Hope Babcock

All Scholarship 2000 - Present

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

• Hope M. Babcock, “[This] I Know from My Grandfather”: The Battle for Admissibility of Indigenous Oral History as Proof of Tribal Land Claims, 37 Am. Indian L. Rev. 19-61 (2013).    [L]
• Hope M. Babcock, Putting a Price on Whales To Save Them: What Do Morals Have To Do with It?, 43 Envtl. L. 1-33 (2013).    [L] [W] [WWW]
• Hope M. Babcock, Why Changing Norms is a More Just Solution to the Failed International Regulatory Regime to Protect Whales than a Trading Program in Whale Shares, 32 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 3-85 (2013).    [L] [W]
• Hope M. Babcock, A Risky Business: Generation of Nuclear Power and Deepwater Drilling for Offshore Oil and Gas, 37 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 63-149 (2012).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
• Hope M. Babcock, Can Vermont Put the Nuclear Genie Back in the Bottle?: A Test of Congressional Preemptive Power, 39 Ecology L.Q. 691-772 (2012).    [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, Corporate Environmental Social Responsibility: Corporate "Greenwashing" or a Corporate Culture Game Changer?, 21 Fordham Envtl. L. Rev. 1-78 (2010).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, How Judicial Hostility Toward Environmental Claims and Intimidation Tactics by Lawyers Have Formed the Perfect Storm Against Environmental Clinics: What's the Big Deal About Students and Chickens Anyway?, 25 J. Envtl. L. & Litig. 249-301 (2010).    [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, The Stories We Tell, and Have Told, About Tribal Sovereignty: Legal Fictions at Their Most Pernicious, 55 Vill. L. Rev. 803-831 (2010).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, Assuming Personal Responsibility for Improving the Environment: Moving Toward a New Environmental Norm, 33 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 117-175 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, Civic Republicanism Provides Theoretical Support for Making Individuals More Environmentally Responsible, 23 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 515-536 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, Global Climate Change: A Civic Republican Moment for Achieving Broader Changes in Environmental Behavior, 26 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 1-18 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, Responsible Environmental Behavior, Energy Conservation, and Compact Fluorescent Bulbs: You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But Can You Make It Drink?, 37 Hofstra L. Rev. 943-974 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, The Problem with Particularized Injury: The Disjuncture Between Broad-Based Environmental Harm and Standing Jurisprudence, 25 J. Land Use & Envtl. L. 1-18 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, The Public Trust Doctrine: What a Tall Tale They Tell, 61 S.C. L. Rev. 393-414 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, Dual Regulation, Collaborative Management, or Layered Federalism: Can Cooperative Federalism Models from Other Laws Save Our Public Lands?, 14 Hastings W.-Nw. J. Envtl. L. & Pol'y 449-482 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, The National Environmental Policy Act in the Urban Environment: Oxymoron or a Useful Tool to Combat the Destruction of Neighborhoods and Urban Sprawl?, 23 J. Envtl. L. & Litig. 1-33 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, Administering the Clean Water Act: Do Regulators Have "Bigger Fish to Fry" When it Comes to Addressing the Practice of Chumming on the Chesapeake Bay?, 21 Tul. Envtl. L.J. 1-50 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, Chumming on the Chesapeake Bay and Complexity Theory: Why the Precautionary Principle, Not Cost-Benefit Analysis, Makes More Sense as a Regulatory Approach, 82 Wash. L. Rev. 505-532 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, Grotius, Ocean Fish Ranching, and the Public Trust Doctrine: Ride 'Em Charlie Tuna, 26 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 3-76 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, National Security and Environmental Laws: A Clear and Present Danger?, 25 Va. Envtl. L.J. 105-156 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, Reserved Indian Water Rights in Riparian Jurisdictions: Water, Water Everywhere, Perhaps Some Drops for Us, 91 Cornell L. Rev. 1203-1260 (2006).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, A Civic-Republican Vision of "Domestic Dependent Nations" in the Twenty-First Century: Tribal Sovereignty Re-Envisioned, Reinvigorated, and Re-Empowered, 2005 Utah L. Rev. 443-571.    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, The Effect of the United States Supreme Court's Eleventh Amendment Jurisprudence on Clean Water Act Citizen Suits: Muddied Waters, 83 Or. L. Rev. 47-106 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, The Effect of the Supreme Court's Eleventh Amendment Jurisprudence on Environmental Citizen Suits: Gotcha!, 10 Widener L. Rev. 205-217 (2003).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
• Hope M. Babcock, Should Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council Protect Where the Wild Things Are? Of Beavers, Bob-o-Links, and Other Things That Go Bump in the Night, 85 Iowa L. Rev. 849-905 (2000).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]

U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

• Brief of Environmental Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, No. 10-174 (U.S. Mar. 18, 2011).   
• Brief of Amici Curiae Dinah Bear, Robert Glicksman, Oliver Houck, Daniel Mandelker, Thomas McGarity, Robert Percival, Zygmunt Plater, Nicholas Robinson, and Gary Widman in Support of Respondents, Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475 (U.S. Apr. 5, 2010).    [W]
• Brief for American Lung Association, American Thoracic Society, American Association for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, National Association for the Medical Direction of Respitory Care, and American College of Chest Physicians as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioners, Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corporation, No. 05-848 (U.S. Jul. 21, 2006).    [W] [Gtown Law]
• Brief for American Public Health Association, American Lung Association and Physicians for Social Responsibility as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents, Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen, No. 03-358 (U.S. Mar. 12, 2004).    [W] [Gtown Law]
• Brief for Amici Curiae American Public Health Association, American Lung Association and Physicians, Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen, No. 03-358 (U.S. Mar. 12, 2004).    [W]