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Faculty ProfileKirsten H. EngelAssociate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of LawE-mail: Kirsten H. Engel Office Number: 269 Office Phone: (520) 621-5444 Office Fax: (520) 621-9140 Courses Taught: Property 
Environmental Law
Administrative Law
International Environmental Law
Economics Law and Environmental Workshop
Curriculum Vitae SSRN Published Papers |
Biographical Information |
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| Kirsten Engel is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona 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. Dean 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, Dean Engel 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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Education |
Northwestern University School of Law, J.D. (1986) American Association of University Women Fellow; Leopold Schepp Foundation Fellow | Brown University, B.A. (1983) magna cum laude |
Admitted to Practice |
Massachusetts | District of Columbia (inactive) | Illinois (inactive) |
Professional Work Experience |
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, James E. Rogers College of Law, 2012 - present | Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, 2005 - present | Senior Counsel, Public Protection Bureau, Massachusetts Office of Attorney General, Boston, Mass., 2001 - 2004 | Acting Chief, Environmental Protection Division, Massachusetts Office of Attorney General, Boston, Mass., 2000 - 2001 | Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Fall 1999 | Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt School of Law, Spring 1998 | Visiting Scholar, Boalt Hall, University of California School of Law, Berkeley, Spring 1996 | Associate Professor of Law, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, La., 1992 - 2000 | Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Md., Spring 1992 | Staff Attorney, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., 1990 - 1992 | Staff Attorney, Office of General Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 1987 - 1990 | Judicial Clerk, Hon. Myron H. Bright, Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Fargo, N.D., 1986 - 1987 |
Representative Publications |
| Navigating Climate Change Policy: The Opportunities of Federalism (2011) (co-editor, with Edella C. Schlager & Sally Rider). |
| Damages, Injunctions, and Climate Justice: A Reply to Jonathan Zasloff, 58 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse 189 (2011). http://uclalawreview.org/?p=1549 |
| Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach (2d ed., 2011) (co-author, with David M. Driesen & Robert W. Adler). |
| 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). |
| State Environmental Standard-Setting: Is There a "Race " and Is It "to-the-Bottom"?, 48 Hastings L.J. 271 (1997). |
| Complete List of Publications |
Presentations |
| Paper Presenter, Symposium: Environmental Law for a Clean Energy Future (Univ. San Diego School of Law, Apr. 15, 2011). |
| Moderator, Plenary Panel, Climate Change Responses by the Three Branches of Government (ABA Environment & Energy Resources Section, Spring Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, Mar. 17, 2011). |
| Paper Presenter, Symposium: The Law and Economics of Wildfire Protection (Program on Economics, Law & Environment, Univ. Ariz., Nov. 12, 2010) (co-sponsored by the Economics Law & Environment Program, Univ. Ariz. & Univ. Chicago School of Law). |
| Distinguished Environmental Lecturer for Fall 2010, Program in Land Use and Environmental Law (Florida State Univ. School of Law, Tallahassee, Fla., Sept. 22, 2010). |
| Paper Commentator, The Environment, Climate Change, and Land Policies (5th Annual Land Policy Conf. of the Lincoln Institute, Cambridge, Mass., May 24-25, 2010). |
| Participant, Searle Center on Constitutional Choices Roundtable (Northwestern Univ. School of Law, Apr. 16-17, 2009). |
| Speaker, A State Summit on Preemption (Center for Progressive Reform, Hall of States, Washington, D.C., Mar. 25, 2009). |
| Conference Moderator, Adaptation to Climate Change in the Desert Southwest: Impacts and Opportunities (Univ. Ariz., Jan. 22-23, 2009). |
Public Service |
Member, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano's Climate Change Advisory Group 2005 - present | Board of Directors, Tulance Environmental Law Clinic, Tulane Law School 2001 - present |
Institutional Service |
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Environment and Society, University of Arizona 2009 - present | Director, Environmental Law Program, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law 2008 - present | Editor, EDGE Book Series, University of Arizona Press 2008 - present | Faculty Advisor, Environmental Law Society, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law 2007 - present | Pace Environmental Moot Court Advisor, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law 2007 - present | Co-Director, Economics, Law and Environment Program, University of Arizona 2006 - present | Affiliated Faculty, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona |
Awards |
| Sumter Marks Award for Scholarship, Tulane Law School 2000 |
Updated: 04/23/2013