Faculty Publications - Clifford Rechtschaffen

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CLIFFORD RECHTSCHAFFEN
Professor of Law; Director, JD Environmental Law Program; and Co-Director, Environmental Law and Justice Clinic
A.B., Princeton University; J.D., Yale Law School

Publications

• With Joel A. Mintz & Robert Kuehn, Environmental Enforcement - Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 2007).
• CPR for the Environment: Breathing New Life into the Nation's Major Environmental Statues ch. Reforming the Emergency Planning Act and Community Right to Know Act (Center for Progressive Reform, 2007).
• With Denise Antolini, eds., Common Law Remedies to Protect the Environment: A Practical Guide to Heroic Litigation (Environmental Law Institute 2006). Forthcoming.
• A New Progressive Agenda for Public Health and the Environment (Carolina Academic Press 2005). Co-author.
• Reinventing Environmental Enforcement and the State/Federal Relationship (Environmental Law Institute 2003). With David L. Markell.
• Environmental Justice: Law, Policy and Regulation (Carolina Academic Press 2002). With Eileen Gauna.
• California Environmental Law & Land Use Practice ch. Enforcement of Hazardous Waste Management Requirements (Kenneth Manaster & Daniel Selmi, eds., 1995).

• Shining the Spotlight on European Union Environmental Compliance 24 Pace Environmental LR 161 (2007).
• The Continued Success of Proposition 65 in Reducing Toxic Exposures 35 Environmental Law Reporter 10850 (2005). With Patrick Williams.
• Promoting pragmatic risk regulation: is enforcement discretion the answer? 52 University of Kansas Law Review 1327 (2004).
• Enforcing the Clean Water Act in the Twenty-First Century: Harnessing the Power of the Public Spotlight, 55 University of Alabama Law Review 775 (2004).
• Advancing Environmental Justice Norms, 37 UC Davis Law Review 95 (2003). Reprinted in 35 Land Use and Environment Law Review (2004).
• The Evidence of Environmental Injustice, Environmental Law News 2003 (Environmental Law Section, California State Bar).
• Improving State Environmental Enforcement performance Through Enhanced Government Accountability and Other Strategies, 33 Environmental Law Reporter 10557 (2003). With Dave Markell.
• Independent Actions to Protect California's Environment: What A Difference an Attorney General Makes, 2002 Cal. Envtl. L.R. 157.
• It's Time for a Comprehensive State of the California Environment Report, 2001 Cal Envtl. L.R. 120.
• Competing Visions: EPA and the States Battle for the Future of Environmental Enforcement, 30 Envtl. L. Rep. 10803 (2000).
• How to Reduce Lead Exposures With One Simple Statute: The Experience of Proposition 65, 29 Envtl. L. Rep. 10581 (1999).
• Deterrence vs. Cooperation and the Evolving Theory of Environmental Enforcement, 71 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1182 (1998).
• The Lead Poisoning Challenge: An Approach for California and Other States, 21 Harvard Environmental Law Review 387 (1997).
• Fighting Back Against a Power Plant: Some Lessons From the Legal and Organizing Efforts of the Bayview Hunters Point Community, 3 Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 407 (1996).
• The Warning Game: Evaluating Warnings Under California's Proposition 65, 23 Ecology Law Quarterly 303 (1996).

• Toxic Disclosure Should be Expanded, Not Scaled Back," Center for American Progress, Dec. 18, 2006.
• Law and Public Policy Support Lockyer's Suit Against Auto Manufacturers for CO2 Emissions, (with Sean Hecht) California Progress Report, Dec. 11, 2006.
• Will the Environmentalists Find Their Voice? Once an environmental leader, U.S. now barely follows, SFGate.com (Jan. 4, 2006).
• Contributing author. Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Center for Progressive Regulation Report (October 2005).
• The Continued Success of Proposition 65 in Reducing Toxic Exposures, Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis, 35 ELR 10850 (Dec. 2005). Co-author.
• Rechtschaffen, et al., Environmental Justice, (Center For Progressive Regulation, White Paper #505, March 2005).
• Using California's Anti-Discrimination Laws to Remedy Environmental Injustice, Environmental Justice Committee Newsletter, ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities (Fall 2003).
• The Evidence of Environmental Injustice, 2003 Environmental Law News (Fall).
• Environment Factors into Proposition 54: Who We Are, Where We Live Affects Health of Most Minorities in State, Los Angeles Daily News (Sept. 10, 2003).
• Appearing on the Next California Ballot: An Initiative to Ban Information, Urban Habitat (Sept. 2003).
• Sidestepping Regulations On Environment, Bush Ignores Federalism," SFGate.com (Aug. 18, 2003).
• The Bush Record on the Environment: What a Difference Two Years Make, Class Action (Golden Gate University, Spring/Summer 2003).
• Why Race Still Matters, SFGate.com (March 28, 2002).
• Rechtschaffen, et al., A Survey of Federal Agency Responses to President Clinton's Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice, 31 Environmental Law Reporter 11, 133 (2001).
• Bush's Environmental Policy Relies on the Honor System, Daily Journal (Nov. 1, 2000).
• The Perilous State of Citizen Enforcement, Cal. Envtl. Rep. 235 (Oct. 1999).
• Birth of a Democracy, Daily Journal (June 20, 1994). With Karen Kramer.
• Proposition 65 Warnings: Do They Fulfill the Intent of the Law? Prop. 65 News (Nov. 1993).
• Romania's Rapid Rule of Law, San Francisco Recorder (Oct. 6, 1993). With Karen Kramer.