Eric R. Dannenmaier Associate Professor of Law and Dean's Fellow Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 337 530 W. New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225 Phone: (317) 278-9603 Fax: (317) 278-3326 E-Mail: edan@iupui.edu

Education

B.A., 1981, Drury College (President's Scholar)
J.D., 1984, Boston University (Tauro Scholar)
LL.M., 2006, Columbia University (Kent Scholar)
M.St., 2007, Oxford University (Distinction)

Courses

Environmental Law, Water Law, International Environmental Law, International Law and Democracy, Property, Administrative Law

Bio

Prior to joining the faculty in 2007 Professor Dannenmaier was a Bretzfelder Fellow at Columbia Law School and, from 2001 to 2005, Director of Tulane Law School’s Institute for Environmental Law and Policy.  He served as a Legal Advisor for the Environment and Director of the Environmental Law Program of the US Agency for International Development from 1996 to 2000, working through the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) in Washington, DC and the University of Miami’s North-South Center.  He was also the Visiting Chair of Natural Resources Law at the University of Calgary in Canada in 2001.  Dannenmaier spent the early part of his career as a litigator in the Boston office of McDermott, Will & Emery and in the environmental practice group in the Washington, DC office of Bryan, Cave, LLP.

Professor Dannenmaier has served as an advisor to governments and international organizations in the reform of environment and natural resource laws and in the design of legal frameworks for public participation in development decision-making.  In 2004-05, for example, he served on the Expert Advisory Group to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) concerning Public Participation in International Fora under the Aarhus Convention.  He also served as a senior advisor to the Organization of American States (OAS) on the development of an Inter-American Strategy for Public Participation in Sustainable Development Decision-making, which was approved by the OAS General Assembly in 2000.  In 2005, he participated in the public review of citizen access mechanisms under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), producing a study commissioned by the NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation entitled “A Ten-Year Review of the Joint Public Advisory Commission of the North American Free Trade Agreement.”

Professor Dannenmaier has authored studies and policy papers on topics including the Implementation of Climate Change Commitments, Water Policy & Decentralization, Environmental Security, International Trade & the Environment, Human Rights & the Environment, and Environmental Democracy.  His principal research is focused on citizen access to decision-making processes under both national and international law, with an emphasis on decisions affecting international development and the environment.

Publications

Books and Chapters

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, A TRANSBOUNDARY AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, with Jonathan Nash (Aspen Press) (Forthcoming)

"Transboundary Governance Networks," in Burns & Heinen, eds., HANDBOOK ON GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES (Forthcoming)(World Scientific, 2009)


Law Review and Journal Articles

Managing Energy Demand through Water Doctrine: Bringing Reasonable Use Principles to the Power Grid, 50 NAT. RESOURCES J. __ (Forthcoming 2010)

Lawmaking on the Road to International Summits, 59 DEPAUL L. REV. __(Forthcoming 2009)

Beyond Indigenous Property Rights: Exploring the Emergence of a Distinctive Connection Doctrine, 86 WASH. U. L. REV. 53 (2008)

Executive Exclusion and the Cloistering of the Cheney Energy Task Force 16 N.Y.U. ENVTL. L.J. 329 (2008)

A European Commitment to Environmental Citizenship: Article 3.7 of the Aarhus Convention and Public Participation in International Forums, OXFORD Y.B. INT'L ENVTL. L. (2007)

Trade, Democracy, and the FTAA: Public Access to the Process of Constructing a Free Trade Area of the Americas, 27 FORDHAM INT’L L. J. 1066 (2004)

Johnston & Dannenmaier, Sustainable Use of Wildlife: The Role of Private Contracts as a Conservation Tool, 1 J. INT’L WILDLIFE L. & POL’Y 259 (1998)

Democracy in Development: Toward a Legal Framework for the Americas, 11 TULANE ENVTL L. J. 1 (1997)


Essays and Reports

Democratic Models for International Environmental Institutions: Challenges, Taxonomies, and Citizen Advisory Groups, (2008) UNITAR Yale Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy

The JPAC at Ten: A Ten-Year Review of the Joint Public Advisory Commission of the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation (2005)

Dannenmaier, Stanley-Jones, and Vaclavikova, "At the Frontlines of Democracy: Strengthening the Public Voice in State Decisions That Affect the Environment," The Access Initiative – US, World Resources Institute (2004)

Participación de Sociedad Civil en el ALCA, in HACIA UN DERECHO DE PARTICIPACIÓN EN LAS AMERICAS, at 67 (2003)

Co-Editor, Environmental Sustainability in Trade: Evaluating the Potential Impacts of the FTAA, the Case of Argentina, North-South Press (in Spanish) (September 2003)

Dannenmaier & Cohen, Achieving Meaningful Compliance with Global Climate Change Commitments, Pew Center on Global Climate Change (Fall 2000)

"Environmental Security in the Americas - Presentation to the Committee on Hemispheric Seccurity of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS)" (prepared for delivery by R.M. Meganck, Head, OAS Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment)

Environmental Security and Governance in the Americas, Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), Policy Paper No 01-4 (March 2001)

Meeting Sustainable Development Commitments in the Americas – Progress to Date, Leadership Council for Inter-American Summitry (white paper, December 2000)

"Legal and Institutional Mechanisms for Public Participation in Development Decision-Making in the Americas," Inter-American Strategy for Public Participation (ISP) Legal Component Final Report (Organization of American States, April 1999)

Editor, Practical Guide to Environmental Rights and Responsibilities in Nicaragua (Guia Practica sobre Derechos y Responsibilidades Ambientales en Nicaragua), Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Nicaragua (September 1998)

Editor, "Las Politicas de Produccion Mas Limpia en el Ecuador" (Policies for Clean Production in Ecuador) (USAID 1998)

In Re Silva Reservoir: Citizen Submission to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Concerning Death of Migratory Waterfowl at Silva Reservoir, Gunajuato, Mexico (Prepared and filed as Counsel to National Audubon Society, Grupo de los Cien, and Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental), Summary Published as Annex 1 to "CEC Secretariat Report on the Death of Migratory Birds at the Silva Reservoir" (1994-95)


Work in Progress

James Madison, the Press, and the Premise of Popular Sovereignty

Exclusionary Laws and Ambivalent Locals: Perspectives on Access to Town Meetings in Pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts