SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

For an up-to-date listing of publications by Jonathan H. Adler, see the C.V. here.

Books
Articles

Studies
Testimony
Miscellaneous

Adler articles on SSRN

Commentaries on NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE


Books


 

Environmentalism at the Crossroads
Green Activism in America

[Whiny Review of Crossroads by "Animal People"]
 
 
 
 
 
The Costs of Kyoto: 
Climate Change Policy and Its Implications

 

 


 

Ecology, Liberty and Property: 
A Free Market Environmental Reader

 
 Read the Introduction Online
 
 
 
 
Articles

The Green Costs of Kelo: Economic Development Takings and Environmental Protection (with Ilya Somin), WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (forthcoming).[SSRN]

Once More, With Feeling: Reaffirming the Limits of Clean Water Act Jurisdiction, THE SUPREME COURT AND THE CLEAN WATER ACT: FIVE ESSAYS ON RAPANOS (K. Wroth ed., Vermont Law School Land Use Institute 2007, forthcoming) [SSRN]

When Is Two a Crowd: The Impact of Federal Action on State Environmental Regulation, 31 HARVARD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW (forthcoming) [SSRN]

Reckoning with Rapanos: Revisiting "Waters of the United States" and the Limits of Federal Wetland Regulation, 14 MISSOURI ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY REVIEW 1 (2006) [SSRN]

Don’t Politicize Science (Unless You’re on My Side), review of C. Mooney, The Republican War on Science, REGULATION, Spring 2007. [SSRN]

Standing in the Hot-Seat: Climate Change Litigation, ENGAGE, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2007).

Prosecuting Journalists Would be Unprecedented and Unwise, NATIONAL SECURITY LAW REPORT, Vol. 28, No. 3 (September 2006).

Review of D. Schoenbrod, Saving the Environment from Washington, INDEPENDENT REVIEW, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Summer 2006).

Back to the Future of Conservation: Changing Perceptions of Property Rights & Environmental Protection, 1 NYU JOURNAL OF LAW & LIBERTY 987 (2005) (symposium, invited) [Draft on SSRN]

Jurisdictional Mismatch in Environmental Federalism, 14 NYU ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL 130 (2005) (symposium, invited).

Looking Ahead to the 2005-06 Term, Cato Supreme Court Review 2004-05

Is Morrison Dead? Assessing a Supreme Drug (Law) Overdose, 9 Lewis & Clark Law Review 751 (2005)

A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: It’s Neither Vast nor a Conspiracy. Discuss, Legal Affairs (May-June 2005)

How to Protect Environmental Protections? 25 Environmental Law Reporter 10,413 (2005) (roundtable transcript)

Judicial Federalism and the Future of Federal Environmental Regulation, 90 Iowa Law Review 377 (2005)

Antitrust Barriers to Cooperative Fishery Management, in The Evolution of Property Rights in Fisheries, ed. D. Leal (2004)

Conservation Cartels: How Competition Policy Conflicts with Environmental Protection, Regulation (2004)

Conservation Through Collusion: Antitrust as an Obstacle to Marine Resource Conservation, 61 Washington and Lee Law Review (2004)

Frank Meyer: The Fusionist as Federalist, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Vol. 34, No. 4 (2004)

Marsh Madness, in Incentives and Conservation: The Next Generation of Environmentalism, ed. D. Benjamin (2004)

The Fable of Federal Environmental Regulation, 54 Case Western Reserve Law Review (2004) (symposium)

Regulating Genetically Modified Foods: Is Mandatory Labeling the Right Answer? 10 Richmond Journal of Law and Technology 14 (2003) (symposium)

(Review) “Free Market Environmentalism,” rev. ed., 22 Cato Journal 182 (2002)

Do Conservation Conventions Conserve? in SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: PROMOTING PROGRESS OR PERPETUATING POVERTY? (J. Morris, ed. 2002).

Fables of the Cuyahoga: Reconstructing a History of Environmental Protection, 14 Fordham Environmental Law Review 89 (2002) (symposium)

Introduction: The Virtues and Vices of Skeptical Environmentalism, 53 Case Western Reserve Law Review 249 (2002) (symposium) (with Andrew P. Morriss)

Judicial Federalism Not Anti-Environment, Environmental Forum, Vol. 19, No. 4 (2002)

Legal Obstacles to Private Ordering in Marine Fisheries, 8 Roger Williams University Law Review 9 (2002) (symposium)

The Precautionary Principle’s Challenge to Progress, Global Warming & Other Eco-Myths, ed. R. Bailey (2002)

The Role of the Judiciary in Preserving Federalism, 1 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 49 (2002) (inaugural symposium issue)

Free and Green: A New Approach to Environmental Protection, 24 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 653 (2001)

Let Fifty Flowers Bloom: Transforming the States into Laboratories of Environmental Policy, 31 Environmental Law Reporter 11,284 (2001)

Stand or Deliver: Citizen Suits, Standing, and Environmental Protection, 12 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 39 (2001)

The Ducks Stop Here? The Environmental Challenge to Federalism, 9 Supreme Court Economic Review 205 (2001)

Clean Politics, Dirty Profits, in The Politics of the Environment, ed. T. Anderson (2000)

Faux Market Environmentalism, Regulation, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2000)

More Sorry than Safe: Assessing the Precautionary Principle and the Proposed International Biosafety Protocol, 35 Texas International Law Journal 173 (2000)

The Cartagena Protocol and Biological Diversity: Biosafe or Bio-Sorry? 12 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 761 (2000)

Waste & the Dormant Commerce Clause—A Reply (response to Richard Epstein), 3 The Green Bag 2d 253 (2000)

Swamp Rules: The End of Federal Wetlands Regulation? Regulation, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1999)

Wetlands, Waterfowl, and the Menace of Mr. Wilson: Commerce Clause Jurisprudence and the Limits of Federal Wetlands Regulation, 29 Environmental Law 1 (1999)

A New Environmental Federalism, Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy (Winter 1998)

Bean Counting for a Better Earth: Environmental Enforcement at the EPA, Regulation, Vol. 21, No. 2 (1998)

The Green Aspects of Printz: The Revival of Federalism and Its Implications for Environmental Law, 6 George Mason Law Review 573 (Spring 1998)
 

Studies
Let Fifty Flowers Bloom: Unleashing State-Level Environmental Innovation (Federalism Project, American Enterprise Institute 2001)
Greenhouse Policy Without Regrets
,
lead author (Competitive Enterprise Institute) (PDF)
Environmental Performance at the Bench: The EPA's Record in Federal Court (Reason Public Policy Institute)
Property Rights, Regulatory Takings, and Environmental Protection
(Competitive Enterprise Institute) 
Time to Reopen the Clean Air Act: Clearing Away the Regulatory Smog
(with K.H. Jones) (Cato Institute) 
Taken to the Cleaners: A Case Study of the Overregulation of American Small Business
(Cato Institute)
 

Testimony
The Scope of "Waters of the United States" before the Senate Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water, 8/1/2006
Gas Price Act of 2005, before the Senate Environment Committee, 10/18/2005
Property Rights before the Senate Judiciary Committee 
Flow Control
before the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 
Federal Funding of the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
before the House Resources Committee

Miscellaneous

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS 

GOP Needs Environmental Message (1996 Commentary on NPR)
GOP vs. the Environment? (1995 IBD op-ed)

HOW DOES THE EPA FARE IN COURT?
A Legal Cloud Over EPA (Legal Times)
            [More on this subject]

DO THE FEDS NEED TO OWN MORE LAND?
The Great GOP Land Grab (Guest Commentary on National Review Online)
Debate on PBS' Technopolitics

IS THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE SOUND POLICY?
Better Safe than Sorry? (column from Intellectual Ammunition)
Greenhouse Policy Without Regrets, lead author (Competitive Enterprise Institute) (PDF)
The Cartagena Protocol and Biological Diversity: Biosafe or Bio-Sorry? 12 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review (2000) [available through SSRN]
More Sorry than Safe: Assessing the Precautionary Principle and Proposals for an International Biosafety Protocol,
35 Texas Intl Law Journal 173 (2000)

What Does It Mean to Be a "Green" Consumer?  
A Debate on National Public Radio 
(May 1999) [Real Audio File]

 

 


 

A more complete list of my publications is forthcoming on this site.
 
 

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