Publications

Book

• The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights. New York: Routledge (2017).
  • ​Reviewed in Global Environmental Politics (2018) and Transnational Environmental Law (2018).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• "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​

• "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

• "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).

Book Reviews

• Review of Ben Boer et al., The Mekong: A Socio-Legal Approach to River Basin Development, New York: Routledge, 2016. Global Environmental Politics. 17(3): 149-151 (2017).
• Review of Kerri Woods, Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010. International Environmental Agreements. 12(2): 211-214 (2012).

• Review of Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, and Heike Schroeder (Eds.), Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008. International Environmental Agreements. 10(1): 85-87 (2010).

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Manuscripts in Progress

• "The Effects of Experiential Learning Exercises on Student Attitudes Towards the Global Poor" (with Robert Nyenhuis)
• Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law (under contract with Routledge)
• "Colombo International Financial City: An Example of Un-sustainability and In-justice?" (with Lakshman Guruswamy and Sumudu Atapattu; chapter in the edited volume Cambridge Handbook on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development)