Energy, Environmental & Natural Resources Systems Program

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS & HIGHLIGHTS

VANESSA CASADO PÉREZ is an associate professor at Texas A&M School of Law and a research associate professor in Texas A&M Department of Agricultural Economics. She writes and teaches in the areas of property, natural resources, and climate change. Her recent and forthcoming publications include: Pre-distribution, Northwestern Law Review (forthcoming 2022); Natural Transplants, New York University Law Review (forthcoming 2022); Reclaiming the Streets, 106 Iowa Law Review (2021); Liquid Business, 47 Florida State University Law Review 201 (2019); and the chapter Whose Water? Corporatization of a Common Good in Environmental Law, Disrupted (K. Hirokawa & J. Owley, eds., Environmental Law Institute 2020). She also published a short essay in the Michigan Journal of Law and Mobility, The Last Mile of Public Space, on the challenges posed by delivery robots and micro-mobility vehicles. Professor Casado is now working on a project with Yael Lifshitz (King’s College London) on internal legal transplants across different areas of natural resources law and on a new paper on sidewalk privatization. In November 2020, she was invited to present at the Iowa Law Review Symposium on the Future of Law and Transportation. From 2019 to 2021, she presented her work at, among others, faculty workshops at Oklahoma University and George Mason, the Annual Sabin Colloquium on Innovative Environmental Law scholarship at Columbia, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation – University of Utah Water Law WIP, the SCALE conference at Arizona State, and the Texas A&M Enviroschmooze.

GABRIEL ECKSTEIN professor of law, is the director of the Energy, Environmental & Natural Resources Systems Law Program at Texas A&M School of Law. He researches and writes in the areas of U.S. and international water law, as well as on other natural resource law and policy areas. He has two pieces forthcoming: an article on Sustainable Geo-Energy Systems of the Future (co-authored with Marcelo Sanchez, Texas A&M University College of Engineering, et.al.), Circular Economy and Sustainability (forthcoming 2022); and a book chapter (co-authored with Regina Buono, Baker Institute for Public Policy) on the Legal and Policy Issues Related to the Management of the Rio Grande River in Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture: Transitioning from Open to Regulated Access (Josselin Rouillard, et.al., Eds., Edward Elgar forthcoming 2022). His recent scholarship includes two peer-reviewed articles: The Status of the UN Watercourses Convention: Does it Still Hold Water?, 36(2-3) International Journal of Water Resources Development, 429 (2020), and Groundwater Management in the Borderlands of Mexico and Texas: The Beauty of the Unknown, the Negligence of the Present, and the Way Forward, 56(3) Water Resources Research 1 (2020) (with Dr. Rosario Sanchez, Texas Water Resources Institute). He also co-authored a book chapter on Water Diplomacy and Conflict Management on the Mexico-US Border, in Water Diplomacy and Conflict Management: The Role of River Basin Organizations (Schmeier & Kittikhoun Eds., Routledge 2020) (with M.E. Giner, U.S. Commissioner, International Boundary & Water Commission), as well as three other monographs and an essay. In addition, Professor Eckstein served as guest editor and author for two essay compilations: AJIL Unbound Symposium: Interstate Disputes Over Water Rights, American Journal of International Law Unbound Symposium (May 2021) (co-guest edited with Jim Salzman, UCLA School of Law), and authored the essay International Law for Transboundary Aquifers: A Challenge for Our Times in that compilation; and Conferring Legal Personality on the World’s Rivers: A Brief Intellectual Assessment, Water International, Vol. 44(6-7), pp. 804-829, and authored the essay Of Rivers, Deities, and Legal Persons - A New Approach to Managing Freshwater Resources? in that series. Further, he updated his chapters on: Texas in Waters and Water Rights 4th (Amy Kelley Ed., LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2018-2020); and Scientific, Legal, and Ethical Foundations for Texas Water Law in Essentials of Texas Water Resources 5th, Ch. 1: pp.5–35 (M. Sahs, ed., State Bar of Texas, 2020) (co-authored with Amy Hardberger, Texas Tech University School of Law). Since September 2019, Professor Eckstein has given seventeen invited presentations in four countries, served as a panelist on six conference discussion panels, and moderated four conference panels. In August 2021, Professor Eckstein was invited by Sai University in India to serve as a Visiting Fellow of their Water Law Initiative, and an Academic Advisor for the Sai University School of Law.

GUILLERMO GARCIA-SANCHEZ is an associate professor of law who focuses his research and teaching on the international legal architecture that regulates global energy, with an emphasis on investor-state dispute resolution and U.S.-Mexico energy relations. His recent publications include: When Drills and Pipelines Cross Indigenous Lands in the Americas, 51.4 Seton Hall Law Review (2021); The Footprint of the Chinese PetroDragon: The Future of Investment Law in Transboundary Resources, 94 Tulane Law Review 313 (2020); and a chapter on The Mexican petroleum license of 2013 in The Character of Petroleum Licenses (Edward Elgar, 2020). In 2020-2021 Dr. Garcia-Sanchez presented his research at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, the Center for U.S. and Mexican Law at the University of Houston Law Center North American Consortium on Legal Education Annual Conference, the American Society of International Law Research forum 2021 held at the University of Miami School of Law, the International Law Association American Branch International Law Weekend 2021, the Boston College Law School JILSA Summer 2021 Workshop, and the University of Colorado Law School Energy Scholars Workshop 2021. In recognition of his academic impact on energy law and the North American region, in 2021 Dr. Garcia Sanchez was invited to join the Aberdeen University Center for Energy Law as an Associate Member, and the Coppel-Intuit Center for Binational Institutions at the U.S.-Mexico Foundation as a Non-Resident Fellow. Additionally, he is a regular commentator in news outlets in Mexico and the U.S. on the state of U.S.-Mexico energy relations, global energy markets, and the impact of energy transition policies in the petroleum industry. 

FELIX MORMANN professor of law with a joint appointment in engineering, writes and teaches in the areas of climate, energy, and cleantech innovation, exploring environmental challenges through a business-oriented lens. Recent publications in peer-reviewed journals include Why the Divestment Movement is Missing the Mark, 10 Nature Climate Change 1067 (2020) [LINK], and Of Markets and Subsidies: Counterintuitive Policy Trends for Clean Energy in the European Union and the United States, 10 Transnational Environmental Law 321 (2021). Recent and forthcoming works in in law reviews include: The Case for Corporate Climate Ratings, 53 Arizona State Law Journal (2022 forthcoming) (with Milica Mormann, SMU Cox School of Business), Beyond Algorithms: Toward a Normative Theory of Automated Regulation, 62 Boston College Law Review 1 (2021), “Betting on Climate Policy: Using Prediction Markets to Address Global Warming,” 52 U.C. Davis Law Review 1429 (2019) (with Gary Lucas, Jr., Texas A&M University School of Law), and “Clean Energy Equity,” Utah Law Review 335 (2019). Professor Mormann presented his research at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, George Washington University School of Law, Arizona State University School of Law, the Dallas Bar Association, and the Environmental Works-in-Progress Symposium co-organized by the University of Colorado School of Law, UCLA School of Law, and UC Santa Barbara, among others. In spring 2020, Professor Mormann chaired Texas A&M University’s 11^th Annual Energy Law Symposium. In fall 2021, he co-organized Texas A&M University School of Law’s 3^rd Annual EnviroSchmooze.

TIMOTHY MULVANEY recently concluded his tenure as the law school’s associate dean for faculty research where he was tasked with accelerating, promoting, and recognizing faculty excellence in scholarly engagement, productivity, and impact. In his role as a professor of law, he continues to write and teach in the areas of property, land use, and environmental law. His forthcoming piece, Property’s Compulsory Terms, will appear in 116 Northwestern University Law Review (forthcoming 2022).  His recent publications include Takings Localism, 121 Columbia Law Review 215 (2021) (with Nestor Davidson, Fordham University School of Law); Walling Out, 93 Southern California Law Review 1 (2021); A World of Distrust, 120 Columbia Law Review Forum 153 (2020); and The State of Exactions, 61 William & Mary Law Review 169 (2019). Professor Mulvaney presented various stages of these projects at Boston University Law School, Cornell Law School, Harvard Law School, Maastricht University, Michigan Law School, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh. He has been appointed as a Texas A&M University Chancellor’s EDGES Fellow and as one of four inaugural Faculty Fellows of the Centre for Property Law at the University of Cambridge. He also recently assumed a joint appointment in the Marine and Coastal Environmental Science Department at Texas A&M-Galveston.

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