RECENT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consulting Professor in
Human Biology,
Faculty member, Univ. of San
Francisco Law School program in
Director of Environmental
Program, University of San Francisco Law School, Bali, Indonesia, summers 2000
and 2001; Cambodia, summer 2002.
Director,
Founder and President,
Pacific Environment, an international environmental NGO, Sausalito and San
Francisco, CA. April 1987 to April 1996.
Lecturer, Environmental
Science, Policy and Management, U.C. Berkeley, teaching courses in U.S.
environmental law and natural resources/energy law. January, 1988 to December 1994.
Adjunct Professor, Boalt
Hall School of Law (U.C. Berkeley) and Golden Gate Law School in San Francisco,
teaching seminars in international environmental law, Spring 1994 (Boalt Hall)
and Spring 1993 to summer 2003 (Golden Gate).
Executive Director, The
Pioneer Fund (a philanthropic foundation), Stanford, CA, 1980 to present.
Director, International
Comparative Study of Transboundary Air Pollution, Environmental Law Institute,
Washington, D.C. 1979 to 1980.
Author of American
government textbook on contract with Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977 to 1978.
ACADEMIC
BACKGROUND
Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University, 1970
M.A., Political Science, Stanford University, 1963
J.D., Stanford Law School, 1962
A.B., Politics, Princeton University, 1958
AFFILIATIONS
District of Columbia and
U.S. Supreme Court Bars
Committee on Ethics, Rights
and Freedoms, American Political Science Association (1977-1980, and 1990-93)
Board Member, Enviro-Legal
Defense Fund (India)
Co-Chair, Int'l
Environmental Law Subcommittee, State Bar of California (1988-1991).
Board of Trustees, Stanford
University (1974-78).
AWARDS
Associated
Students of Stanford University, Teaching Award, Sept. 2005.
Bernfield Award for Exceptional
Contributions to the Program in Human Biology, 2003
Visiting Professor,
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, teaching a seminar on Asian environmental
law, Summer 1998.
Visiting Professor, Marmara
University, Istanbul, teaching a seminar on international environmentnal law,
Summer 1997.
USIA lecturer in Nepal,
1992; India 1992 and 1996; Austria 1994.
Visiting Professor,
University of Bologna, teaching a seminar on European environmental law,
Summer, 1994.
Fulbright Professor to
India, teaching environmental law at the National Law School of India,
Bangalore, 1992.
Fulbright Senior Scholar
Award to lecture at various Australian universities on international and
comparative environmental law, 1987.
USIA lecture tour to India
and Sri Lanka, 1986.
USIA lecture tour to West
Germany, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, 1985.
Fulbright Professor to
India, teaching environmental law at the Universities of Cochin and Poona,
1983-84.
Swedish Bicentennial Fund
Award, to study the implementation of the ECE "Acid Rain" Convention,
1983.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Climate
Change Policy, Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2002 (with Stephen H. Schneider and John Niles).
Environmental Law and Policy in India: Cases, Materials
and Statutes, Second Edition, New Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001 (with S. Divan).
International Environmental Law, monograph for Global
Change Instruction Program, University Corp. for Atmospheric Research, Boulder,
CO. Commissioned by the National Science Foundation, July 1999. (with P. Kibel
and K. Yurchak).
Economic Approaches for a Green India, New Delhi: Allied Press,
April 1999. (with A.Pandian and R. Campbell).
CFCs and the Ozone Layer, Ambio
(Stockholm) special issue, Oct.-Nov. 1990 (editor).
Acid Rain in Europe and North America, Washington, DC: ELI Press,
1983 (with G. Wetstone).
American Government, New York: Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, 1979, 1982 (with J. Chapin).
Congress and the Public Trust, New York: Atheneum, 1970 (with J. Kirby).
Lawyers in the House of Commons, dissertation, 1970.
(Stanford, CA)
Articles:
“The Godavarman Case: The Supreme Court of India as Sole Arbiter of
Forests and Wildlife,” forthcoming (with E. Boenig, B. Dutta and V.
Upadhyay)
“Recent Court Cases Invoking the Alien Tort Claims Act of 1789,” forthcoming (with Zoe Chafe)
“Doe v. Unocal: Holding Corporations Liable for Human Rights Abuses on
Their Watch,” Chapman Law Review, symposium issue, spring,
2005 (with David Louk).
“Judicial Review of Environmental Cases: Comparing the U.S. and India,”
Env. Policy and Law, April, 2005 (with Videh
Upadhyay).
“Origin and Emergence of 20 Core International Environmental Norms,” Hastings
Int’l.
and Comp. L. Rev., symposium issue, fall, 2003.
“Can the Supreme Court of India
Manage India’s Environment?” Env. Policy and Law, April, 2003 (with Michael Jackson).
“The Delhi Pollution Case
and the Limits of Judicial Power,” Columbia Journal
Environmental Law, Spring 2003 (with Michael
Jackson).
“Foreign Environmental and Human Rights Lawsuits Against U.S.
Corporations in U.S. Courts,” Stanford
Journal of Environmental Law, June, 1999 (with Richard Campbell).
"Rio Plus Five: Environmental Protection and Free Trade in Latin
America," Georgetown Int’l. Envir. L. Rev., Spring 1997 (with R.
Campbell and D. O’Neill).
“Recent Developments on International Environmental Law and the Rights
of Children to a Clean Environment,” in Shaping
the Future By Law: Children, Environment
and Human Health, 1997 (with P. Kibel and S. Klinski).
India Country Report, Yearbook
of International Environmental Law, 1991 – 2004
.
"Progress on the Environmental Front: The Regulation of Industry
and Development in India," Hastings Int'l & Comp. Law Rev, Spring 1996 (with K.
Yurchak)
"The Need for International Timber Trade Reform," Review
of European Community and
International Environmental Law, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1995 (with P. Kibel)
The Right to a Healthful Environment under the Constitution of
India," Env. Pol. And Law, Vol. 25, No. 4, Sept. 1995
(with S. Rustomjee)
Greening the Blueprint: Environment and Development in Northeast Asia,@
Amicus Journal, Spring, 1995 (with P. Kibel and A. Weiss)
"Environmental Protection Under NAFTA," International Trade -
The Western Hemisphere Across the Pacific Basin, The Recorder, Special Supplement, Summer 1994. (with P.
Kibel, J. Walsh and S. Patrick)
"A Blanket Spread Too Thin:
Compensation for Bhopal's Victims," Economic and Political Weekly, Bombay, July 2, 1994. (with
P. Kibel)
"Legal and Political Repercussions in India from the Bhopal
Disaster," in S. Jasanoff, Ed., Learning
from Disaster: Lessons of Bhopal, 1993 (with A. Scott and S. Divan)
"The Tumen River Development Program: A Pandora's Box of
Environmental Exploitation," Christian Science Monitor, April 19, 1993. (with D. Gordon).
"India's Judiciary and the Environment," with Nandan Nelivigi and
Poojitha, M.G., Env. Policy and Law,
Vol. 23, No.2, March 1993.
"Basel After Rio. The International Movement of Hazardous
Wastes," Env. Policy and Law, Vol. 22
No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1992.
Reports on
"Energy" for the Yearbook
of International Environmental Law, Vol. II (1992), Vol. III (1993),
Vol. IV (1994).
"Siberia's Threatened Forests," (with A. Scott), Nature, (Jan. 23, 1992).
"Cutting Down Siberia," Washington Post, August 18, 1991, C3.
"Siberia, Environmentalism, and Problems of Environmental
Protection," (with A. Scott), Hastings
Int'l and Comp. Law Review, Vol. 14, No.4, 1991.
"Montreal Protocol: Bringing the Developing World on Board," (with A. Scott), Env. Pol. and Law, Vol. 20, No.
6, December 1990.
"Chlorofluorocarbons and the Ozone Layer: The Needs of Developing
Countries," (with R. Milligan), Ambio,
Vol. 19, No. 6-7, October 1990.
"The Bhopal Settlement," (with S. Divan), Env. Policy & Law, Vol. 19, No.5, October 1989.
"Bhopal Victims: Twisting Slowly in the Wind," (with S. Divan), Env. Policy & Law, Vol. 18,
No. 6, December, 1988.
"Writ Jurisdiction in India," (with S. Divan), Encology (India), vol.3, No.4,
September 1988.
"Bhopal, Transnational Corporations, and Hazardous
Technologies," Ambio, Vol, 17, No. 5, 1988.
"The Twists and Turns of the Bhopal Lawsuits," Env. Policy
& Law,
Vol. 18, No. 3, June 1988.
"Environmental Protection in Australia," (with P. Drekmeier), Encology (India), vol.2, No. 7,
1987.
"Some International Law Aspects of the Bhopal Disaster," (with Y.K. Tyagi), Soc. Sci & Med., Vol. 27 No.
10, 1988.
"Policies and Institutions" chapter, World Resources 1987, World Resources Institute
(Washington, D.C.), 1987.
"Compensating Victims of Environmental Disasters: Some American
Models,"
in R. Khan, et al., eds., Law,
Science and Environment, 1987.
"India's Pollution Control System," (with C.M. Abraham), Environmental Awareness (India),
Vol. 9, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1986).
"The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster and Transboundary Pollution," Acid News (Sweden), June, 1986.
"An Evaluation of Pollution Control Legislation in India," (with C. M. Abraham), Columbia J. Env. Law. Vol. 11,
No. 1, 1986.
"The Acid Rain Controversy in Europe and North America: A
Political Analysis," Ambio, Vol.15, No.1, 1986.
A revised and updated version of this article later appeared in J.
Carroll, ed., International
Environmental Diplomacy, 1988.
"The Transboundary Pollution Reciprocal Access Act," Env.
Policy & Law, vol.15, No. 3-4, 1985.
Columns printed in The Statesman (Delhi and
Calcutta): "How Union Carbide Can
Help Bhopal Victims, November, 1985; "The
Bhopal lawsuits: A Challenge for India," June, 1986; "Bhopal Victims: Twisting Slowly in the
Wind," September, 1988.
"The Condition of Native American Tribal People in the United
States," Cochin Law Review, June, 1984.
"Transboundary air Pollution: The Search for an International
Response," (with G. Wetstone), Harvard
Envir. Law R. Winter, 1983-84.
"The Control of Air Pollution and Acid Rain in the United
Kingdom," Cochin Law Review, October, 1983.
"Transboundary Air Pollution in Europe: A Survey of National
Response," (with G. Wetstone), Columbia
J. Envir. Law, vol.9, No.1, 1983.
"Transboundary Air Pollution Between Canada and the United
States,"
(with G. Wetstone), UCLA Pacific
Basin L.J., Fall, 1982.
"The Control of Sulfur Pollution in
the European Economic Community," Ambio, December, 1982.
"Limestone: One Answer for Acid Lakes," Christian Science Monitor, May 12, 1982.
"The Politics and Law of Transboundary Air Pollution," Stanford
Lawyer,
Fall/Winter, 1981.
"The E.C.E. Convention," Zeitschrift fur Unweltpolitik, Vol. 4, 1981.
"The E.C.E. Convention of 1979 on Long Range Transboundary Air
Pollution," Amer. J. Int'l Law, October, 1981.
"Economic Approaches to Air Pollution Control," Environment, October, 1981.
"The European Conference on Acid Rain," Env. Pol. &
Law,
Sept. 1981.
"The Politics and Law of Transboundary Air Pollution," Ved P. Nanda, Ed., in World Climate Change: The Role of
International Law and Institutions, Westview Press, 1981.
"Acid Rain, A Small Step forward," Christian Science
Monitor,
June 10, 1981.
"The International Law and Politics of Acid Rain," Denver
J. Int'l Law & Policy Spring, 1981.
"Transboundary Air Pollution: The European Experience," delivered at the
Canada-United States law Institute, cleveland, Ohio, March 27, 1981
(subsequently published in The
Transnational Implications of Acid Rain, Case Western Reserve
University Press, 1981).
"Transboundary Air Pollution: International law, Agreements and
Other Remedies," delivered at a joint conference of the American and Canadian Bar
Associations, Banff, Alberta, March 1981 (subsequently published in Common Boundaries, Common Problems, American
Bar Association, 1981).
"Acid Rain: Victims Complain,
Polluters Stall," Christian Science Monitor, December 10, 1980.
"International Forecast: More Acid Rain," Science '80, July-August 1980.
"The Problems of Transboundary Pollution," Environment, June, 1980.
"Acid Rain," Transatlantic Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1980.
"The Health of Presidents," Wall Street Journal, March 28, 1980, p.20.
"International Perspectives on the Long-Range Transport of Sulfur
Oxides,"
in Air Pollution Control: National
and International Perspectives, American Bar Association, 1980.
"The Future of Environmental Defense," Amer. Bar Assn. J., March, 1975 (with F.R.
Anderson).