Kirsten H. Engel

Kirsten Engel is the Charles E. Ares Professor of Law at the James E. Rogers College of Law where she teaches and researches in the areas of environmental and administrative law. The emphasis of her more recent scholarship is the response of state and local governments to climate change in the United States and especially the constitutional and economic impediments these governments face seeking to mitigate climate change in the absence of comprehensive federal climate change legislation.

Engel is the co-author of an environmental law textbook, book chapters and articles. Her work appears in journals such as the UCLA Law Review Discourse, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Ecology Law Quarterly.

Prior to joining the law faculty at the University of Arizona, she held numerous permanent and temporary appointments within academia and in the public and nonprofit sectors, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Massachusetts' Attorney General's Office, and Harvard, Vanderbilt, and Tulane Law Schools.

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Representative Publications

• The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance: Fulfilling the Promise of the Earth Charter (forthcoming 2019) (co-editor, with Peter Burdon & Klaus Bosselmann).
• Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach (3d ed. 2016) (co-author, with David M. Driesen & Robert W. Adler).
• Navigating Climate Change Policy: The Opportunities of Federalism (2011) (co-editor, with Edella C. Schlager & Sally Rider).
• Arizona’s Groundwater Management Act at Forty: Tackling Unfinished Business, 10 Ariz. J. Envtl. L. & Pol'y 187 (2020) (co-author, with Esther Loiseleur & Elise Drilhon).
• Damages, Injunctions, and Climate Justice:  A Reply to Jonathan Zasloff, 58 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse 189 (2011).
• Courts and Climate Policy: Now and in the Future, in Greenhouse Governance:  Addressing American Climate Change Policy 229 (Barry G. Rabe ed., 2010).
• Micro-Motives for State and Local Climate Initiatives, 2 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 119 (2008) (co-author, with Barak Y. Orbach).
• Adaptive Federalism: The Case Against Reallocating Environmental Regulatory Authority, 92 Minn. L. Rev. 1796 (2008) (co-author, with David E. Adelman).
• Harmonizing Regulatory and Litigation Approaches to Climate Change Mitigation: Incorporating Tradable Emissions Offsets into Common Law Remedies, 155 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1563 (2007).
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