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DAN COLE

JD, JSM, JSD
PROFESSOR OF LAW

email dancole@indiana.edu

Primary Research Interests

  • Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)
  • Enforcement & compliance issues
  • Municipal & land use planning
  • Natural resources management (forestry, mining, etc)
  • Pollution & toxics control

Secondary Research Interests

  • Alternative regulatory tools (eg voluntary codes and self-regulation)
  • Climate change law
  • Energy law
  • International environmental law
  • Private law (nuisance, negligence etc)
  • Science & risk in environmental regulation

Selected Publications

  • Pollution and Property: Comparing Ownership Institutions for Environmental Protection, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002.
  • Instituting Environmental Protection: From Red to Green in Poland, MacMillans & St. Martin's, 1998.
  • The Stern Review and Its Critics: Implications for the Theory and Practice of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 48 Nat. Resources J. 53- 90, 2008.
  • When is Command-and-Control Efficient? Institutions, Technology, and the Comparative Efficiency of Alternative Regulatory Regimes for Environmental Protection (with Peter Z. Grossman), 1999 Wis. L. Rev. 887-938, 1999.

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Environmental Law
  • Climate Law & Policy
  • Property Law
  • Land Use
  • Law Economics
  • Institutional Analysis
  • Political-Economy