Victor B. Flatt

Publications

• Climate Change and Human Rights
  49 CAN.-U. S. L.J. 96 (2025) · Canada-United States Law Journal · 2025
• The New NEPA? – A Case Study in Congressional Frustration
  75 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 93 (2024) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2024
• Holding Polluters Accountable in Times of Climate and COVID Risk: The Problems with “Emergency” Enforcement Waivers
  12 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 1 (2021) · San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law · 2021
• Disclosing the Danger: State Attorney Ethics Rules Meet Climate Change
  2020 UTAH L. REV. (2020) · Utah Law Review · 2020

• Unsettled: How Climate Change Challenges a Foundation of Our Legal System, and Adapting the Legal State
  2016 BYU L. REV. 1397 (2016) · BYU Law Review · 2016
• Curtailment First: Why Climate Change and the Energy Industry Suggest a New Allocation Paradigm is Needed for Water Utilized in Hydraulic Fracturing
  48 U. RICH. L. REV. 829 (2014) · University of Richmond Law Review · 2014
• Frozen in Time: The Ossification of Environmental Statutory Change and the Theatre of the (Administrative) Absurd
  24 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 125 (2013) · Fordham Environmental Law Review · 2013
• Clearing Some Worldwide Haze: Daniel Bodansky's The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law
  10 SANTA CLARA J. INT'L L. 221 (2013) · Santa Clara Journal of International Law · 2013
• Too Big to Jail or Too Abstract (or Rich?) to Care
  72 MD. L. REV. 1345 (2013) · Maryland Law Review · 2013
• More than Winners and Losers: The Importance of Moving Climate and Environmental Policy Debate toward a More Transparent Process
  97 MINN. L. REV. HEADNOTES 26 (2013) · Minnesota Law Review Headnotes · 2013
• Adapting Laws For A Changing World: A Systemic Approach To Climate Change Adaptation
  64 FLA. L. REV. 269 (2012) · Florida Law Review · 2012
• “Offsetting” Crisis? - Climate Change Cap-and-Trade Need Not Contribute to Another Financial Meltdown
  39 PEPP. L. REV. (2012) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2012
• Adaptation, Legal Resiliency, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Managing Water Supply in a Climate-Altered World
  89 N. C. L. REV. 1499 (2011) · North Carolina Law Review · 2011

• Paving the Legal Path for Carbon Sequestration from Coal
  19 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. 211 (2009) · Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum · 2009
• Environmental Enforcement in Dire Straits: There is No Protection for Nothing and No Data for Free
  85 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 55 (2009) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2009
• The History of State Action in the Environmental Realm: A Presumption Against Preemption in Climate Change Law?
  1 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 63 (2009) · San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law · 2009
• Taking the Legislative Temperature: Which Federal Climate Change Legislative Proposal is “Best”? (Part II)
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2007
• Taking the Legislative Temperature: Which Federal Climate Change Legislative Proposal Is "Best"?
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2007
• The "Benefits" of Non-Delegation: Using the Non-Delegation Doctrine to Bring More Rigor to Benefit-Cost Analysis
  15 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 1087 (2007) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2007
• Gasping for Breath: The Administrative Flaws of Federal Hazardous Air Pollution Regulation and What We Can Learn from the States
  34 ECOLOGY L. Q. 107 (2007) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2007
• Let Us Drink Our Fill: The History of Water and Its Impact on Resource and Environmental Management
  18 YALE J. L. & HUMAN. 122 (2007) · Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 2007
• This Land Is Your Land (Our Right to the Environment)
  107 W. VA. L. REV. (2004) · West Virginia Law Review · 2004
• [H]e Should at His Peril Keep It There: How The Common Law Tells Us That Risk Based Corrective Action is Wrong
  76 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 341 (2001) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2001
• When Torts is More than a Series of Accidents: Epstein on Torts
  25 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 105 (2001) · Seattle University Law Review · 2001

• Saving the Lost Sheep: Bringing Environmental Values Back into the Fold with a New EPA Decisionmaking Paradigm
  74 WASH. L. REV. 1 (1999) · Washington Law Review · 1999
• Environmental Contraction for America: or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the EPA
  29 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 585 (1996) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1996
• Human Environment of the Mind: Correcting NEPA Implementation by Treating Environmental Philosophy and Environmental Risk Allocation as Environmental Values under NEPA
  46 UC L.J. 85 (1994) · UC Law Journal · 1994
• OSHA Regulation of Low-Exposure Carcinogens: A New Approach to Judicial Analysis of Scientific Evidence
  14 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 283 (1991) · Seattle University Law Review · 1991