Faculty: Colin Crawford
Colin Crawford
Title(s):
Professor of Law, Dean of the School of Law
School(s):
Law
Campus(es):
San Francisco
Colin Crawford began as Dean at the Golden Gate University School of Law in June 2021.
Previously, he was Dean of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of
Louisville, following tenured positions at Tulane University, Georgia State University,
and Thomas Jefferson School of Law. As a scholar, Dean Crawford focuses on environmental,
property, urban development, and land-use law questions, especially in a comparative
and international context. He served as the Project Director for the Environmental
Law Capacity-Building Initiative in Central America and the Caribbean, funded by the
U.S. Agency for International Development. He has published books and articles in
English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages in which he is fluent. He has a law degree
from Harvard Law School and degrees in modern history from Cambridge and Columbia
universities. He was admitted to practice law in the State of New York.
Dean Crawford has lectured and published widely in the U.S. and abroad, concentrating
his work especially in Latin America. He is a faculty associate at an interdisciplinary
graduate program offered by four top universities in Rio de Janeiro and regularly
teaches comparative environmental law and policy courses at both the Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro and at the University of the Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia. He also
serves on the editorial boards of a Brazilian and a Colombian non-profit. He has held
the UC3M-Santander Chair of Excellence at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain
and visited Bucerius Law School, in Hamburg, Germany, as the Max Kade Visiting Professor.
He has lectured and taught in Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador,
France, Germany, Japan, Nicaragua, Panama, and South Korea and was a Fulbright scholar
in the Dominican Republic.
RESEARCH INTERESTS & AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
- Environmental Law
- Land Use Law & Policy
- Legal Theory
- Property Law
- Urban Law
EDUCATION
- JD, Harvard Law School
- MA, University of Cambridge
- BA, Columbia University
PROFESSIONAL & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Dean, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
- Robert C. Cudd Professor of Environmental Law at Tulane University Law School
- Professor, Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta, where he founded and co-directed the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Professor Crawford's SSRN page.
Books:
- Editor, Constitutionalism in the Americas (Edward Elgar Publishing 2018).
- Uproar at Dancing Rabbit Creek: Battling Over Race, Class, and the Environment (Addison-Wesley 1996).
Book Chapters:
- A Curious Doctrinal Marriage: the Social Function of Property and the Right to the City in Brazil, ch. 10 in Léon Duguit and the Social Obligation Norm of Property, A Translation and Global Exploration (Springer 2019).
- with Daniel Bonilla Maldonado, The Political Economy of Legal Knowledge in Action: Collaborative Projects in the Americas, ch. 6 in North-South University Research Partnerships in Latin America and the Caribbean (Palgrave MacMillan 2018).
- et al., Ecotourism Regulation and the Move to a Green Economy, ch. 6 in Tourism in the Green Economy (Routledge 2015).
- Author of entries on New Orleans, United States and Rio de Janeiro, and Brazil in: The Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability, vol. 8 in Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability Vol. 1-10: Knowledge to Transform Our Common Future (Berkshire 2012).
- with Brandon David Sousa, Greening New Orleans City Government after Katrina, ch. 20 in Greening Local Government: Legal Strategies for Promoting Sustainability, Efficiency, and Fiscal Savings (American Bar Association 2012).
- Other Civil Rights Titles, ch. 3 in The Law of Environmental Justice: Theories and Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risks, 2nd ed. (American Bar Association 2008).
- Should HIV Testing Be Required for All Pregnant Women? ch. 3 in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality (McGraw-Hill 1996).
Articles (Most recent):
- Access to Justice for Collective and Diffuse Rights: Theoretical Challenges and Opportunities
for Social Contract Theory, 27 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 59 (2020).
- It's Been a Long Time Coming: A Short Manifesto for Urgently Needed Change in Land Use Law & Regulation, 4 JCULP 28 (2020).
- Access to Justice: Theory and Practice from a Comparative Perspective, 27 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 1 (2020).
- Of Commonwealths and Our Commonwealth: An Introduction, 57 U. Louisville L. Rev. 459 (2019).
- Access to Justice for Four Billion: Urban and Environmental Options and Challenges, 26 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 340 (2018).
- A FUNÇÃO SOCIAL DA PROPRIEDADE E O DIREITO À CIDADE: TEORIA E PRÁTICA ATUAL, 2282 Texto Para Discussiao 2017.
- Density, Affordable Housing and Social Inclusion: Modest Proposal for Cape Town, 1 JCULP 81 (2017).
- A Comparative Consideration of Development Charges in Cape Town, 1 JCULP 8 (2017).
- ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS IN THE AMERICAS: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LEGAL KNOWLEDGE, 12 Revista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito da UFSM 648 (2-17).
- Social Function and Value Capture: Do They or Should They Have A Role to Play in Polish Land Development Regulation, 63 Studia Iuridica 97 (2016).
- Redefining and Analyzing Development and the Role and Rule of Law, 8 Law & Dev. Rev. 237 (2015).
- Order, Progress and Carioca Environments: A Preface to Study Space V ,44 U. Miami Inter-Am. L. Rev. 139 (2013).
- Environmental Benefits and the Notion of Positive Environmental Justice, 32 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 911 (2011).
- The Social Function of Property and the Human Capacity to Flourish, 80 Fordham L. Rev. 1089 (2011).
Additional works for Colin Crawford may be found here.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
- Member of Editorial Council, Panorama of Brazilian Law, since 2014.
- Member of Editorial Board, Diversitates, an inter-disciplinary online academic journal based at the Núcleo de Inclusão Social (Center for Social Inclusion), Institute for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, since 2009.
- Board Member, Latina & Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc., elected in 2007 for a three-year term.