Robert L. Glicksman, a graduate of the Cornell Law School, is the Robert W. Wagstaff Distinguished Professor of 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 treatise, Public Natural Resources Law (Thomson/West), the monograph, Risk Regulation at Risk: A Pragmatic Approach (Stanford University Press), 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.
Environmental Protection: Law and Policy (with Markell, Buzbee, Mandelker & Tarlock) (5th ed. 2007); Public Natural Resources Law (with Coggins) (2d ed. 2007-present); Risk Regulation at Risk: A Pragmatic Approach (with Shapiro) (2003); Modern Public Land Law in a Nutshell (with Coggins) (3d ed. 2006); Contributor to NEPA Law and Litigation (D. Mandelker, ed.) (2004-present); Securing Judicial Review of Agency Inaction (and Action) in the Wake of Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, in STRATEGIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUCCESS IN AN UNCERTAIN JUDICIAL CLIMATE (M. Wolf, ed.) (2005); “Nothing Is Real: Protecting the Regulatory Void through Federal Preemption by Inaction,” 26 Va. Envtl. L.J. 5 (2008); "The Comparative Effectiveness of Government Interventions on Environmental Performance in the Chemical Industry," 26 Stanford Envtl.L.J. 317 (2007) (with D. Earnhart); "Depiction of the Regulator-Regulated Entity Relationship in the Chemical Industry: Deterrence-Based v. Cooperative Enforcement," 31 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 603 (2007) (with D. Earnhart) "Global Climate Change and the Risks to Coastal Areas from Hurricanes and Rising Sea Levels: The Costs of Doing Nothing," 52 Loyola L. Rev. 1127 (2006); "Justice Rehnquist and the Dismantling of Environmental Law," 36 Envtl. L. Rep. 10585 (2006) (with J. May); From Cooperative to Inoperative Federalism. The Perverse Mutation of Environmental Law and Policy, 41 Wake Forest L. Rev. 719; Regulations in Name Only. How the Bush Administration's National Forest Planning Rule Frees the Forest Service from Mandatory Standards and Public Accountability, Center for Progressive Reform White Paper (June 2005), available here (with A. Flournoy & M. Clune); The APA and the Back End of Regulation: Procedures for Informal Adjudication, 56 Admin. L. Rev. 1159 (2004) (with S. Shapiro);"Improving Regulation Through Incremental Adjustment," 52 Kansas Law Review 1179 (2004) (with S. Shapiro); "Traveling in Opposite Directions: Roadless Area Management Under the Clinton and Bush Administrations," 34 Environmental Law 1143 (2004); "The Value of Agency-Forcing Citizen Suits to Enforce Nondiscretionary Duties," 10 Widener Law Review 353 (2004); "Goals, Instruments and Environmental Policy Choice," 10 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 297 (2000) (with S. Shapiro); "Chevron, State, Farm, and EPA in the Courts of Appeals During the 1990s," 31 Environmental Law Reporter 10371 (2001) (with C. Schroeder); "Regulatory Reform and (Breach of) the Contract With America: Improving Environmental Policy or Destroying Environmental Protection?" 5 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 9 (with S. Chapman) (Winter 1996); "Pollution on the Federal Lands III: Regulation of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management," 13 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 3 (1994); "EPA and the Courts: Twenty Years of Law and Politics," 54 Journal of Law & Contem. Probs. 249 (with C. Schroeder) (1991); "Judicial Activism and Restraint in the Supreme Court’s Environmental Law Decisions," 42 Vanderbilt Law Review 343 (with R. Levy) (1989); "To the Promised Land: A Century of Wandering and A Final Homeland for the Due Process and Taking Clauses," 68 Oregon Law Review 393 (with M. Davis) (1989).
Environmental and public natural resources law, climate change, administrative law, property.
J.D. 1977, Cornell, Cornell Law Review; M.A. 1974, Harvard; A.B. 1973, Union College
D.C. 1977
Associate, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, DC, 1977-81; Assistant Professor, Arkansas, Fayetteville 1981-82; Associate Professor, Kansas 1982-86; Professor since 1986; Robert W. Wagstaff Distinguished Professor since 1996; Visiting Professorships: Miami (1988), UMKC (1998), Vermont (summer 2000), Lewis & Clark (summer 2002)
Board of Directors, Center for Progressive Reform; Order of the Coif; Phi Beta Kappa; Advisory Comm., Kansas Water Resources Institute, 1982-89.
