Tracy Hester, Assistant Professor of Law

UH Law Center, Energy and Natural Resources Center

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• Areas of expertise

  • Environmental law compliance and enforcement
  • Climate change compliance and liability
  • Application of environmental law to emerging technology

• Awards

  • Not available.

• Publications

  • CLIMATE ENGINEERING AND THE LAW: REGULATION AND LIABILITY FOR SOLAR RADIATION MANAGEMENT AND CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL, co-editor with Prof. Michael Gerrard of Columbia University (Cambridge University Press). Publication in Fall 2017. In addition to editing complete volume, also authored chapters on climate engineering liability and policy recommendations.
  • The Law of Direct Air Capture of Greenhouse Gases, chapter in the upcoming report by the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project on legal challenges and strategies to achieve deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. The report will be published as a book by the Environmental Law Institute, and my chapter will be published as a stand-alone article in The Environmental Law Reporter.
  • Regulating Direct Air Capture and Environmental Intervention Law, invited article for publication in Fall 2017 in GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY (new peer reviewed law journal published by Cambridge University Press).
  • Green Statutory Interpretation and Environmental Courts and Tribunals, 29 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW MANAGEMENT 1 (2017) (invited manuscript; peer reviewed law journal). This article will also be included as a chapter in an upcoming book on environmental jurisprudence published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Designed for Distrust: Revitalizing NAFTA’s Environmental Submissions Process, 28 GEORGETOWN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW 29 (2015).
  • Restating Environmental Law, 39 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 1 (Spring 2015). Lead author on article with Profs. Robert Percival, Irma Russell, Victor Flatt and Joel Mintz. The Environmental Law Institute published a redacted version in 32 THE ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM 38 (Jan./Feb. 2015) as its lead article.
  • Report to the NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s Secretariat on The Legality of Scoping Submissions on Enforcement Matters, prepared at request through the North American Conference of Legal Educators, March 21, 2014.
  • A Matter of Scale: Regional Climate Engineering and the Shortfalls of Multinational Governance, 3 CARBON AND CLIMATE LAW REVIEW 168 (2013).
  • A New Front Blowing In: State Law and the Future of Climate Change Public Nuisance Litigation, 31 STANFORD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL 49 (2012).

  More publications available in CV below.

   

• Patents

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• Grants and Funded Research

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• Curriculum Vitae

  • Tracy Hester CV

• Contact information