David A. Dana

Publications

• Climate Exceptionalism in Court
  119 NW. U. L. REV. 1545 (2025) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2025
• "Background Principles" In the Law of Takings
  73 AM. U. L. REV. (2024) · American University Law Review · 2024
• Cooling Infrastructure, Cooling Security, and a Warming World
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2023
• An Early Intervention Approach to Reducing Evictions and Improving Child Welfare
  42 CHILDREN'S LEGAL RTS. J. 79 (2022) · Children's Legal Rights Journal · 2022
• Climate Change Adaptation as a Problem of Inequality and Possible Legal Reforms
  117 NW. U. L. REV. 71 (2022) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2022
• Regulating During Emergencies
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2021
• Fracking as a Test of the Demsetz Property Rights Thesis
  71 UC L.J. 845 (2020) · UC Law Journal · 2020
• Not Just a Procedural Case: The Substantive Implications of Knick for State Property Law and Federal Takings Doctrine
  47 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 591 (2020) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2020

• Soda Taxes as a Legal and Social Movement
  13 NW. J. L. & SOC. POL'Y 84 (2018) · Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy · 2018
• Judicial Review in an Age of Hyper-Polarization and Alternative Facts
  9 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 231 (2018) · San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law · 2018
• Escaping the Abdication Trap When Cooperative Federalism Fails: Legal Reform After Flint
  44 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 1329 (2017) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2017
• After Flint: Environmental Justice As Equal Protection
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2017
• After Flint: Environmental Justice as Equal Protection
  111 NW. U. L. REV. 879 (2017) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2017
• An Invisible Crisis in Plain Sight: The Emergence of the "Eviction Economy," Its Causes, and the Possibilities for Reform in Legal Regulation and Education
  115 MICH. L. REV. 935 (2017) · Michigan Law Review · 2017
• A "Switching Costs" Approach: EPA's Clean Power Plan as a Model for Allocating the Burden of Carbon Reductions Among Nations
  7 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 1 (2016) · San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law · 2016
• A Climate Change Lens on the Dormant Commerce Clause, Lifecycle GHG Taxes, and In-State RPSS Requirements
  5 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 69 (2014) · San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law · 2014
• Public, by Necessity
  13 SEATTLE J. FOR SOC. JUST. (2014) · Seattle Journal for Social Justice · 2014
• One Green America: Continuities and Discontinuities in Environmental Federalism in the United States
  24 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 103 (2013) · Fordham Environmental Law Review · 2013
• The Case for an Information-Forcing Regulatory Definition of “Nanomaterials”
  30 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 441 (2013) · Pace Environmental Law Review · 2013
• Why Mortgage "Formalities" Matter
  24 LOY. CONSUMER L. REV. 505 (2012) · Loyola Consumer Law Review · 2012
• A Simple Approach to Preventing the Next Housing Crisis-Why We Need ONe, What One Would Look Like, and Why Dodd-Frank Isn't It
  38 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 721 (2011) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2011
• The Foreclosure Crisis and the Antifragmentation Principle in State Property Law
  77 U. CHI. L. REV. (2010) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2010
• Three Obstacles to the Promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility by Means of the Alien Tort Claims Act: The Sosa Court's Incoherent Conception of the Law of Nations, the "Purposive" Action Requirement for Aiding and Abetting, and the State Action Requirement for Primary Liability
  21 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 79 (2010) · Fordham Environmental Law Review · 2010

• Why The Blight Distinction in Post-Kelo Reform Does Matter
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2007
• Public Interest and Private Lawyers: Toward a Normative Evaluation of Parens Patriae Litigation by Contigency Fee
  51 DEPAUL L. REV. 315 (2002) · DePaul Law Review · 2002
• Rethinking the Puzzle of Escalating Penalties for Repeat Offenders
  110 YALE L.J. 733 (2001) · Yale Law Journal · 2001

• Bargaining in the Shadow of Democracy
  148 U. PENN. L. REV. 473 (1999) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1999
• Land Use Regulation in an Age of Heightened Scrutiny
  75 N. C. L. REV. 1243 (1997) · North Carolina Law Review · 1997
• Overcoming the Political Tragedy of the Commons: Lessons Learned from the Reauthorization of the Magnuson Act
  24 ECOLOGY L. Q. 833 (1997) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 1997
• Natural Preservation and the Race to Develop
  143 U. PENN. L. REV. 655 (1995) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1995