FACULTY PUBLICATIONS AND HIGHLIGHTS (2019-2021)

Vanessa-Casado-PerezVanessa Casado Pérez is an associate professor and a research associate professor in agricultural economics. She writes and teaches in the areas of property, natural resources, and climate change. Her recent publications include: Reclaiming the Streets, 106 Iowa L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021) (SSRN); Liquid Business, 47 Florida State University L. Rev. 201 (2019) (SSRN); and the chapter Whose Water? Corporatization of a Common Good in Environmental Law, Disrupted (K. Hirokawa & J. Owley, eds. Forthcoming Environmental Law Institute 2020). She is now working on a project with Yael Lifshitz (King’s College) on internal legal transplants across different areas of natural resources law and on a new paper on sidewalk privatization. She 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. She has presented her working paper on legal transplants at the Annual Sabin Colloquium on Innovative Environmental Law scholarship at Columbia and at the Rocky Mineral Law Foundation – University of Utah Water Law WIP. She was invited to present at the Iowa Law Review Symposium on the Future of Law and Transportation.

 

eckstein_gabriel-300Gabriel Eckstein, during 2020, published two articles in peer-reviewed journals: The Status of the UN Watercourses Convention: Does it Still Hold Water?, 36(2-3) International Journal of Water Resources Development, 429 (2020), and Groundwater Management in the Borderlands of Mexico and Texas: The Beauty of the Unknown, the Negligence of the Present, and the Way Forward, 56(3) Water Resources Research 1 (2020) (with Dr. Rosario Sanchez). He also published a peer-reviewed chapter: Water Diplomacy and Conflict Management on the Mexico-US Border, in Water Diplomacy and Conflict Management: The Role of River Basin Organizations (Schmeier & Kittikhoun Eds., Routledge 2020) (with M.E. Giner), as well as three other monographs and an essay. During this time, Eckstein also gave ten invited presentations, including: The Rights of Rivers – A new Approach to Managing Freshwater Resources?, at the conference From the Right to Water to the Right to Hope: New Paradigms in Environmental Law for the Institute for Global Dialogue & Culture of Encounter in Argentina, and The Status of International Water Law – Research and Practice at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands. He also moderated three panels for the US-Mexico Permanent Forum of Binational Waters.

 

Guillermo-Garcia-SanchezGuillermo Garcia-Sanchez has special expertise on the impact of international law and dispute resolution mechanisms on energy markets. His article The Footprint of the Chinese PetroDragon: The Future of Investment Law in Transboundary Resources, 94 Tul. L. Rev 313 (2020) (SSRN), reviewed recent treaties to develop joint hydrocarbon resources in the Gulf of Mexico and examined the impact of these treaties on disputes in the South China Sea. In November 2020, along with other internationally recognized energy experts, he published a chapter in The Character of Petroleum Licenses (Edward Elgar, 2020), where he featured the legal framework of foreign investments in the hydrocarbons sector of Mexico. Professor Garcia-Sanchez’s upcoming article on the legal conflicts that emerge in international investment and human right tribunals when energy infrastructure projects are built over indigenous lands (When Drills and Pipelines Cross Indigenous Lands in the Americas, 51.4 Seton Hall L. Rev. (2021) (SSRN)), was presented at the 13th Annual AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference and in at the 2020 ASIL’s International Courts and Tribunals Works-in-Progress Conference, and to the Human Rights Interests Group at ASIL’s Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Professor Garcia-Sanchez received a grant in 2020 from the Texas-Mexico Center at SMU to study the recently-approved United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and its effectiveness in dealing with complaints by U.S. energy companies against Mexico’s recent changes in energy policy.

 

Felix-MormannFelix Mormann’s recent and forthcoming publications in peer-reviewed journals include “Why the Divestment Movement is Missing the Mark,” 10 Nature Climate Change 1067 (2020), and “Of Markets and Subsidies: Counterintuitive Policy Trends for Clean Energy in the European Union and the United States,” Transnational Environmental Law (2021 forthcoming) (SSRN). Recent work published in law reviews includes “Beyond Algorithms: Toward a Normative Theory of Automated Regulation,“ 62 Boston College Law Review 1 (2021) (SSRN), “Betting on Climate Policy: Using Prediction Markets to Address Global Warming,” 52 U.C. Davis Law Review 1429 (2019) (with G. Lucas, Jr.) (SSRN), and “Clean Energy Equity,” Utah Law Review 335 (2019) (SSRN). Professor Mormann presented this and other work at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, George Washington 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 2020, he co-organized and presented at Texas A&M University’s 2nd Annual EnviroSchmooze.

 

Timothy-M-MulvanneyTimothy Mulvaney serves as the law school’s associate dean for faculty research and a professor of law. In his role as associate dean, he is tasked with accelerating, promoting, and recognizing faculty excellence in scholarly engagement, productivity, and impact. In his role as a professor of law, he writes and teaches in the areas of property, land use, and environmental law. His recent publications include Takings Localism, 121 Columbia Law Review (forthcoming 2021) (with Fordham’s Nestor Davidson); Walling Out, 71 Southern California Law Review (forthcoming 2021) (SSRN); A World of Distrust, 120 Columbia Law Review Forum 153 (2020) (SSRN); and The State of Exactions, 61 William & Mary Law Review 169 (2019) (SSRN). He 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 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.