ENERGY, ENVIRONMENTAL & NATURAL RESOURCES SYSTEMS PROGRAM FACULTY PUBLICATIONS & HIGHLIGHTS 2020 - 2022

vanessa-casado-perez-2VANESSA CASADO PÉREZ is an associate professor at Texas A&M School of Law and a research associate professor in Texas A&M Department of Agricultural Economics. She writes and teaches in the areas of property, natural resources, and climate change. Her recent and forthcoming publications include: Pre-distribution, Northwestern Law Review (forthcoming 2022); Natural Transplants, New York University Law Review (forthcoming 2022); Ownership Concentration: Lessons from Natural Resources, 117 Northwestern University Law Review 37 (2022); Reclaiming the Streets, 106 Iowa Law Review 2185 (2021); Too Simple Rules for a Complex World? Prior Appropriation Water Rights as Natural Rights, comment on Eric Claeys’ NATURAL PROPERTY RIGHTS–Texas A&M Journal of Property Law (2021); Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate Change Litigation, 22 German Law Journal 1287 (2021); Environmental Law, Disrupted by COVID-19, 49 Environmental Law Reporter 10038 (2021); and the chapter Whose Water? Corporatization of a Common Good in Environmental Law, Disrupted (K. Hirokawa & J. Owley, eds., Environmental Law Institute 2020). Casado also published a short essay in the Michigan Journal of Law and Mobility, The Last Mile of Public Space, on the challenges posed by delivery robots and micro-mobility vehicles. In November 2020, she was invited to present at the Iowa Law Review Symposium on the Future of Law and Transportation. From 2020 to 2022, Casado presented her work at, among others, faculty workshops at Oklahoma University and George Mason, the Annual Sabin Colloquium on Innovative Environmental Law scholarship at Columbia, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation – University of Utah Water Law WIP, the SCALE conference at Arizona State, and the Texas A&M Enviroschmooze.

Eckstein_Gabriel2-318GABRIEL ECKSTEIN is a professor of law and director of the Energy, Environmental & Natural Resources Systems Law Program at Texas A&M School of Law. He researches and writes in the areas of U.S. and international water law, as well as on other natural resource law and policy areas. His forthcoming pieces include: Edited book on COOPERATING OVER SHARED FRESHWATER RESOURCES USING INTERNATIONAL LAW, part of the 4-volume series Prof. Shlomi Dinar, Ed. WORLD SCIENTIFIC HANDBOOK ON TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT (World Scientific, forthcoming 2023); Chapter on An Historical Overview of the Evolution and Broadening of International Water Law (co-authored with Laura Movilla) in G. Eckstein (Ed.), COOPERATING OVER SHARED FRESHWATER RESOURCES USING INTERNATIONAL LAW (World Scientific, forthcoming 2023); Chapter on Data Sharing for the Transboundary Helmand River Basin: A Mechanism for Water Cooperation among Co-riparian States (co-authored with Najibullah Loodin, Vijay P. Singh, and Rosario Sanchez) in Kinga Szálkai and Máté Szalai (Eds.), THEORIZING TRANSBOUNDARY WATERS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (forthcoming 2023); Monograph on IDENTIFYING INTERNATIONAL LEGAL TRENDS FOR MANAGING TRANSBOUNDARY GROUNDWATER RESOURCES, The Groundwater Project: Guelph, Ontario, Canada (forthcoming 2023); Monograph on CHARACTERIZING LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF TRANSBOUNDARY AQUIFERS, The Groundwater Project: Guelph, Ontario, Canada (forthcoming 2022); Article on Don’t put all your eggs in one basket: Social perspectives on desalination and water recycling in Israel, Water Policy (2022) (co-authored with Drs. Gretchen Sneegas, Lucas Seghezzo, Christian Brannstrom, and Wendy Jepson); Chapter on Characterizing Legal Implications for the Use of Transboundary Aquifers, Proceedings of ISARM2021–2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSBOUNDARY AQUIFERS: CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD, UNESCO-ISARM (forthcoming 2022). Eckstein’s recently published books and monographs include: STRENGTHENING COOPERATION OVER TRANSBOUNDARY GROUNDWATER RESOURCES (Routledge, 2022) (co-edited with Dr. Alice Aureli, UNESCO-IHP); GROUNDWATER LAWS AND REGULATIONS: SURVEY OF SIXTEEN U.S. STATES Vol. II, (Texas A&M University Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resources Systems Law Program, 2022) (co-edited with Prof. Amy Hardberger, Texas Tech University School of Law); GROUNDWATER LAWS AND REGULATIONS: A PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF THIRTEEN U.S. STATES Vol. I (2nd Ed.), (Texas A&M University Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resources Systems Law Program, 2020) (co- edited with Prof. Amy Hardberger, Texas Tech University School of Law). He also published or edited the following book chapters: Contributing author to Ch. 2: Legal and other institutional aspects of groundwater governance; Ch. 10: Groundwater policy and planning; and Ch. 12: Transboundary aquifers, in United Nations, THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD WATER DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2022–GROUNDWATER: MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE (UNESCO, Paris, 2022); Current Challenges in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo Basin: Old Disputes in a New Century, in WATER RESOURCES ALLOCATION AND AGRICULTURE: TRANSITIONING FROM OPEN TO REGULATED ACCESS (Josselin Rouillard, at.al., Eds., Edward Elgar 2022) (co-authored with Regina Buono); Scientific, Legal, and Ethical Foundations for Texas Water Law in ESSENTIALS OF TEXAS WATER RESOURCES 7th, Ch. 1: pp.5–35 (co-authored with Prof. Amy Hardberger, Texas Tech University School of Law) (M. Sahs, ed., State Bar of Texas, updated 2022); Texas in WATERS AND WATER RIGHTS 4th (Amy Kelley Ed., LexisNexis Matthew Bender, updated 2022). Eckstein’s recently published articles in the following peer-reviewed journals: Binational reflections on pathways to groundwater security in the Mexico–United States borderlands, Water International (2021) (co-authored with Dr. Rosario Sanchez, et.al.); International Law for Transboundary Aquifers: A Challenge for Our Times, in AJIL Unbound Symposium: Interstate Disputes Over Water Rights, American Journal of International Law (May 2021); Introduction to the Symposium on Interstate Disputes Over Water Rights, in AJIL Unbound Symposium: Interstate Disputes Over Water Rights, American Journal of International Law (May 2021) (co-authored with Prof. Jim Salzman, UCLA Law); Groundwater management in the borderlands of Mexico and Texas: The beauty of the unknown, the negligence of the present, and the way forward, Water Resources Research, Vol. 56(3) (2020) (co-authored with Dr. Rosario Sanchez, Texas Water Resources Institute); and The Status of the UN Watercourses Convention: Does it Still Hold Water?, International Journal of Water Resources Development, Vol.36(2-3) pp. 429-461 (2020). Eckstein also published the following essays: The Rio Grande/Río Bravo Basin: old disputes in a new century, Global Water Forum, September 28, 2022 (co-authored with Regina Buono); Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the International Water Resources Association, Water International, Vol. 46(1), pp. 5-7 (2021); Achieving water justice for world water Day 2021: valuing water under the Biden administration, Water Science Policy, March 28, 2021. In January 2023, Eckstein will co-chair the UNESCO-IWRA Conference on Emerging Pollutants: Protecting Water Quality for the Health of People and the Environment; in December 2021, Eckstein completed his term as President of the International Water Resources Association; in August 2021, Eckstein was invited by Sai University in India to serve as a Visiting Fellow of their Water Law Initiative, and an Academic Advisor for the Sai University School of Law.

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GUILLERMO GARCIA-SANCHEZ is an associate professor of law who focuses his research and teaching on the international legal architecture that regulates global energy, with an emphasis on investor-state dispute resolution and U.S.-Mexico energy relations. His upcoming piece includes: In the Name of Energy Sovereignty, 83.8 Boston College Law Review (forthcoming 2022); and North American Energy in the Crossfire, Cornell International Law Journal (forthcoming 2022).  His recently published law review articles include When Drills and Pipelines Cross Indigenous Lands in the Americas, 51.4 Seton Hall Law Review 1121 (2021); and The Footprint of the Chinese Petro-Dragon: The Future of Investment Law in Transboundary Resources, 94.2 Tulane Law Review 314 (2020). Recently he also contributed chapters to two books: International Investment Law in Latin America: the case of Mexico, in Héléne Ruiz Fabri and Edoardo Stoppioni (Eds.) INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW: AN ANALYSIS OF THE MAJOR DECISIONS, (Hart Publishing 2022); and The Mexican Petroleum License of 2013: A Step to the Past to Bring Mexico into the Present and the Grounds for an Uncertain Future, in Tina Soliman Hunter, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, and Ernst Nordtveit (Eds.) THE NATURE OF PETROLEUM LICENSES, (Edward Elgar, 2020). Garcia also published two OP-EDs: Three nations divided on energy policy, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, Wednesday, November 24, 2021, p. 12A, coauthored with James W. Coleman; and Texas must show the world it can rely on U.S. energy, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, Friday, October 29, 2021, p. A9, coauthored with James W. Coleman. In 2020-2022 Garcia presented his research at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, the Center for U.S. and Mexican Law at the University of Houston Law Center North American Consortium on Legal Education Annual Conference, the American Society of International Law Research forum 2021 held at the University of Miami School of Law, the International Law Association American Branch International Law Weekend 2021, the Boston College Law School JILSA Summer 2021 Workshop, and the University of Colorado Law School Energy Scholars Workshop 2021. In recognition of his academic impact on energy law and the North American region, in 2021 Garcia was invited to join the Aberdeen University Center for Energy Law as an Associate Member, and the Coppel-Intuit Center for Binational Institutions at the U.S.-Mexico Foundation as a Non-Resident Fellow. Additionally, he is a regular commentator in news outlets in Mexico and the U.S. on the state of U.S.-Mexico energy relations, global energy markets, and the impact of energy transition policies in the petroleum industry. 

felix-mormann-0890w-5FELIX MORMANN is a professor of law with a joint appointment in the Texas A&M Department of Engineering, writes and teaches in the areas of climate, energy, and cleantech innovation, exploring environmental challenges through a business-oriented lens. His forthcoming piece Climate Choice Architecture will appear in 64 Boston College Law Review (2023 Forthcoming). Mormann’s recent publications include: The Case for Corporate Climate Ratings: Nudging Financial Markets, 53 Arizona State Law Journal 1209 (2022); Of Markets and Subsidies: Counterintuitive Policy Trends for Clean Energy in the European Union and the United States, 10 Transnational Environmental Law 1 (2021); Beyond Algorithms: Toward a Normative Theory of Automated Regulation, 62 Boston College Law Review 1 (2021); and Why the Divestment Movement is Missing the Mark, 10 Nature Climate Change 1067 (2020). Recently, he also published two essays: Texas’s War Against ESG Investing Is Ingenious But Futile, The Washington Post (2022); and It’s Time to Give Companies Standalone Climate Ratings appeared in Harvard Business Review (2022). Mormann presented his research at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, George Washington University School of Law, Arizona State University School of Law, the Dallas Bar Association, and the Environmental Works-in-Progress Symposium co-organized by the University of Colorado School of Law, UCLA School of Law, and UC Santa Barbara, among others. In spring 2020, Professor Mormann chaired Texas A&M University’s 11th Annual Energy Law Symposium. In fall 2021, he co-organized Texas A&M University School of Law’s 3rd Annual EnviroSchmooze.

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TIMOTHY MULVANEY is a professor of law who writes and teaches in the areas of property, land use, and environmental law. He has two forthcoming pieces: Under Property Taxes will appear in 123 Columbia Law Review (forthcoming 2023); and Essential Property, will appear in 107 Minnesota Law Review (forthcoming 2022) and was co-authored with Joseph W. Singer. His recent publications include Compulsory Terms in Property, 117 Northwestern University Law Review 191 (2022); Takings Localism, 121 Columbia Law Review 215 (2021) (with Nestor Davidson, Fordham University School of Law); Walling Out: Rules and Standards in the Beach Access Context, 93 Southern California Law Review 1 (2021); and A World of Distrust, 120 Columbia Law Review Forum 153 (2020). Mulvaney presented various stages of these projects at Boston University Law School, Cornell Law School, Harvard Law School, Maastricht University, Michigan Law School, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh. He has been appointed as a Texas A&M University Chancellor’s EDGES Fellow and as one of four inaugural Faculty Fellows of the Centre for Property Law at the University of Cambridge. He also recently assumed a joint appointment in the Marine and Coastal Environmental Science Department at Texas A&M-Galveston.

Daniel Walters-3-1DANIEL WALTERS is an associate professor of law whose research interests focus primarily on the administrative state and climate change. He has several forthcoming law review pieces, including: If We Build It, Will They Legislate? Empirically Testing the Nondelegation Doctrine’s Potential to Curb Congressional “Abdication”, 108 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2023); Grid Governance in the Energy Trilemma Era: Remedying the Democracy Deficit, 74 Alabama Law Review (forthcoming 2023); The Administrative Agon: A Democratic Theory for a Conflictual Regulatory State, 132 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2022); and Lumpy Social Goods in Energy Decarbonization: Why We Need More Than Just Markets for the Clean Energy Transition, 92 University of Colorado Law Review (forthcoming 2022). He has several other recent publications appearing in law reviews, including: Decoding Nondelegation After Gundy: What the Experience in the States Tells Us About What to Expect When We’re Expecting, 71 Emory law Journal 417 (2022); Unrules 73 Stanford Law Review 885 (2021); Symmetry’s Mandate: Constraining the Politicization of American Administrative Law, 119 Michigan Law Review 445 (2020); Litigating EPA Rules: A Fifty-Year Retrospective of Environmental Rulemaking in the Courts, 70 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1007 (2020); and Whither the Regulatory ‘War on Coal’? Scapegoats, Saviors, and Stock Market Reactions, 47 Ecology Law Quarterly 1 (2020). He also published a review of  Brian J. Cook, The Fourth Branch: Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic in 19(4) Perspectives on Politics 1346 (2021). In addition, Walters produced a variety of other publications, including: How Agencies Should Respond to West Virginia v. EPA, Law & Political Economy Blog (July 5, 2022); Taking Democracy Seriously in the Administrative State, Law & Political Economy Blog (May 16, 2022); No, the Supreme Court Cannot Save Democracy, The Regulatory Review (Apr. 11, 2022); SEC Proposes Far-Reaching Climate Disclosure Rules for Companies Here’s Where the Rules May Be Vulnerable to Legal Challenges, The Conversation (Mar. 22, 2022); SEC Is Considering Climate Disclosure Rules for U.S. Companies—And Facing Threats of Lawsuits, The Conversation (Mar. 7, 2022) (with William M. Manson); Unrules Can Unravel Business Regulations, Oxford Business Law Blog (Aug. 23, 2021) (with Cary Coglianese & Gabriel Scheffler); The Supreme Court’s “Exceptional” Term, The Regulatory Review (July 19, 2021) (with Cary Coglianese & Gabriel Scheffler); The Supreme Court’s “Exceptional” Term, Yale Journal of Regulation: Notice & Comment Blog (July 9, 2021) (with Cary Coglianese & Gabriel Scheffler); A Trojan Horse From the Court’s Conservatives?, The Regulatory Review (June 21, 2021) (with Cary Coglianese); Chevron on the Chopping Block, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, & Resources (May/June 2021); and The Government’s Hidden Superpower: ‘Unrules,’, Fortune Magazine (Oct. 30, 2020) (with Cary Coglianese & Gabe Scheffler).