Robert L. Glicksman
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Title(s)
J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law

Biographical Sketch
Professor Glicksman is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on environmental, natural resources, and administrative law issues. A graduate of the Cornell Law School, he teaches courses, does research, and makes presentations in the areas of environmental, natural resources, administrative, and property law. Before joining the 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 inaugural holder of the Robert W. Wagstaff Distinguished Professor of Law in 1995. Before joining academia, Professor Glicksman practiced with a firm in D.C., 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 the areas in which he teaches. He is a co-author of the environmental law casebook, Environmental Protection: Law and Policy (Aspen Publishers), the four-volume treatise, Public Natural Resources Law (Thomson/West), the monograph, Risk Regulation at Risk: A Pragmatic Approach (Stanford University Press), and Modern Public Land Law in a Nutshell (West Group). Professor Glicksman is also one of two co-authors of the forthcoming law school casebook, Administrative Law: Agency Action in Legal Context (forthcoming 2010, Foundation Press. He has written numerous book chapters and articles on a variety of environmental and natural resources law topics. His articles have been published in law reviews and journals that include the Pennsylvania Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Wake Forest Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, the Virginia Environmental Law Journal, and the Administrative Law Review.

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.



Education
B.A., Union College; M.A., Harvard University; J.D., Cornell University

Current Semester Courses
Regulatn/ToxicSubstancesRisk

Email
rglicksman@law.gwu.edu

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202.994.4641

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