Jonathan Nash

Professor of Law

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Areas of Expertise
Environmental Law, Property Law, Civil Procedure, Courts and Judges

Biography

Jonathan Nash specializes in environmental law, property law, civil procedure and the study of courts and judges. Before coming to Emory Law, Professor Nash served as the Robert C. Cudd Professor of Environmental Law at Tulane University. He teaches courses in environmental law, international environmental law, property, land use, civil procedure, and law and economics. Most recently, Professor Nash was a visiting professor at University of Chicago Law School, and he has served as a visiting professor at Hofstra University School of Law and a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School. Professor Nash is a prolific scholar, publishing in many top-ranked law journals.

Prior to teaching, Professor Nash was a law clerk to the Honorable Donald Stuart Russell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and to the Honorable Nina Gershon, then-Chief Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Nash also worked as an attorney in New York. Professor Nash received his LLM from Harvard Law School; his JD from New York University School of Law, graduating magna cum laude; and his bachelor’s degree in mathematics summa cum laude from Columbia University in New York.

Education: BA, 1988, Columbia College; JD, 1992, New York University School of Law; LLM, 1999, Harvard Law School.

Jonathan Nash

Publications

Academic Publications

The Uneasy Case for Transjurisdictional Adjudication, 94 VA. L. REV. (2008)

An Empirical Investigation into Appellate Structure and the Perceived Quality of Appellate Review, 61 VAND. L. REV. (2008) (with Rafael I. Pardo)

Standing and the Precautionary Principle, 108 COLUM. L. REV. 494 (2008) (essay)

Economic Efficiency versus Public Choice: The Case of Property Rights in Road Traffic Management, 49 B.C. L. REV. 673 (2008)

Grandfathering and Environmental Regulation: The Law and Economics of New Source Review, 102 NW. U. L. REV. 1677 (2007) (with Richard L. Revesz)

Trading Species: A New Direction for Habitat Trading Programs, 32 COLUM. J. ENVTL. L. 1 (2007) (to be reprinted in 1 ENVTL. L. & POL’Y REV. (2008))

Prejudging Judges, 106 COLUM. L. REV. 2168 (2006) (essay)

The Illusion of Devolution in Environmental Law, 38 URB. LAW. 1003 (2006) (essay)

Framing Effects and Regulatory Choice, 82 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 313 (2006)

Resuscitating Deference to Lower Federal Court Judges’ Interpretations of State Law, 77 S. CAL. L. REV. 975 (2004)

A Context-Sensitive Voting Protocol Paradigm for Multimember Courts, 56 STAN. L. REV. 75 (2003)

Examining the Power of Federal Courts to Certify Questions of State Law, 88 CORNELL L. REV. 1672 (2003)

Environmental Superliens and the Problem of Mortgage-Backed Securitization, 59 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 127 (2002)

Markets and Geography: Designing Marketable Permit Schemes to Control Local and Regional Pollutants, 28 ECOLOGY L.Q. 569 (2001) (with Richard L. Revesz)

Too Much Market? Conflict Between Tradable Pollution Allowances and the “Polluter Pays” Principle, 24 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 465 (2000)

Pendent Party Jurisdiction Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, 16 B.U. INT’L L.J. 71 (1998)

Book Chapters

Taxes and the Success of Non-Tax Market-Based Environmental Regulatory Regimes, in CRITICAL ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION 735 (Nathalie J. Chalifour et al. eds., 2008)

The Design of Marketable Permit Schemes to Control Local and Regional Pollutants, in AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: ISSUES IN INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN 331 (Timothy Swanson ed., 2002) (with Richard L. Revesz)

Book Review

Book Review of NANCY SCHERER, SCORING POINTS: POLITICIANS, ACTIVISTS, AND THE LOWER FEDERAL COURTS APPOINTMENT PROCESS (2005), PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS, vol. 4, no. 2, June 2006, at 397

Note

An Economic Approach to the Availability of Hazardous Waste Insurance, 1991 ANN. SURV. AM. L. 455

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