Robert L. Glicksman
J.B. & Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law
Professor Glicksman is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on environmental, natural resources, and administrative law issues. A graduate of the Cornell Law School, his areas of expertise include environmental, natural resources, administrative, and property law. Before joining the George Washington University Law School faculty in 2009, Professor Glicksman taught at the University of Kansas School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 1982 and was named the holder of the Robert W. Wagstaff Distinguished Professor of Law in 1995. Professor Glicksman has practiced with law firms in DC and New Jersey before joining and while on leave from academia, focusing on environmental, energy, and administrative law issues. He has consulted on various environmental and natural resources law issues, including work for the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation in Montreal, Canada.
Professor Glicksman has extensive publications in his areas of expertise. He is co-author of two law school casebooks, Environmental Protection: Law and Policy (9th ed. Aspen Publishing) and Administrative Law: Agency Action in Legal Context (3d ed. Foundation Press), and two treatises published by Thomson Reuters, Public Natural Resources Law (2d ed.) and NEPA Law and Litigation (published annually). He has also co-authored three monographs: Reorganizing Government: A Functional and Dimensional Framework (NYU Press); Risk Regulation at Risk: A Pragmatic Approach (Stanford Univ. Press); and Pollution Limits and Polluters’ Efforts to Comply: The Role of Government Monitoring and Enforcement (Stanford Univ. Press). Glicksman’s other books include Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law: Decision Making in Environmental Law (Edward Elgar); Stay Ahead of the Pack, Your Comprehensive Guide to the Upper Level Curriculum (West Academic); Developing Professional Skills in Environmental Law (West Academic); Statutory Analysis in the Regulatory State (Foundation Press); and Modern Public Land Law in a Nutshell (5th ed. West Academic).
Professor Glicksman has written numerous book chapters and articles on a variety of environmental and natural resources law topics, concentrating recently on topics such as climate change, government organization and institutional design, judicial review of administrative decisionmaking, federalism issues in environmental law, the challenges facing the federal land management agencies, and environmental enforcement. His articles have been published in top U.S. law reviews and journals. Professor Glicksman has been a member scholar for the Center for Progressive Reform since 2002 and a member of the Center’s Board of Directors since 2008.