Jamison E. Colburn
Joseph H. Goldstein Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law
Education:
J.S.D., Columbia University
LL.M., Harvard
J.D., Rutgers University
B.A., State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Professor Jamison Colburn, a noted scholar of environmental law and policy, joined Penn State Law faculty in 2008 to teach Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Property, and Administrative Law. Prior to teaching, Professor Colburn was an enforcement litigator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a collaborating researcher with the Project on Public Problem Solving at Columbia University, which studied the collaborative roles played by local and regional grassroots organizations.
Professor Colburn has published widely on public lands management, administrative law, wildlife habitat, and other environmental topics. He is presently working on a book, Localism's Ecology: Nature and the Suburban Nation, which maps a new approach to biodiversity conservation in America.
Professor Colburn is a member of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the Society for Conservation Biology, has served as a trustee of the Connecticut River Watershed Council, and is a past vice chair of the Separation of Powers Committee in the ABA Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.
Contact Information:
E-mail: jec38@law.psu.edu
Phone: (814) 865-8965
Principal Office: University Park
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Selected Works Profile
Selected Publications:
"Permits, Policy, and Planning" in Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on the Endangered Species Act Reform, Jonathan H. Adler, ed. 2011)
Agency Interpretations, 82 Temple L. Rev. 657 (2010).
Qualitative, Quantitative, and Integrative Conservation, 29 WASH. U. J.L. & POL’Y (2010).
Splitting the Atom of Property: Rights Experimentalism as Obligation to Future Generations, 77 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1411 (2009).
Remaking Habitat Protection as a Public Objective, in Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on ESA Reform (Jonathan H. Adler ed., 2009).
The Fire Next Time: Land Use Planning in the Wildland-Urban Interface, 28 J. Land Res. & Envtl. L. 223 (2008) (2007 Wallace Stegner Young Scholar Lecture).
Waters of the United States: Theory, Practice and Integrity at the Supreme Court, 33 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 183 (2007).
Bioregional Conservation May Mean Taking Habitat, 37 Envtl. L. 249 (2007).
Habitat and Humanity: Public Lands Law in the Age of Ecology, 39 Ariz. St. L.J.145 (2007).
Localism's Ecology: Protecting and Restoring Habitat in the Suburban Nation, 33 Ecology L.Q. 945 (2006).
