Rebecca M. Bratspies

Publications

• The Human Rights Fulcrum: Using Environmental Rights as Leverage for Change
  38 PACE INT'L L. REV. 229 (2026) · Pace International Law Review · 2026
• Energy Justice and Renewable Rikers
  78 U. MIAMI L. REV. 347 (2024) · University of Miami Law Review · 2024
• Administering Environmental Justice: How New York’s Environmental Rights Amendment Could Transform Business as Usual
  41 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 100 (2024) · Pace Environmental Law Review · 2024
• What Makes It a Just Transition? A Case Study of Renewable Rikers
  40 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. (2023) · Pace Environmental Law Review · 2023
• Decarceration with Decarbonization: Renewable Rikers and the Transition to Clean Power
  13 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 1 (2022) · San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law · 2022
• "In Countless Ways and On an Unprecedented Scale": Reflections on the Stockholm Declaration at 50
  50 GA. J. INT'L & COMP. L. 754 (2022) · Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law · 2022
• “Underburdened” Communities
  110 CAL. L. REV. 1933 (2022) · California Law Review · 2022
• The Trump Administration Versus the Administrative State: A Response to Professor Buzbee's Deregulatory Splintering
  94 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 685 (2020) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2020

• Protecting the Environment in an Era of Federal Retreat: The View from New York City
  13 FIU L. REV. (2018) · FIU Law Review · 2018
• The Climate for Human Rights
  72 U. MIAMI L. REV. 308 (2018) · University of Miami Law Review · 2018
• Cryptocurrency and the Myth of the Trustless Transaction
  25 MICH. TECH. L. REV. 1 (2018) · Michigan Technology Law Review · 2018
• Do We Need a Human Right to a Healthy Environment?
  13 SANTA CLARA J. INT'L L. 31 (2015) · Santa Clara Journal of International Law · 2015
• Lionfish as a Metaphor for Governance in an Era of Climate Change
  58 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. (2014) · NYLS Law Review · 2014
• The Intersection of International Human Rights and Domestic Environmental Regulation
  38 GA. J. INT'L & COMP. L. 649 (2010) · Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law · 2010

• Rethinking Decisionmaking in International Environmental Law: A Process-Oriented Inquiry into Sustainable Development
  32 YALE J. INT'L L. 363 (2007) · Yale Journal of International Law · 2007
• Glowing in the Dark: How America's First Transgenic Animal Escaped Regulation
  6 MINN. J. L. SCI. & TECH. 457 (2005) · Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology · 2005
• Myths of Voluntary Compliance: Lessons from the StarLink Corn Fiasco
  27 WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 593 (2003) · William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review · 2003

• Splitting the Baby: Apportioning Environmental Liability Among Triggered Insurance Policies
  1999 BYU L. REV. 1215 (1999) · BYU Law Review · 1999