Erin Ryan
Associate Professor of Law
Email: [[eryan]]
Office phone: (757) 221-3854
Office location: Room 245
Areas of Specialization
Alternative Dispute Resolution; Constitutional Law--Eminent Domain (Takings); Constitutional Law--Federalism; Energy Law; Environmental Law; Local Government Law; Natural Resources Law; Negotiation; Property Law; Property--Land Use and Zoning
Currently Teaching
Property
Representative Professional Activities and Achievements
Erin Ryan joined the faculty in 2004. She is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, where she was a Notes Editor on the Harvard Law Review and a Hewlett Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Research Project. A former law clerk to the Honorable James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Professor Ryan has published on topics in dispute resolution, environmental law, and federalism. Prior to her appointment, she practiced environmental, land use, and local government law in San Francisco at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger and taught at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Prior to law school, Ryan was a forest ranger at the Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area, east of Yosemite National Park. She received a Masters degree in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University and took her undergraduate degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard-Radcliffe College. Professor Ryan teaches natural resource law, property, and negotiation.
Scholarly Publications
Articles
- Federalism at the Cathedral: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability Rules in Tenth Amendment Infrastructure (forthcoming 2009) (critiquing the theoretical basis for, and practical implications of, the Court's creation in New York v. United States of an inalienability rule for Tenth Amendment entitlements).
- Essay, Reporting on Palin: Negotiations in Political Theater, Harv. Negot. L. Rev. Online, Oct. 2, 2008.
- Federalism and the Tug of War Within: Seeking Checks and Balance in the Interjurisdictional Gray Area, 66 Md. L. Rev. 503 (2007).
- New Orleans, the Chesapeake, and the Future of Environmental Assessment: Overcoming the Natural Resources Law of Unintended Consequences, 40 U. Rich. L. Rev. 981 (2006) (invited).
- Symposium Issue, Palazzolo, The Public Trust, and the Property Owner's Reasonable Expectations: Takings and the South Carolina Marsh Island Bridge Debate, 15 Southeastern Envtl. L.J. 121 (2006), reprinted in Environment Public Trust Doctrine (Amicus Books 2009).
- Essay, Building the Emotionally Learned Negotiator, 22 Negot. J. 209 (2006) (invited).
- The Discourse Beneath: Emotional Epistemology in Legal Deliberation and Negotiation, 10 Harv. Negot. L. Rev. 231 (2005).
- Zoning, Taking, & Dealing: The Problems and Promise of Bargaining in Land Use Planning, 7 Harv. Negot. L. Rev. 337 (2002), reprinted in Land Use and Planning Law Handbook (West Publ'g 2003).
- Public Trust & Distrust: Theoretical Implications of the Public Trust Doctrine for Natural Resource Management, 31 Envtl. L. 477 (2001).
Book Chapters
- How the New Federalism Failed Katrina Victims, in Law and Recovery after Disaster: Hurricane Katrina (Robin Malloy & John Lovett eds., Ashgate Press forthcoming 2008).
Other
- The American Way: A Swing State Epiphany, Chicago Tribune, Nov. 6, 2008, at c-43 (republished online by the Hampton Roads Partnership).
- Commentary: Vedanta Society of Southern Cal. v. California Quartet, 103 Cal. App. 4th 1200 (2002), 2003 Cal. Envtl. L. Rep. 16.
- Commentary: Environmental Defense Center v. EPA, 319 F.3d 398 (2003), 2003 Cal. Envtl. L. Rep. 122.
- New Housing Laws Favor Developers, Western City, Mar. 2003, at 14.
- Developments in the Law--The Paths of Civil Litigation: VI. ADR, the Judiciary, & Justice: Coming to Terms with the Alternatives, 113 Harv. L. Rev. 1851 (2000).
- The Once and Future Farm: Keeping Farms in Vermont, Conservation Matters, Vol. VI, No. 3 (Fall 1999), at 32.
- Worcester Report (The Better Homes Found. 1992).
