Erin Ryan

Associate Professor of Law

Degrees

J.D., Harvard
M.A., Wesleyan University
B.A., Harvard-Radcliffe College

Areas of Specialization

Alternative Dispute Resolution; Constitutional Law--Eminent Domain/Takings; Constitutional Law--Federalism; Environmental Law; Local Government Law; Natural Resources Law; Negotiation; Property--Land Use and Zoning.

Teaching This Coming Year (2008-2009)

Negotiation and Settlement Advocacy, Property

Representative Professional Activities & 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.

Professor Ryan's publications

Articles

Federalism and the Tug of War Within: Seeking Checks and Balance in the Interjurisdictional Gray Area, 66 Md. L. Rev. 503 (2007).
Symposium Issue, 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).
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).
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

Literature Review, Building the Emotionally Learned Negotiator, 22 Negot. J. 209 (2006) (invited).
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).