Directory of Scholars

HARI OSOFSKY

J.D., B.A.. PH.D. STUDENT (GEOGRAPHY)
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

email osofskyh@wlu.edu

Primary Research Interests

  • Climate change law
  • Environmental dispute resolution (litigation, mediation, etc)
  • Human rights & the environment
  • Indigenous peoples & the environment
  • Municipal & land use planning

Secondary Research Interests

  • Corporate environmental responsibility
  • Environmental ethics & justice
  • Environmental politics
  • Science & risk in environmental regulation

Selected Publications

  • Is Climate Change “International”?: Litigation’s Diagonal Regulatory Role, 49 VA. J. INT’L L. 585 (2009).
  • The Geography of Justice Wormholes: Dilemmas from Property and Criminal Law, 53 VILLANOVA L. REV. 117 (2008).
  • The Geography of Climate Change Litigation Part II: Narratives of Massachusetts v. EPA, 8 CHICAGO J. INT’L L. 573 (2008).
  • Climate Change Litigation as Pluralist Legal Dialogue?, 26 STANFORD ENVTL. L.J. & 43 STANFORD J. INT’L L. 181 (2007).
  • The Geography of Climate Change Litigation: Implications for Transnational Regulatory Governance, 83 WASH. U. L.Q. 1789 (2005).
  • Learning from Environmental Justice: A New Model for International Environmental Rights, 24 STANFORD ENVTL. L.J. 71 (2005).
  • Hari M. Osofsky & Janet Koven Levit, The Scale of Networks: Local Climate Change Coalitions, 8 CHICAGO J. INT’L L. 409 (2008).