SelectedWorks - J.B. Ruhl

Selected Works of J.B. Ruhl

David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law, Director, Program on Law and Innovation, Co-director, Energy, Environment and Land Use Program

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How to Fix Our Green Infrastructure Problem

J. B. Ruhl and J. Salzman

Currently, 60% of electric power produced in the U.S. comes from fossil fuel combustion. Under any decarbonization scenario meeting national ...

The Green's Dilemma: Building Tomorrow's Climate Infrastructure Today

Emory Law Journal (2023)

J. B. Ruhl and James Salzman

"We need to make it easier to build electricity transmission lines." This plea came recently not from an electric utility ...

Adapting Private Law for Climate Change Adaptation

Vanderbilt Law Review (2023)

Jim Rossi and J. B. Ruhl

The private law of torts, property, and contracts will and should play an important role in resolving disputes regarding how ...

The End Externalities Manifesto: Restatement, Loose Ends, and Unfinished Business

Pace Environmental Law Review (2023)

Don Elliott and Dan Esty were among the chief architects of Environmental Law 2.0-the shift that infused so-called command-and- control ...

John Nagle's Scholarship on the Meanings of Pollution

John Nagle's Scholarship on the Meanings of Pollution (2022)

J. B. Ruhl and James Salzman

John Nagle was a valued friend of ours and a valued colleague. We wrote a casebook together1 and enjoyed each ...

Adapting to a 4°C World

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications (2022)

Karrigan Börk, Karen Bradshaw, Cinnamon P. Carlarne, Robin Kundis Craig, et al.

The Paris Agreement's goal to hold warming to 1.5°-2°C above pre-industrial levels now appears unrealistic. Profs. Robin Kundis Craig and ...

Minnesota Law Review (2021)

J. B. Ruhl and Robin K. Craig

In March 2020, while the world's attention was focused on the coronavirus pandemic, an international team of eighty-nine polar scientists ...

Connecting Ecosystem Services Science and Policy in the Field

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (2021)

J. B. Ruhl, James Salzman, Craig A. Arnold, Robin Craig, et al.

Conservation and provision of ecosystem services (ES) have been adopted as high-level policy in many countries, yet there has been ...

The Costs of Critical Habitat or Owl’s Well That ...

All Faculty Scholarship (2020)

Jonathan Klick and J.B. Ruhl

When the Fish and Wildlife Service designated land in four counties of Arizona as “critical habitat” necessary for the protection ...

Ecosystem Services and Federal Public Lands: A Quiet Revolution in ...

University of Colorado Law Review (2020)

J.B. Ruhl and James Salzman

The major federal public land management agencies (the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Park Service, Fish & Wildlife Service, ...

A Global Assessment of the Law and Policy

University of Queensland Law Journal (2020)

J. B. Ruhl and J. Salzman

Through building waves of legal scholarship and litigation, a group of legal academics and practitioners is advancing a theory of ...

Adaptive Management for Ecosystem Services

International Journal of Commons (2020)

J. B. Ruhl and Robin Kundis Craig

Managing the wildland-urban interface (WUI) is a widely-recognized land use problem plagued by a fractured geography of land parcels, management ...

Beyond Green Infrastructure--Integrating the Ecosystem Services Framework into Urban Planning ...

Journal of Comparable Urban Law & Policy (2020)

Despite the heavy emphasis in legal scholarship on federal and state governance of environmental policy, cities have had their champions ...

Designing Law to Enable Adaptive Governance of Modern Wicked Problems

Vanderbilt Law Review (2020)

J. B. Ruhl, Barbara A. Cosens A. Cosens, Niko Soininen and Lance Gunderson

This Article contributes to the development of adaptive governance theory by articulating and situating the role of formal law and ...

Governing Cascade Failures in Complex Social-Ecological-Technological Systems: Framing Context, Strategies ...

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law (2020)

Cascade failures are events in networked systems with interconnected components in which failure of one or a few parts triggers ...

Introduction: Governing Wicked Problems

Vanderbilt Law Review (2020)

J. B. Ruhl and J. Salzman

“Wicked problems.” It just says it all. Persistent social problems—poverty, food insecurity, climate change, drug addiction, pollution, and the list ...

What Happens When the Green New Deal Meets the Old ...

Vermont Law Review (2020)

J. B. Ruhl and James Salzman

The multi-faceted infrastructure goals of the Green New Deal will be impossible to achieve in the desired time frames if ...

Adaptive Management for Ecosystem Services at the Wildland-Urban Interface

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship (2019)

Robin Kundis Craig and J.B. Ruhl

Managing the wildland-urban interface (WUI) is a widely-recognized land use problem plagued by a fractured geography of land parcels, management ...

Engaging Policy in Science Writing: Patterns and Strategies

PLOS ONE (2019)

J. B. Ruhl, Stephen M. Posner and Taylor H. Ricketts

Many scientific researchers aspire to engage policy in their writing, but translating scientific research and findings into policy discussion often ...

Environmental Law. Disrupted.

Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis (2019)

Inara Scott, David Takacs, Rebecca Bratspies, Vanessa Casado-Pérez, et al.

The U.S. regulatory environment is changing rapidly, at the same time that visible and profound impacts of climate change are ...

In Appreciation of "The Tarlock Effect"

Chicago-Kent Law Review (2018)

Presidential Exit

Duke Law Journal (2018)

J.B. Ruhl and James Salzman

Topic Modeling the President: Conventional and Computational Methods

George Washington Law Review (2018)

J.B. Ruhl, John Nay and Jonathan Gilligan

Legal and policy scholars modeling direct actions into substantive topic classifications thus far have not employed computational methods. To compare ...

Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism

The Environmental Law Reporter (2017)

Shalanda H. Baker, Robin Kundis Craig, John C. Dernbach, Keith Hirokawa, et al.

Environmental law and environmental protection are often portrayed as requiring trade offs: “jobs versus environment,” “markets versus regulation,” “enforcement versus ...

Environmental Law at the Borders

Natural Resources & Environment (2017)

Pipelines to the north. Walls to the south. Between President Trump's issuance of a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline ...