The Unraveling of U.S. Environmental Law

Robert L. Glicksman

J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law

The George Washington University Law School

Robert L. Glicksman is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on environmental, natural resources, and administrative law issues. A graduate of the Cornell Law School, his areas of expertise include environmental, natural resources, administrative, and property law. Before joining the law school faculty in 2009, Professor Glicksman taught at the University of Kansas School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 1982 and was named the holder of the Robert W. Wagstaff Distinguished Professor of Law in 1995. Professor Glicksman has practiced with law firms in DC and New Jersey before joining and while on leave from academia, focusing on environmental, energy, and administrative law issues. He has consulted on various environmental and natural resources law issues, including work for the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation in Montreal, Canada.

Professor Glicksman has extensive publications in his areas of expertise. He is co-author of two law school casebooks, Environmental Protection: Law and Policy (9th ed. Aspen Publishing) and Administrative Law: Agency Action in Legal Context (4th ed. Foundation Press); the most comprehensive treatise on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) – NEPA Law and Litigation (Thomson Reuters 2024 ed.); the four-volume treatise, Public Natural Resources Law (2d ed. Thomson/West; updated twice annually); three monographs, Reorganizing Government: A Functional and  Dimensional Framework (NYU Press 2019), and Risk Regulation at Risk: A Pragmatic Approach, and Pollution Limits and Polluters’ Efforts to Comply: The Role of Government Monitoring and Enforcement, both published by Stanford University Press, and Modern Public Land Law in a Nutshell (5th ed. West Academic 2019). Professor Glicksman is also the co-author of Statutory Analysis in the Regulatory State (Foundation Press 2014, and Modern Public Land Law in a Nutshell (West Academic 5th ed. 2019). He has written numerous book chapters and articles on a variety of environmental, natural resources, and administrative law topics, on topics such as alternative ways to allocate regulatory authority, separation of powers in administrative law, climate change, federalism issues in environmental law, the challenges facing the federal land management agencies, and environmental enforcement. His articles have been published in law reviews and journals that include the Pennsylvania Law Review, Texas Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, Alabama Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, University of Colorado Law Review, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Harvard Journal of Legislation, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Virginia Environmental Law Journal, and Administrative Law Review.

Professor Glicksman has been a member scholar for the Center for Progressive Reform since 2002 and was a member of the Center’s Board of Directors from 2008 to 2024.