Directory of Scholars
LESLEY K. MCALLISTER
PH.D., J.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Primary Research Interests
- Alternative regulatory tools (eg voluntary codes and self-regulation)
- Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)
- Enforcement & compliance issues
Secondary Research Interests
- Biodiversity law
- Climate change law
- Energy law
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental politics
- International environmental law
- Natural resources management (forestry, mining, etc)
- Pollution & toxics control
- Science & risk in environmental regulation
- Regional environmental law (eg European Union)
Selected Publications
- MAKING LAW MATTER: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS IN BRAZIL, Stanford University Press, 2008.
- The Overallocation Problem in Cap-and-Trade: Moving Toward Stringency, 34 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (forthcoming 2009).
- On Environmental Enforcement and Compliance: A Reply to Professor Crawford’s Review of MAKING LAW MATTER: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS IN BRAZIL, 40 GEORGE WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2009).
- Sustainable Consumption Governance in the Amazon, 38 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 10873 (2008).
- Putting Persuasion Back in the Equation: Compliance in Cap and Trade Programs, 24 PACE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW 299 (2007).
- Beyond Playing ‘Banker’: The Role of the Regulatory Agency in Emissions Trading, 59 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 269 (2007).
- Judging GMOs: Judicial Application of the Precautionary Principle in Brazil, 32 ECOLOGY LAW QUARTERLY 149 (2005).
- "Litigating Climate Change at the Coal Mine", in William C.G. Burns & Hari M. Osofsky, eds., ADJUDICATING THE CLIMATE: SUBNATIONAL, NATIONAL, AND SUPRANATIONAL APPROACHES, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009.