John C. Dernbach

Publications

• Sustainability-Competent Lawyering in the International Context
  93 UMKC L. REV. 857 (2025) · UMKC Law Review · 2025
• Presentations: Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment and Environmental Justice
  36 VILL. ENVTL. L.J. 261 (2025) · Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - ) · 2025
• Panel 2: Environmental Rights Amendment and Environmental Justice
  36 VILL. ENVTL. L.J. 287 (2025) · Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - ) · 2025
• The Lawyer's Duty of Competence in a Climate-Imperiled World
  92 UMKC L. REV. 859 (2024) · UMKC Law Review · 2024
• The Value of Constitutional Environmental Rights and Public Trusts
  41 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 153 (2024) · Pace Environmental Law Review · 2024
• The Role of Trust Law Principles in Defining Public Trust Duties for Natural Resources
  54 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 77 (2021) · University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform · 2021

• Applying the Pennsylvania Environmental Rights Amendment Meaningfully to Climate Disruption
  8 MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L. 49 (2018) · Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law · 2018
• Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization: Lessons from California and Germany
  82 BROOK. L. REV. 825 (2017) · Brooklyn Law Review · 2017
• Sustainable Development in Law Practice: A Lens for Addressing All Legal Problems
  95 DENV. L. REV. 123 (2017) · Denver Law Review · 2017
• Teaching Applied Sustainability: A Practicum Based on Drafting Ordinances
  4 TEX. A & M J. PROP. L. 83 (2017) · Texas A&M Journal of Property Law · 2017
• Asking the Right Questions About the Future of Shale Gas, 49 J. Marshall L. Rev. 377 (2015)
  49 UIC L. REV. (2015) · UIC Law Review · 2015
• Sustainability as a Means of Improving Environmental Justice
  19 J. ENVTL. & SUSTAIN. L. 1 (2012) · Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law · 2012
• Creating the Law of Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development
  28 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 614 (2011) · Pace Environmental Law Review · 2011

• The Ethical Responsibility to Reduce Energy Consumption
  37 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2009) · Hofstra Law Review · 2009
• Navigating the U.S. Transition to Sustainability: Matching National Governance Challenges with Appropriate Legal Tools
  44 TULSA L. REV. 93 (2008) · Tulsa Law Review · 2008
• Targets, Timetables, and Effective Implementing Mechanisms: Necessary Building Blocks for Sustainable Development
  6 SUSTAINABLE DEV. L. & POL'Y (2006) · Sustainable Development Law & Policy · 2006
• Achieving Sustainable Development: The Centrality and Multiple Facets of Integrated Decisionmaking
  10 IND. J. GLOBAL LEGAL STUD. (2003) · Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies · 2003
• Toward a National Sustainable Development Strategy
  10 BUFF. ENVTL. L.J. 69 (2002) · Buffalo Environmental Law Journal · 2002
• Targets, Timetables and Effective Implementing Mechanisms: Necessary Building Blocks for Sustainable Development
  27 WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 79 (2002) · William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review · 2002

• Taking the Pennsylvania Constitution Seriously When It Protects the Environment: Part I-An Interpretative Framework for Article I, Section 27
  103 DICK. L. REV. 693 (1999) · Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003) · 1999
• Taking the Pennsylvania Constitution Seriously When It Protects the Environment: Part II-Environmental Rights and Public Trust
  104 DICK. L. REV. 97 (1999) · Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003) · 1999
• Sustainable Development as a Framework for National Governance
  49 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 1 (1998) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 1998

• Pennsylvania's Implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act: An Assessment of How "Cooperative Federalism" Can Make State Regulatory Programs More Effective
  19 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 903 (1986) · University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform · 1986

• Legislative Notes: Metallic Mining and Reclamation in Michigan: Environmental Management as a Gentler Approach
  10 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 323 (1977) · University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform · 1977