Publications

Books

• Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law. Abingdon: Routledge (2020).
  • ​Named "Book of the Week" by AI with AI Podcast.
  • Reviewed in Science & Engineering Ethics, Earth System Governance, International Journal of Constitutional Law.
  • Discussed on Sentientism, The Dolores Project, Philosophical Disquisitions, Liminal Spaces, and Machine Ethics podcasts.
  • Named a #1 Best Seller on Amazon in 7 different categories. 
• The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights. Abingdon: Routledge (2017).
  • ​Reviewed in Global Environmental Politics, Transnational Environmental Law.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• "Re-imagining Intelligent Machines in an Anthropocentric-Ecocentric Continuum: The Case for Ecocentric Intelligent Machines." Journal of Industrial Information Integration. Online First (2024; with Didem Gürdür Broo and Henrik Skaug Særta).
• "The Matter with Subjects of Justice." Environmental Politics. Online First (2024).
• "AI Ethics Discourse: A Call to Embrace Complexity, Interdisciplinary, and Epistemic Humility." AI & Society. Online First (2023).
• "Experiential Learning Exercises' Effects on Students' Attitudes Toward the Global Poor." Journal of Political Science Education. 19(1): 119-133 (2022; with Robert Nyenhuis).
• "Deploying Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence in Sustainable Development Research." Environment, Development and Sustainability. 25: 4957–4988 (2022; with Walter Leal Filho, Peter Yang, Anabela Marisa Azul, João Henrique Paulino Pires Eustachio, Joshua C. Gellers, Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, Agata Gielczyk, and Valerija Kozlova).
• "Earth System Law: Exploring New Frontiers in Legal Science." Earth System Governance (Special Issue on Earth System Law: Towards a New Legal Paradigm for the Anthropocene). 11: 100126 (2021; with Louis J. Kotzé, Rakhyun E. Kim, Catherine Blanchard, Cameron Holley, Marie Petersmann, Harro van Asselt, Frank Biermann, and Margot Hurlbert).
• "Earth System Law and the Legal Status of Non-humans in the Anthropocene." Earth System Governance (Special Issue on Earth System Law: Towards a New Legal Paradigm for the Anthropocene). 7: 100083 (2021).
• "Environmental Rights in the Asia Pacific Region: Taking Stock and Assessing Impacts." Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law. 22(2): 190-206 (2019; with Chris Jeffords).
• "Environmental Determinants of Chinese Development Finance in Africa." Journal of Environment and Development. 28(2): 111-141 (2019; with Chris Jeffords).
• "Toward Environmental Democracy? Procedural Environmental Rights and Environmental Justice." Global Environmental Politics. 18(1): 99-121 (2018; with Chris Jeffords).
• "Constitutionalizing Environmental Rights: A Practical Guide." Journal of Human Rights Practice. 9(1): 136-145 (2017; with Chris Jeffords).
• "The Great Indoors: Linking Human Rights and the Built Environment." Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. 7(2): 243-261 (2016).
• "Crowdsourcing Global Governance: Sustainable Development Goals, Civil Society, and the Pursuit of Democratic Legitimacy." International Environmental Agreements. 16(3): 415-432 (2016).
• "Constitutional Environmentalism in South Asia: Analyzing the Experiences of Nepal and Sri Lanka." Transnational Environmental Law. 4(2): 395-423 (2015).

• "Greening Critical Discourse Analysis: Applications to the Study of Environmental Law." Critical Discourse Studies. 12(4): 483-492 (2015).

• "Explaining the Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights: A Global Quantitative Analysis." Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. 6(1): 75-97 (2015).

• "Sisters in Sustainability: Municipal Partnerships for Social, Environmental, and Economic Growth." Sustainability Science. 9(3): 277-292 (2014; with Dustin McLarty, Nora Davis, Nasrin Nasrollahi, and Erik Altenbernd).

• "Greening Constitutions with Environmental Rights: Testing the Isomorphism Thesis." Review of Policy Research. 29(4): 522-542 (2012).

Non-Peer Reviewed Articles and Other Works​

• "An Inconvenient Reflection on Human Rights: Comments on Choi-Fitzpatrick's Article, 'Disruption and Emergence'." Journal of Human Rights. 23(3): 314-319 (2024).
• "Not Ecological Enough: A Commentary on an Eco-Relational Approach in Robot Ethics." Philosophy & Technology (2024).
• "Contentment in the Age of Technology: A Case for Cautious Optimism." Dharma World. 51: 9-11 (2024).
• "The Tortured Politics of Nonhuman Personhood: AI, Animals, Embryos, and Nature." Environmental Rights Review (2024).
• "​Animal Rights and the Property Problem: A Response to Davy." International Association of Constitutional Law-AIDC Blog (2024).
• "The Flawed Case Against More-than-Human Rights." Open Global Rights (2023).
• "Emerging Technologies and Earth System Governance in the Anthropocene: Editorial." Earth System Governance (Special Issue on AI & Digitalization). 14: 100157 (2022).
• "Everything You Know About the Lemoine-LaMDA Affair is Wrong." Can an AI Be Sentient? Multiple Perspectives on Sentience and on the Potential Ethical Implications of the Rise of Sentient AI, Global AI Ethics Institute, Notes no. 2: 27-29 (2022).
• "Is 2022 the Year AI Ethics Takes Sustainability Seriously?" Global Trends in AI 2022, Global AI Ethics Institute. Notes no. 1: 15-18 (2022).
• "Sustainable Development Goals and Environmental Justice: Realization through Disaggregation?" Wisconsin International Law Journal. 36(2): 276-297 (2019; with Trevor J. Cheatham).
• "Righting Environmental Wrongs: Assessing the Role of Legal Systems in Redressing Environmental Grievances." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation. 26(2): 461-492 (2011).

                * Reprinted in J.R. May and E. Daly (Eds.), Environmental Constitutionalism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2016).

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• "AI, Design, and More-than-Human Justice." In D. Gunkel (Ed.), Handbook on the Ethics of AI, pp. 128-142. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2024).
• "Artificial Intelligence and International Human Rights Law: Implications for Humans and Technology in the 21st Century and Beyond." In A. Zwitter and O.J. Gstrein (Eds.), Handbook on the Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 430-455. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2023; with David Gunkel). 
• "Implementing Environmental Rights: Reviewing the Evidence from Research and Practice." In J. Sowers, S.D. VanDeveer, and E. Weinthal (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics, pp. 518-537. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2021; with Chris Jeffords).
• "Colombo International Financial City: An Example of Unsustainability and Injustice." In S.A. Atapattu, C.G. Gonzalez, and S.L. Seck (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development, pp. 225-240. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2021; with Lakshman Guruswamy and Sumudu Atapattu).
• "Implementing Substantive Constitutional Environmental Rights: A Quantitative Assessment of Current Practices Using Benchmark Rankings." In J.R. May and E. Daly (Eds.), Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism, pp. 34-58. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2018; with Chris Jeffords).
• "No. 2: Other Defects of the Present Confederation." In D.A. Carrillo (Ed.), The Icelandic Federalist Papers, pp. 7-9. Berkeley: Berkeley Public Policy Press (2018).
• "Crowdsourcing Sustainable Development Goals from Global Civil Society." In R. Matthew et al. (Eds.), The WSPC Reference on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change Volume 2: The Social Ecology of the Anthropocene: Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics, pp. 415-438. Singapore: World Scientific Publishers (2016).​​