PUBLICATIONS

Articles, Books and Chapters

ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE

Racialized Landscapes and Climate Adaptation Economies, forthcoming Journal of Law and Political Economy (2024)
NPCC4: Advancing climate justice in climate adaptation strategies for New York City. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2024 Aug 19. (with Ana Baptista, Khai Hoan Nguyen, Jack Tchen, Marco Tedesco, Robin Leichenko)
A Multi-hazard Climate, Displacement and Social Vulnerability Score for New York City, Sustainability Journal (2023) (with Marco Tedesco, Ana Baptista, Casey Zuzak)
Local Initiatives in Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, American Bar Association, Michael B. Gerrard, Jody Freeman, and Michael Burger, eds., 3rd ed. (2023) (with Chiara Pappalardo)
Bringing Equity into Climate Change Adaptation in New York City in Urban Climate Justice: Theory, Praxis, and Resistance (eds. Jennifer L. Rice, Joshua Long, and Anthony Levenda) (UGA Press, 2023) (with Robin Leichenko and Khai Ngyuen)
Local Responses to Climate-Forced Displacement & Migration:Uniting Mayors and City Leaders as Global Champions, Report prepared for the Global Parliament of Mayors, June 2021 (with Kamal Amakrane)
Community-Based Assessments of Adaptation and Equity, New York City Panel on Climate Change, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1439:126-173 (2019) (with Robin Leichenko, Khai Ngyuen, et. al.)
Vulnerability, Equality and Environmental Justice in Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice (eds. Jayajit Chakraborty and Gordon Walker) (Routledge 2017)
Human Rights and Climate Change: Building Synergies for a Common Future in Climate Change Law, Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law series (eds. Daniel Farber and Marjan Peeters) (2016) (with Paolo Galizzi)
The Law of Environmental Justice: Theories and Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risks (2nd Edition) (co-editor with Michael B. Gerrard) (American Bar Association, 2008)
Environmental Justice in an Era of Devolved Collaboration, 26 Harvard Environmental Law Review 459 (2002)
From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (NYU Press, 2001) (with Luke Cole)
Meeting the Environmental Justice Challenge: Evolving Norms in Environmental Decision making, 30 Environmental Law Reporter 10992 (November 2000).

CO-CITIES AND URBAN COMMONS

Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions Toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities (MIT Press, 2022) (with Christian Iaione) Winner of 2023 Prose Award, Architecture and Urban Planning
Innovation and Equality: An Approach to Constructing a Community Governed Network Commons, Journal of Responsible Innovation (2022) (with Rider Foley and Olivier Sylvain)

The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations (Cambridge University Press, 2021) (edited with Chrystie Swiney)
Reimagining and Governing the Commons in an Unequal World: A Critical Engagement, Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, Volume 3, 100102 (2021) (with P. Kaswan, P. Mudaliar, and F. Clement)
From Smart Cities to Co-Cities: Emerging Legal and Policy Responses to Urban Vacancy, 47 Fordham Urban law Journal 909 (2020) (with Dan Wu)
Urban Commons in Oxford Bibliographies In Urban Studies (2020) Ed. Richardson Dilworth. New York: Oxford University Press (with Christian Iaione)
Ostrom in the City: Design Principles and Tools for the Urban Commons in Routledge Handbook Of The Study Of The Commons (eds. Hudson, Blake; Rosenbloom, J; Cole D.) (with Christian Iaione) (2019)
The City as a Commons, 34 Yale Law and Policy Review 281 (2016) (with Christian Iaione)
Collective Action and the Urban Commons, 87 Notre Dame Law Review 57 (2011)
Urban Informality as a Commons Dilemma, 40 U. Miami Inter-American L.Rev. 261 (2009)

LAND USE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Seeing Like a Chocolate City: Reimagining Detroit’s Future Through Its Past, 75 Stanford Law Review Online (2022-2023) (Book Review symposium)
Infrastructure-Sharing in Cities, 132 Yale L.J. Forum 440 (2022) (Post-Pandemic Cities Symposium)
Can Micropolitan Areas Bridge the Urban/Rural Divide?, 24 Journal of Theoretical Inquiries in the Law, forthcoming 2022 (with Clayton Gillette)
Who Governs? Public, Private, Community, Civic, and Knowledge Actors in Place Governance in Hyperlocal: Place Governance in a Fragmented World, Brookings Institute Press, Jennifer Vey and Nate Storring, eds. (2022)
Who Owns the City? Public Property and Land Stewardship in Powell on Real Property (2021)
The Limits of Mobility and the Persistence of Urban Inequality 127 Yale Law Journal Forum 480 (2017)
Breaking Up Payday: Anti-Agglomeration Zoning and Consumer Welfare, 75 Ohio State Law Journal 57 (2014)
The Mobility Case for Regionalism, 47 UC Davis Law Review 63 (2013) (with Nestor Davidson)
The Social Function of Property: A Comparative Perspective, 80 Fordham Law Review 1003 (2011)
Integrative Lawyering: Navigating the Political Economy of Urban Development, 95 California Law Review 1999 (2007) (with Brian Glick)
The City as an Ecological Space: Social Capital and Urban Land Use 82 Notre Dame Law Review 527 (2006)
From Harlem to Havana: Sustainable Urban Development, 16 Tulane Environmental Law Journal 783 (2003)

CITIES AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

The City as an Enabler of Urban Co-governance in Democracy and the Life of Cities, Research Report, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, May 2023 (eds. Samuel Kling, Florita Gunasekara, Steven Bosacker)
Local Responses to Climate-Forced Displacement & Migration: Uniting Mayors and City Leaders as Global Champions, Report prepared for the Global Parliament of Mayors and the British Council, June 2021 (with Kamal Amakrane)
City Networks and The Glocalization of Urban Governance in The Elgar Research Handbook of International Law and Cities (Janne Nijman and Helmut Aust, eds.) (2021) (with Chrystie Swiney)
City Power and Powerlessness on the Global Stage in Urban Futures: Alternative Models For Global Cities (Eva Garcia Chueca and Lorenzo Vidal, eds.) (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, 2019) (with Chrystie Swiney)
Cities Are Rising in Influence and Power on the Global Stage, CITYLAB, April 15, 2019 (with Chrystie Swiney)
The City and State Diplomacy Act in Congress Reflects a New World Order, CITYLAB, October 30, 2019 (with Chrystie Swiney)
Comparative Urban Governance for Lawyers, 42 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1 (2015) (with Fernanda Nicola)