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Eric R. Dannenmaier Professor of Law and Dean's Fellow Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 337 530 W. New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225 Phone: (317) 278-9603 Fax: (317) 278-3326 E-Mail: edan@iu.edu SSRN Web Page

Education

B.A., 1981, Drury College (President's Scholar)
J.D., 1984, Boston University (Tauro Scholar)
LL.M., 2006, Columbia University (Kent Scholar)
M.St., 2008, Oxford University (Distinction)
J.S.D., 2012, Columbia University (Bretzfelder Fellow)

Courses

Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Water Law, Energy Law & Policy, Property, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, International Environmental Law

Bio

J.D., Boston University; LL.M., J.S.D., Columbia University; M.St., Oxford University.

Prior to joining the IU Law faculty, Professor Dannenmaier was a Bretzfelder Fellow at Columbia Law School from 2006-07; Director of Tulane Law School’s Institute for Environmental Law and Policy from 2001-05; and Visiting Chair of Natural Resources Law at the University of Calgary in 2001. He served as Director of the Environmental Law Program of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1996 to 2000, working through the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) in Washington, D.C. and the University of Miami’s North-South Center. He also practiced law for ten years in Boston and Washington, D.C. as a litigation and environmental compliance attorney.

Professor Dannenmaier’s scholarship is focused on environmental democracy, and he has researched and published widely on legal and institutional frameworks for public access to environmental decision-making in national and international law. His publications also address water rights, water and energy security, transboundary resource governance, indigenous property rights, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the design and implementation of climate change commitments.

In addition to teaching and research, Professor Dannenmaier serves as an advisor to governments, international organizations, and public interest groups in reforming environmental laws and designing legal frameworks for participation in development decision-making. In 1995, for example, he represented public interest groups in the U.S. and Mexico in the first citizen submission to the NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation (In re Silva Reservoir, concerning the death of over 20,000 migratory waterfowl in central Mexico). In 1998-99, Professor Dannenmaier advised the Organization of American States (OAS) on the development of an Inter-American Strategy for Public Participation in Sustainable Development Decision-making, which was approved by the OAS General Assembly in 2000. He also chaired the OAS Inter-American Water Policy Roundtable from 1999-2000. In 2004-05, he served on the Expert Advisory Group to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) to develop guidelines for Public Participation in International Fora under the Aarhus Convention (the “Almaty Guidelines,” adopted in 2005). In 2009-10, Professor Dannenmaier Co-Chaired a NATO-funded Advanced Research Workshop on Middle East/North Africa Regional Water Security.

Professor Dannenmaier is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First, Fourth, and District of Columbia Circuits.

Publications

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Books and Chapters

The Role of Non-State Actors in Climate Compliance, in Jutta Brunnée, et al., eds., PROMOTING COMPLIANCE SYSTEM IN AN EVOLVING CLIMATE CHANGE REGIME (Cambridge University Press) (2012)

Constructing Transnational Climate Regimes, in Gunther Handl and Joachim Zekoll, eds., BEYOND TERRITORIALITY: TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL AUTHORITY IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION (Brill Publishing) (in press 2012)

Water Security: Identifying Governance Issues and Engaging Stakeholders, in Andrea Scozzari and Bouabid el Mansouri, eds., WATER SECURITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION: AN INTERNATIONAL EVALUATION OF MANAGEMENT, CONTROL, AND GOVERNANCE APPROACHES, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series (Springer, Dordrecht) (2011)

[Work in Progress]: INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, A TRANSBOUNDARY AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, with Jonathan Nash (Aspen Press) (textbook, forthcoming)


Law Review and Journal Articles

Environmental Law and the Loss of Paradise, 49 COLUM. J. TRANSNATIONAL L. 463 - 95 (2010) (Essay Review of Oliver Houck's book TAKING BACK EDEN)

Lawmaking on the Road to International Summits, 59 DEPAUL L. REV. 1 - 68 (2009)

Beyond Indigenous Property Rights: Exploring the Emergence of a Distinctive Connection Doctrine, 86 WASH. U. L. REV. 53 - 110 (2008)

Executive Exclusion and the Cloistering of the Cheney Energy Task Force 16 N.Y.U. ENVTL. L.J. 329 - 79 (2008)

A European Commitment to Environmental Citizenship: Article 3.7 of the Aarhus Convention and Public Participation in International Forums, OXFORD Y.B. INT'L ENVTL. L. 32 - 64 (2007)

Trade, Democracy, and the FTAA: Public Access to the Process of Constructing a Free Trade Area of the Americas, 27 FORDHAM INT’L L. J. 1066 - 1117 (2004)

Johnston & Dannenmaier, Sustainable Use of Wildlife: The Role of Private Contracts as a Conservation Tool, 1 J. INT’L WILDLIFE L. & POL’Y 259 - 77 (1998)

Democracy in Development: Toward a Legal Framework for the Americas, 11 TULANE ENVTL L. J. 1 - 32 (1997)


Essays and Reports

Energy Security as National Security: Why Energy Matters to Midwestern and Great Plains States, with David Craig, Gabriel Filippelli, Alfred Ho, and Carol Rogers, (Pew Charitable Trust Project on National Security, Energy and Climate) (in revision) (2012)

Prior Appropriation and the Human Right to Water: Why the Common Law may Already Affirm a Fundamental Right, paper delivered to Willamette Law School Human Right to Water Conference (Feb 2011)

International Tribunals As Climate Institutions? Strengthening Access To Climate Justice, Proceedings, Yale/UNITAR Second Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy (September 19, 2010)

Democratic Models for International Environmental Institutions: Challenges, Taxonomies, and Citizen Advisory Groups, (2008) UNITAR Yale Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy

The JPAC at Ten: A Ten-Year Review of the Joint Public Advisory Commission of the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation (2005)

Dannenmaier, Stanley-Jones, and Vaclavikova, "At the Frontlines of Democracy: Strengthening the Public Voice in State Decisions That Affect the Environment," The Access Initiative – US, World Resources Institute (2004)

Co-Editor, Environmental Sustainability in Trade: Evaluating the Potential Impacts of the FTAA, the Case of Argentina, North-South Press (in Spanish) (September 2003)

Participación de Sociedad Civil en el ALCA, in HACIA UN DERECHO DE PARTICIPACIÓN EN LAS AMERICAS, at 67 (2003)

Dannenmaier & Cohen, Achieving Meaningful Compliance with Global Climate Change Commitments, Pew Center on Global Climate Change (Fall 2000)

Environmental Security in the Americas - Presentation to the Committee on Hemispheric Seccurity of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) (prepared for delivery by R.M. Meganck, Head, OAS Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment)

Environmental Security and Governance in the Americas, Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), Policy Paper No 01-4 (March 2001)

Meeting Sustainable Development Commitments in the Americas – Progress to Date, Leadership Council for Inter-American Summitry (white paper, December 2000)

Legal and Institutional Mechanisms for Public Participation in Development Decision-Making in the Americas, Inter-American Strategy for Public Participation (ISP) Legal Component Final Report (Organization of American States, April 1999)

Editor, "Las Politicas de Produccion Mas Limpia en el Ecuador" (Policies for Clean Production in Ecuador) (USAID 1998)

Editor, Practical Guide to Environmental Rights and Responsibilities in Nicaragua (Guia Practica sobre Derechos y Responsibilidades Ambientales en Nicaragua), Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Nicaragua (September 1998)

Report on the Preliminary Consultation Concerning Elements of an Inter-American Strategy for Public Participation, North-South, University of Miami (1997)

In Re Silva Reservoir: Citizen Submission to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Concerning Death of Migratory Waterfowl at Silva Reservoir, Gunajuato, Mexico (Prepared and filed as Counsel to National Audubon Society, Grupo de los Cien, and Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental), Summary Published as Annex 1 to "CEC Secretariat Report on the Death of Migratory Birds at the Silva Reservoir" (1994-95)


Work in Progress

James Madison, the Press, and the Premise of Popular Sovereignty

Exclusionary Laws and Ambivalent Locals: Perspectives on Access to Town Meetings in Pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts