: A Theory and Short History of Environmental Law
,
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
(1994)
PDF
Keynote Essay: A Modern Political Tribalism in Natural Resources Management
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The Public Land Law Review
(1990)
PDF
Through the Looking Glass of Eminent Domain: Exploring the “Arbitrary and Capricious” Test and Substantive Rationality Review of Governmental Decisions
(with William Lund Norine),
Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review
(1989)
PDF
Multilateral Development Banks, Environmental Diseconomies, and International Reform Pressures on the Lending Process: The Example of Third World Dam-Building Projects
,
Boston College Third World Law Journal
(1989)
PDF
Damming the Third World: Multilateral Development Banks, Environmental Diseconomies, and International Reform Pressures on the Lending Process
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Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
(1988)
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In the Wake of the Snail Darter: An Environmental Law Paradigm and Its Consequences
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University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
(1986)
PDF
Reflected in a River: Agency Accountability and the TVA Tellico Dam Case
,
Tennessee Law Review
(1982)
PDF
Statutory Violations and Equitable Discretion
,
California Law Review
(1982)
The Snail Darter: It's More than a Little Fish
,
Frontiers (Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia)
(1977)
The Nonstatutory Public Trust - Affirmative New Environmental Powers for Attorneys General
,
Environmental Control Newsletter
(1976)
PDF
Coal Law from the Old World: A Perspective on Land Use and Environmental Regulation in the Coal Industries of the United States, Great Britain, and West Germany
,
Kentucky Law Journal
(1976)
PDF
The Takings Issue in a Natural Setting: Floodlines and the Police Power
,
Texas Law Review
(1974)
PDF
The Right to Counsel Fees in Public Interest Environmental Litigation
(with Joseph H. King Jr.),
Tennessee Law Review
(1973)
Books
Link
Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law and Society
(with Robert H. Abrams, Robert L. Graham, Lisa Heinzerling, David A. Wirth, and Noah D. Hall) (2010)
2007-2008 Teacher's Manual Update: Update and Handout Materials for Teaching Environmental Law & Policy: Nature law & Society
(with Robert H. Abrams) (2007)
2006-2007 Teacher’s Manual Update: Environmental Law & Policy: Nature, Law and Society
(with Robert H. Abrams) (2006)
Link
Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society
(with David A. Wirth) (2004)
Link
Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society
(with Robert H. Abrams, William Goldfarb, and Robert L. Graham) (1998)
Link
Environmental Law and Policy: A Coursebook on Nature, Law and Society. Cases, Materials, and Text
(with Robert H. Abrams and William Goldfarb) (1992)
PDF
Spill: The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez Appendix M
(with Harry Bader, Ralph Johnson, and Alison Rieser) (1990)
Special Concerns for Multi-Lot Land Sales and Second Home Developments
(1975)
Contributions to Books
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The 'Three Economies'
(with Robert H. Abrams),
Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology
(2008)
Simulated Pre-Trial Conferencing
,
Teaching the Law School Curriculum
(2004)
Link
Demystifying the Law: Adding an Environmental Law Course to Environmental Studies Curricula
,
Confronting Environmental Challenges in a Changing World
(1991)
PDF
An Emergency Resource Requisitioning System for Response to Future Oil Spills
,
Spill: The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez Appendix M
(1990)
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Judicial Remedies for Prevention of Future Oil Spills
,
Spill: The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez Appendix M
(1990)
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Some Suggested Elements for an Improved Oil Spill Response System
,
Spill: The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez Appendix M
(1990)
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The State of Alaska's Power to Petition for Federal Rulemaking under APA §553(e)
,
Spill: The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez. Volume III. Appendix M
(1990)
Legal Factors
(with David Hiller),
The Value of Time in Environmental Decision Processes: Concepts and Issues
(1979)
Legal Development and Public Administration
,
Proceedings of the First United States Conference on Ethiopian Studies
(1975)
Garanties Constitutionnelles Relatives à L'Individu Face à La Justice
(with Thierry Verhelst),
L'Individu Face à La Justice en Afrique Eléments de Documentation
(1971)
Popular Press
Link
How Much Will BP Really Pay? : The Public Tab
,
New York Times
(2010)
Selected Professional Activities
The Snail Darter & The Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River
,
16th Institute for Natural Resources Law Teachers
(2013)
Keeping the Canary in the Dark: What Happens When the Media Misunderstands and Miscommunicates Endangered Species?
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Lake Forest College
(2013)
Keynote/Plenary Address, A Jeffersonian Challenge: Law and the Press in National Governance
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Conference on the Tellico Dam Controversy
(2013)
Panelist, Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
,
Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
(2013)
Keynote/Plenary Address, Polishing the Crown Jewel: The Endangered Species Act at 40
,
19th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
(2013)
Legal Trends in Energy & Environmental Law
,
Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship, Vermont Law School
(2012)
Semantic Hygiene in Regulatory Takings Analysis
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Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship, Vermont Law School
(2012)
The Relationship between Wildlife Law and Economic Development
,
American Association of Law Librarians 2012 National Conference
(2012)
Little Fish in a Pork Barrel
,
Keynote: 30th International Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
(2012)
Iron Triangles: Lessons from Oil Spilled in Two Gulfs
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Regional Retreat Seminar Keynote
(2011)
Panelist on Deepwater Drilling: The Price of Energy Security
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6th Annual Tufts University Energy Conference
(2011)
Classic Lessons from a Little Fish in a Pork Barrel
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The Wallace Stegner Lecture, Wallace Stegner Center, University of Utah College of Law
(2011)
Endangered Wildlife
,
Brandeis Biology Program
(2011)
Environmental Law & Rivers
,
Yale School of Forestry Resources Seminar, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Science
(2011)
Learning from Disaster: Lessons for the Future from the Gulf of Mexico
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Environmental Affairs Law Review Symposium
(2010)
The Exxon Valdez Re-Surfaces in the Gulf of Mexico —Alaska 1989, BP Deepwater Blowout, 2010, and the Hazards of "Centripetal Megasystem Di-Polarity”
,
Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review Symposium: Learning from Disaster
(2010)
Tough Lessons from Oil
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Boston University Department of Geography and Environment, the Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative, and the Sawyer Seminar Series
(2010)
Lessons from Two Gulfs
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American Bar Association SEER National Meeting
(2010)
Oil Spill in the Gulf: Assessing the Effects and Policy Implications of Our Nation's Biggest Environmental Disaster
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Annual Meeting Plenary Session, American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources
(2010)
Link
Oil Spills in Two Gulfs
,
University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study
(2010)
Legal Perspectives on Oil Spill Liability
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ABA CLE National Teleconference
(2010)
Reacting to the BP Experience
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TEDxBoston
(2010)
Liability Lessons from Deepwater Horizon
,
Environmental Law Institute
(2010)
TVA and its Dams
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Yale Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences, Water Resources Case Studies Series
(2010)
The Evolving Public Trust Doctrine
,
Lake Forest College
(2010)
The Science of the Endangered Species Act in National Policy and Politics
,
Brandeis University Program in Environmental Sciences
(2010)
Endangered Species and Public Policy
,
Lake Forest College
(2009)
Aldo Leopold’s Legacy in Natural Resource Management
,
Yale Leopold Centennial Conference
(2009)
Ecology and Iron Triangles
,
Williams College
(2009)
Then and Now: The Alaska Oil Spill at 20
(2009)
Through the Lens of the Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill: The Unpredictable and Critical Role of Citizen Input in Environmental Crisis Management
(2009)
A Legal Analysis of the Supreme Court's Kelo v. New London Decision--the Progressive Position
,
Federalist Society Symposium on Eminent Domain
(2007)
Environmental Law, Public Participation, and Community Action
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Green Corps Leadership Program
(2007)
Environmentalism at a Constitutional Moment: The Biodiversity of a Majority, Keynote Speech
,
25th International Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
(2007)
Five Lectures in Environmental Law: The Endangered Species Act as a Societal Challenge
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Bard College Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences
(2007)
Environmental Law as a Platform for Citizen Action
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Greencorps Pro Bono Service Training Institute
(2007)
“The Endangered Species Act: Strategic Lessons from Small Fragile Species and a Crude Blunt Instrument
,
Michigan State University
(2007)
Public Interest Environmental Law
,
Green Corps Leadership Training Seminar, Suffolk University
(2006)
Environmental Law as a Backdrop to Citizen Action
,
Greencorps Pro Bono Service Training Institute
(2006)
Link
Speech, Environmental Law, Citizenship, and the Snail Darter
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Green Mountain College Environmental Studies Program
(2006)
Keynote Speaker, Environmentalists & Cultural Relativity: the Challenges of Being Effective in a Polarized, Balkanized, Commoditized, Lobotomized Political World
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24th International Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
(2006)
The Exxon-Valdez Oilspill and its Legal Reverberations; The Endangered Species Act as a Societal Challenge
,
Bard College Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences, Lectures in Environmental Law
(2006)
Link
Law, Media, and Environmental Policy
,
Western New England University School of Law
(2006)
PDF
A Ferenj Observer in the Horn of Africa -- Perspectives on Cultural Relativity
,
Boston College Law School Lectures and Presentations
(2006)
Dealing with Dumb and Dumber: The Continuing Mission of Citizen Environmentalism
,
Twenty-third International Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
(2005)
PDF
The Snail Darter, The Tellico Dam, and Sustainable Democracy — Lessons for the Next President From a Classic Environmental Law Controversy.
,
Boston College Law School Lectures and Presentations
(2000)