Daniel Bodansky

Daniel Bodansky

  • Senior Sustainability Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability
  • Lincoln Professor of Law, Ethics, and Sustainability, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
PO Box 877906
Tempe, AZ 85287

Phone: 480-727-8577
Email: Daniel.Bodansky@asu.edu



Biography

Bodansky is an expert on international environmental law. He has worked extensively on the international climate change negotiations, including as a senior negotiator in the US Department of State and as a consultant to the UN climate change secretariat and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. He co-edited the Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law, and is the author of the Art and Craft of International Environmental Law, which was awarded the 2011 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award from the International Studies Association as the best book published that year in the area of international environmental politics. He will co-teach a course on global sustainability governance in spring 2012.

Selected Publications

The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law. Harvard University Press, forthcoming fall 2009.

Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199269709. Co-editor with Jutta Brunnee and Ellen Hey; author of chapter on "Legitimacy". Oxford University Press, 2007.

International Law in Black and White, 34 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 285 (2006) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=887767.

Legal Regulation of the Effects of Military Activity on the Environment. Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2003.

The Legitimacy of International Governance: A Coming Challenge for International Environmental Law? 93 Am. J. Int'l L. 596 (1999) http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/ajil93&id=610&size=2&collection=journals&set_as_cursor=2

Customary (and Not So Customary) International Environmental Law, 3 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 105 (1995) http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/ijgls3&id=111&size=2&collection=journals&set_as_cursor=0.
The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change: A Commentary, 18 Yale J. Int'l L. 451 http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/yjil18&id=459&size=2&collection=journals&set_as_cursor=3 (1993).

Education

  • J.D., Yale University, 1984
  • M.Phil., Cambridge University, 1981
  • A.B., Harvard University, 1979