Daniel H. Cole R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 349 530 W. New York Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225 Phone: (317) 274-2340 Fax: (317) 278-3326 E-Mail: dancole@iupui.edu Web Page

Education

A.B., 1980, Occidental College
A.M., 1981, University of Chicago
J.D. (cum laude), 1986, Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark College
J.S.M., 1991, J.S.D., 1996, Stanford Law School

Courses

Environmental and natural resources law, law and economics, property

Bio

Daniel H. Cole is the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law and a member of the Affiliated Faculty of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at IU-Bloomington. He teaches and writes in the areas of Property, Natural Resources Law, Land Use, Environmental Protection, and Law & Economics. He has also written extensively about Poland and Polish law.

Since his arrival at Indiana University in 1991, Professor Cole has received numerous teaching awards, and he has published six books and more than forty law review articles and essays. His articles have been published in England, Italy, France, and the United States. One of his books, Instituting Environmental Protection: From Red to Green in Poland (Macmillan and St. Martin’s, 1998) , received the prestigious AAASS/Orbis Polish Book Prize in 1999. Another book, Pollution and Property: Comparing Ownership Institutions for Environmental Protection (Cambridge University Press 2002), will be published in Chinese translation in 2010. Professor Cole serves on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis and a law book series at Ashgate Press.

Professor Cole is a Life Member of Clare Hall (College for Advanced Study), Cambridge, and has served as a Visiting Scholar in the Faculties of Law and Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. In the Fall of 2001, Professor Cole was the John S. Lehmann Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Before moving to Indianapolis, Professor Cole was an Instructor-in-Law at Stanford Law School.

Professor Cole received his JD, cum laude , with Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law, from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College. He holds JSM (1991) and JSD (1996) degrees from Stanford University.

Publications

Books and Chapters

*La complexité du choix d’un régime d’appropriation en matière de protection environnementale, in Max Falque, ed., LES RESSOURCES FONCIÈRS: DROITS DE PROPRIÉTE, ÉCONOMIE ET ENVIRONNEMENT 75-88 (Bruxelles: Bruylant 2008).

NATURAL RESOURCES LAW (West 2006) (with Jan Laitos, Mary Wood, and Sandra Zellmer)

PRINCIPLES OF LAW AND ECONOMICS (Prentice-Hall 2005) (with Peter Z. Grossman). Second edition forthcoming Aspen Publishers, 2010-11.

Institutional and Technological Constraints on Environmental Instrument Choice: A Case Study of the US Clean Air Act, in Environmental policymaking 225-44 (M.T. Hatch, ed., 2005) (with Peter Z. Grossman)

The Regulatory Contract, P.Z. Grossman & D.H. Cole (eds), THE END OF A NATURAL MONOPOLY: DEREGULATION AND COMPETITION IN THE ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY 77-88 (JAI/Elsevier 2003)

Stranded Costs vs. Stranded Benefits in Utility Deregulation, P.Z. Grossman & D.H. Cole (eds), THE END OF A NATURAL MONOPOLY: DEREGULATION AND COMPETITION IN THE ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY 169-190 (JAI/Elsevier 2003) (with Reed Cearley)

Introduction, P.Z. Grossman & D.H. Cole (eds), THE END OF A NATURAL MONOPOLY: DEREGULATION AND COMPETITION IN THE ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY, 1-9 (JAI/Elsevier 2003) (with Peter Z. Grossman)

*Toward a Total-Cost Approach to Environmental Instrument Choice, T. Swanson (ed.), AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, 20 RES. LAW & ECON 225-243 (JAI Press, 2002) (with Peter Z. Grossman)

POLLUTION AND PROPERTY: COMPARING OWNERSHIP INSTITUTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Chinese translation forthcoming 2010 (Cambridge University Press and Peking University Press).

New Forms of Private Property: Property Rights in Environmental Goods, B. Bouckaert and G. DeGeest (eds), II ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND ECONOMICS 274-314 (Edward Elgar, 2000)

Poland's Environmental Transformation: An Introduction, J. Clark and D.H. Cole (eds), ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN TRANSITION: ECONOMIC, LEGAL, AND SOCIO-POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON POLAND 1-18 (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998) (with John Clark)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN TRANSITION: ECONOMIC, LEGAL, AND SOCIO-POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON POLAND (co-edited with John Clark) (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998)

INSTITUTING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: FROM RED TO GREEN IN POLAND (Basingstoke, U.K.: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1998)

Environmental Protection and Economic Growth: Lessons from Socialist Europe, R.P. Malloy and C. Braun (eds), LAW AND ECONOMICS: NEW AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES 295-329 (Peter Lang Pub., 1995)


Law Review and Journal Articles

*Institutions Matter! Why the Herder Problem Is Not a Prisoners' Dilemma, 66 Theory & Decision __-__ (2009) (with Peter Z. Grossman)

*Climate Change and Collective Action, 61 Current Legal Problems 229-264 (2009)

*Protecting Private Property with Constitutional Judicial Review: A Social Welfare Approach, 5 Rev. L.& Econ. 233-250 (2009) (with Peter Z. Grossman)

*The 'Stern Review' and Its Critics: Implications for the Theory and Practice of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 48 Nat. Res. J. 53-90 (2008). Italian translation in 4/2007 QA–Revista dell’Associazione Rossi-Doria 11-48(2007).

Climate Change, Adaptation, and Development, 26 UCLA J. Envtl L.& Policy 1-19 (2008).

Kelo's Legacy, 37 Envtl. L.Rep. 10540-10546 (2007)

*Political Institutions, Judicial Review, and Private Property: A Comparative Institutional Analysis, 17 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 141-182 (2007)

*Uncertainly, Insurance and the Learned Hand Formula, 5 Law,Probability & Risk 1-18 (2007)(with Peter Z. Grossman and Reed Cearley)

*'Best Practice' Standards for Regulatory Benefit-Cost Analysis, 23 Res. L.& Econ. 1-47 (2007)

Why Kelo is not Good News for Local Planners and Developers, 22 Ga. St. U.L.Rev. 803-856 (2006)

*Taking Coase Seriously: Neil Komesar on "Law's Limits," 28 L.& Soc. Inquiry 261-289 (2004)

*The Meaning of Property Rights: Law vs. Economics?, 78 LAND ECON. 317-330 (2002) (with Peter Z. Grossman)

*'An Unqualified Human Good': E.P. Thompson and the Rule of Law, 28(2) J.L. & SOC. 177-203 (2001)

Environmental Instrument Choice in a Second-Best World: A Comment on Professor Richards, 10 DUKE ENV L.& POL’Y F. 287-295 (2000)

The Importance of Being Comparative: The M. Dale Palmer Professorship Inaugural Lecture, 33 IND. L.REV. 921-936 (2000)

Clearing the Air: Four Propositions About Property Rights and Environmental Protection, 10 DUKE ENV L. & POL’Y F. 103-130 (1999)

From Renaissance Poland to Poland's Renaissance, 97(6) MICH. L.REV. 2062-2102 (Spring 1999)

When is Command-and-Control Efficient? Institutions, Technology, and the Comparative Efficiency of Alternative Regulatory Regimes for Environmental Protection, 1999 WISC L. REV. 887-938 (1999) (with Peter Z. Grossman)

*Poland's 1997 Constitution in Its Historical Context, 1998 SAINT LOUIS-WARSAW TRANSATLANTIC L.J. 1-43

Accounting for Sustainable Development, 8 FORDHAM ENVTL. L.J. 123-132 (1997)

Rhetoric, Reality, and the Law of Unfunded Federal Mandates, 8 STAN. L. & POL’Y REV. 203-225 (1997) (with Carol Comer)

An Outline History of Environmental Law and Administration in Poland, 18 HASTINGS INT’L & COMP. L. REV. 297-358 (1995)

Poland's Progress: Environmental Protection in a Period of Transition, 2 PARKER SCH. J.E. EUR. L. 279-319 (1995)

*Marxism and the Failure of Environmental Protection in Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R., 17 LEGAL STUD. F. 35-72 (1993)

Debt-Equity Conversions, Debt-for-Nature Swaps, and the Continuing World Debt Crisis, 30 COLUM. J. TRANSNAT’L L. 57-88 (1992)

Cleaning Up Kraków: Poland's Ecological Crisis and the Political Economy of International Environmental Assistance, 2 COLO. J. INT’L ENVTL. L. & POL’Y 205-245 (1991)

Liability Rules for Surface Water Drainage: A Simple Economic Analysis, 12 GEO. MASON UNIV. L.REV. 35-55 (1990)

United States v. Pend Oreille County P.U.D. No. 1: A Signal Conflict Between Equal Footing and Aboriginal Indian Title, 16 ENVTL. L. 163-174 (1986)

Reviving the Federal Power Act's Comprehensive Plan Requirement: A History of Neglect and Prospects for the Future, 16 ENVTL. L. 639-671 (1986)

*The Federal Power Act's Municipal Preference: The Merwin Dam Dispute and Legislative Proposals to Amend Federal Hydro-Licensing Procedures, 7 ENERGY L.J. 373-390 (1986)

Tribal Bedlands Claims Since Montana v. United States, 6 PUB. LAND L.REV. 119-140 (1985)


Essays and Reports

Keep goal in focus: Reduce emissions, Indianapolis Star, March 17, 2009 (with Gabriel Filippelli)

How Political Institutions Protect Private Property Rights, 3 Const. L.Comm. Newsletter 3-5 (Jan. 2007)

Kelo’s Impact (So Far), 3 Const. L.Comm. Newsletter 2-6 (Oct. 2006)

An Invisible Hand for Poland's Environment, The Wall Street Journal Europe, Sept. 27, 1995 at 10

Wishes and Realities of Mandate Limits, Indianapolis Star, Jan. 24, 1995 at A7

Getting in on the Biodiversity Action, Indianapolis Star, Oct. 12, 1994 at A9


Book Reviews

*"Property Rights and Natural Resources, by Richard Barnes. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009," 19(11) LAW AND POLITICS BOOK REVIEW 806-813 (2009)

*Richard Stroup, EC0-NOMICS: WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 4 OXFORD YEARBOOK EUR. ENVTL. L. 708-11 (2005)

Magnus Andersson, CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN POLAND'S ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; Halina Szejnwald Brown, David Angel, and Patrick G. Derr, EFFECTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: LEARNING FROM POLAND'S EXPERIENCE, 43(9) ENVT. 44-45 (2001)

Roger Manser's FAILED TRANSITIONS: THE EASTERN EUROPEAN ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT SINCE THE FALL OF COMMUNISM, 34(4) EUROPE-ASIA STUD. 713-14 (1995)

Crosscurrents of Economic Transformation: Andrzej Rychard's REFORMS, ADAPTATION AND BREAKTHROUGH, 17(1) POLISH STUD. CENTER NEWSLETTER 3-4 (Nov. 1994)


Other Publications

Dr. Milton Freewater, 76(1) The Owl 94-97 (Fall 1988) (short story)


Work in Progress

AN INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND ECONOMICS (with Peter Z. Grossman and Shi-Ling Hsu)

SELLING HOT AIR: EMISSIONS TRADING, OFFSETS, AND CLIMATE POLICY (forthcoming Cambridge University Press)

The 'Right to Pollute' in Economic Theory and Legal History