William Rodgers

Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews

• William H. Rodgers, Jr. & Andrea K. Rodgers, Commentary: The Revival of Climate Change Science in U.S. Courts, 6 Wash. J. Envtl. L. & Pol’y 533-41 (2016).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Giving Voice to Rachel Carson: Putting Science into Environmental Law, 28 J. Land Use & Envtl. L.61-69 (2013).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Jason DeRosa & Sarah Reyneveld, Stranger Than Fiction: An “Inside” Look at Environmental Liability and Defense Strategy in the Deepwater Horizon Aftermath, 1 Wash. J. Envtl. L. & Pol’y 219-94 (2011).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Environmental Laws of the 1970s: They Looked Good on Paper, 12 Vt. J. Envtl. L. 1-42 (2011).
• William H. Rodgers Jr. & Anna T. Moritz, Worst Case and the Worst Example: An Agenda for Any Young Lawyer Who Wants to Save the World from Climate Chaos, 17 Southeastern Envtl. L.J. 295-335 (2009).
• William H. Rodgers, Punitive Decisionmaking, 7 U. St. Thomas L.J. 89-94 (2009).
• Anna T. Mortiz, Kassie R. Siegel, Bendan R. Cummings & William H. Rodgers, Jr., Biodiversity, Baking and Boiling, Endangered Species Act Turning Down the Heat, 44 Tulsa L. Rev. 205-35 (2008).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., et al., The Exxon Valdez Reopener: Natural Resources Damage Settlements and Roads Not Taken, 22 Alaska L. Rev. 135-211 (2005).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Judicial Regrets and the Case of the Cushman Dam, 35 Envtl L. 397-414 (2005).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Improving Laws, Declining World: The Tort of Contamination, 38 Val. U. L. Rev. 1249-61 (2004).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Treatment as Tribe, Treatment as State: The Penobscot Indians and the Clean Water Act, 55 Ala. L. Rev. 815-42 (2004).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Defeating Environmental Law: The Geology of Legal Advantage, 19 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 687-714 (2002).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Atlantic Salmon, Pacific Bound: Initiative, Defiance, Courage, and Indian Tribes in Environmental Law, 8 Ocean & Coastal L.J. 1-20 (2002).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Growth and Form: Indian Tribes, Terrorism, and the Durability of Environmental Law, 26 Vt. L. Rev. 865-79 (2002).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Miccosukee Indians and Environmental Law: A Confederacy of Hope, 31 Envtl. L.Rep. 10918-27 (2001).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Executive Orders and Presidential Commands: Presidents Riding to the Rescue of the Environment, 21 J. Land Resources & Envtl. L.13-24 (2001).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Most Creative Moments in the History of Environmental Law: "The Whats," 2000 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1-33 (2000).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Myth of the Win-Win: Misdiagnosis in the Business of Reassembling Nature, 42 Ariz. L. Rev. 297-306 (2000).
• William Rodgers, The Most Creative Moments in the History of Environmental Law: "The Who's," 39 Washburn L.J. 1-27 (1999).
• William Rodgers, What a Salmon Czar Might Hope for, 74 Wash. L. Rev. 511-18 (1999).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Defeating Environmental Law: The Geology of Legal Advantage, 15 Pace Envtl L. Rev. 1-38 (1997).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Sense of Justice and the Justice of Sense: Native Hawaiian Sovereignty and the Second "Trial of the Century," 71 Wash. L. Rev. 379-401 (1996).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Deception, Self-Deception, and Myth: Evaluating Long-Term Environmental Settlements, 29 U. Rich. L. Rev. 567-79 (1995).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Deception, Self-Deception, and Mythology: The Law of Salmon in the Pacific Northwest, 26 Pac. L.J. 821-29 (1995).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Seven Statutory Wonders of U.S. Environmental Law: Origins and Morphology, 27 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 1009-21 (1994), reprinted in An Environmental Law Anthology 82-90 (Robert L. Fischman et al. eds., Anderson 1996).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Where Environmental Law and Biology Meet: Of Pandas' Thumbs, Statutory Sleepers, and Effective Law, 65 U. Colo. L. Rev. 25-75 (1993).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., A Superfund Trivia Test: A Comment on the Complexity of Environmental Laws, 22 Envtl. L. 417-34 (1992).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Porcupine's Dilemma: Strategic and Psychological Uncertainty in the Face of Global Warming, 9 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 267-72 (1992).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., NEPA at Twenty: Mimicry and Recruitment in Environmental Law, 20 Envtl. L. 485-504 (1990).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Lesson of the Owl and the Crows: The Role of Deception in the Evolution of the Environmental Statutes, 4 J. Land Use & Envtl. L. 377-88 (1989).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Lesson of the Red Squirrel: Consensus and Betrayal in the Environmental Statutes, 5 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol'y 161-72 (1988).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Guerilla Decisionmaking: Judicial Review of Risk Assessments, 15 J. Hazardous Materials 205-17 (1987).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Washington Environmental Policy Act, 60 Wash. L. Rev. 33-68 (1985).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Natural Law of Administrative Law, 48 Mo. L. Rev. 101-11 (1983).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Bringing People Back: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Taking in Natural Resources Law, 10 Ecology L.Q. 205-52 (1982), reprinted in 14 Land Use & Envtl. L. Rev. 385-432 (1983).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Building Theories of Judicial Review in Natural Resources Law, 53 U. Colo. L. Rev. 213-28 (1982).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Judicial Review of Risk Assessments: The Role of Decision Theory in Unscrambling the Benzene Decision, 11 Envtl. L. 301-20 (1981), reprinted in 13 Land Use & Envtl. L. Rev. 629-48 (1982).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Benefits, Costs, and Risks: Oversight of Health and Environmental Decisionmaking, 4 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 191-226 (1980).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., A Hard Look at Vermont Yankee: Environmental Law under Close Scrutiny, 67 Geo. L.J. 699-727 (1979).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Comment on the Coal Lease Forfeiture Decision: The Hypothetical Case of United States v. Peabody Coal Co., 15 Nat. Resources J. 257-63 (1975).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Siting Power Plants in Washington State, 47 Wash. L. Rev. 9-33 (1972).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The National Industrial Pollution Control Council: Advise or Collude?, 13 B.C. Indus. & Com. L. Rev. 719-47 (1972).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Industrial Water Pollution and the Refuse Act: A Second Chance for Water Quality, 119 U. Pa. L. Rev. 761-822 (1971), reprinted in Mercury Pollution and Enforcement of the Refuse Act of 1899, Part 1: Hearing Before the H. Subcomm. on Conservation and Natural Resources of the H. Comm. on Government Operations, 92nd Cong. 567-629 (1971).
• William Rodgers, When Seattle Citizens Complain, 2 Urb. Law. 386-97 (1970).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Persistent Problem of the Persistent Pesticides: A Lesson in Environmental Law, 70 Colum. L. Rev. 567-611 (1970).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., A Model Bill on the Reporting of Campaign Contributions and Expenditures, 23 Vand. L. Rev. 293-318 (1970).

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Books or Treatises

• 1-5 William H. Rodgers, Jr. & Elizabeth Burleson, Environmental Law (2d ed. 2017-18 Supp Dec. 2018).
• William H. Rogers, Jr. & Elizabeth Burleson, 1 Environmental Law in Indian Country (Thomson/West Supp.Summer 2018). 650 pages
• William H. Rodgers, Jr. & Elizabeth Burleson, 3 Environmental Law: Pesticides and Toxic Substances (1986 & Supp. Winter 2017, Thomson Reuters). 230 pages.
• Climate Change: A Reader (William H. Rodgers Jr., Michael Robinson-Dorn, Jennifer K. Barcelos & Anna T. Moritz eds., Carolina Academic Press 2011). 1206 pages & CD-ROM.
• Joseph C. Dupris, Kathleen S. Hill & William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Si’lailo Way: Indians, Salmon, and Law on the Columbia River (Carolina Academic Press 2006). 425 pages.
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Environmental Law in Indian Country (Thomson West 2005 & Cum. Supps. 2014). 2 vols.
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Environmental Law (2d ed. West 1994). (Hornbook Series) 1157 pages & 1999 supp.
• Comm. on Scientific & Technical Criteria for Fed. Acquisition of Lands for Conservation, Setting Priorities for Land Conservation (William H. Rodgers, Jr., chair, National Academy Press 1993). 262 pages.
• William H. Rodgers, Jr. Amerika kanky?h? no rironteki shos? [Some Theoretical Aspects of the American Environmental Law] (Seibund? 1989). 217 pages.
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Cases and Materials on Energy and Natural Resources Law (2d ed. West 1983). (American Casebook Series) 877 pages.
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Cases and Materials on Energy and Natural Resources Law (West 1979). (American Casebook Series) 995 pages.
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Handbook on Environmental Law (West 1977). (Hornbook Series) 956 pages.

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Book Chapters

• William H. Rodgers Jr., Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Rodgers' Environmental Law (Excerpt)), in 2010 Gulf Coast Oil Disaster: Litigation and Liability 207-35 (West 2011).
• William H. Rodgers Jr., Oil Pollution (Rodgers' Environmental Law (Excerpt)), in 2010 Gulf Coast Oil Disaster: Litigation and Liability 181-205 (West 2011).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Dam Building and Removal on the Elwha: A Prototype of Adaptive Mismanagement and a Tribal Opportunity, in The Evolution of Natural Resources Law and Policy 282-301 (Lawrence J. MacDonnell & Sarah F. Bates eds., American Bar Association 2009).
• Dam Building and Removal on the Elwha: A Prototype of Adaptive Mismanagement and a Tribal Opportunity, to be published as a chapter in a book (in press).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The War of "Clever Hans" on the Common Law of Environmental Law, in Creative Common Law Strategies for Protecting the Environment: A Practical Guide to Heroic Litigation 77-103 (Clifford Rechtschaffen & Denise Antolini eds., Environmental Law Institute 2007).
• William H. Rodgers Jr., Indian Tribes, in 1The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise 161-75 (Dale D. Goble, J. Michael Scott & Frank W. Davis eds., Island Press 2006).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Law and Biology, in 2 New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 451-55 (Peter Newman ed., Macmillan Reference 1998).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Lesson of the Owl and the Crows, in The Neurotransmitter Revolution: Serotonin, Social Behavior, and the Law 205-14 (Roger D. Masters & Michael T. McGuire eds., Southern Illinois University Press 1994).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Intuition, Altruism, and Spite: Justice as Justification, in The Sense of Justice: Biological Foundations of Law 163-86 (Roger D. Masters & Margaret Gruter eds., Sage Publications 1992).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Fox and the Chickens: Mr. Justice Douglas and Environmental Law, in "He Shall Not Pass This Way Again": The Legacy of Justice William O. Douglas 215-25 (Stephen L. Wasby ed., University of Pittsburgh Press 1991).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., DDT: After the Sound and Fury, in Norman J. Landau & Paul D. Rheingold, The Environmental Law Handbook 329-31 (Friends of the Earth/Ballantine Books 1971).

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Book Reviews

• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Book Review, 108 Or. Hist. Q. 134 (2007) (reviewing Karl Boyd Brooks, Public Power, Private Dams: The Hell's Canyon High Dam Controversy (2006)).
• William Rodgers, Intuition, Altruism and Spite: Justice as Justification, 34 Am. Behav. Scientist 386 (1991).

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Professional Publications

• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Betty B. Fletcher: NEPA’s Angel and Chief Editor of the Hard Look, 40 Envtl. L. Rep. 10268-81 (2010).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., NEPA’s Insatiable Optimism, 39 Envtl. L. Rep. 10618-23 (2009).
• Dr. William Rodgers, Remarks on Natural Resource Damage Law and Policy--With a Special Emphasis on Indian Tribes at the 30th Annual Public Land Conference (Sept. 26, 2007), in 28 Pub. Land & Resources L. Rev. 24-37 (2007).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Tribal Government Roles in Environmental Federalism, Nat. Resources & Env't, Winter 2007, at 3-8.
• William H. Rodgers Jr., The Tenth U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Crazy Horse, J.) and Dissents Not Written--The Environmental Term of 2003-2004, 34 Envtl. L. Rep. 11033-40 (2004).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., A Constitutional Law of the Environment, in Blessings of Liberty: The Constitution and the Practice of Law 63-77 (American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education 1988).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Choosing A Theory of Liability for Transboundary Pollution, in Envtl. Law Section, Canadian Bar Ass'n, Common Boundary/Common Problems: The Environmental Consequences of Energy Production 103-06 (1982).
• William Rodgers, Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo, Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas., no. 19, 1981, at 2-3.
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., Nerve Gas to the Northwest and Beyond, 1 Envtl. Letters 111-40 (1971).

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News Media

• William H. Rodgers, Jr. & Rachael Paschal Osborn, Editorial, Strengthen Right to Healthy Environment, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 28, 2005, at B7.
• William Rodgers, WPPSS Ruling Put Risk Where It Belongs, in the Los Angeles Times (July 1983) [also reprinted in other newspapers].
• William Rodgers, The Back-Room Arm Twisters, The Nation, on advisory committees (June 8, 1974).
• Bill Rodgers, How to Make Washington Better Contest, Winning Entry, Washingtonian, co-author with Janet M. Rodgers (Oct. 1973).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., American Electric Power: The Visionary Octopus, The Nation, Jan. 8, 1973, at 51-52.
• William Rodgers, Boise Cascade: The One That Got Away, Washington Monthly, on recreational land development (Nov. 1972).
• William Rodgers, America the Beautiful, The New Republic (Jan. 1, 1972) (a short piece on billboards).
• William Rodgers, Ecology Denied: The Unmaking of a Majority, in the Washington Monthly (Feb. 1971), also reprinted in C. Peters & J. Rothchild, eds., Inside the System 247-56 (2d ed., Praeger, 1973).
• William H. Rodgers, Jr., How to Pollute: Tacoma's Tall Stack, The Nation, May 11, 1970, at 553-57.
• William Rodgers, The Washington DDT Hearings, Pacific Search (a natural science publication for the Pacific Northwest) (March 1970).

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Other Publications

• William Rodgers, Scales of Justice: Salmon, Indians, Property, and Evolutionary History on the Columbia River (2002) (unpublished manuscript).

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• Keynote, "Comments on the Slow Start of Climate Change Law for “Climate Refugees”", Climate-Migration, Local Conditions and Law: Food Security, Land Tenure and Gender, University of Washington School of Law and Washington Journal of Environmental Law and Policy (February 7, 2014)
• Speaker, "The Other History of U.S. Environmental Law", Sections on Environmental Law and North American Cooperation Joint Program: 40 Years of Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law – A Retrospective Look, Association of American Law Schools (January 6, 2013)
• Speaker, "The Si’lailo Way — Indians, Salmon, and the Law on the Columbia River", Native American Heritage Month, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10 (November 29, 2012)
• Speaker, The Clean Water Act at 40, Harvard Law School (October 11, 2012)
• Keynote, "Environmental Law, Environmental Justice, and Human Rights: The Obvious Synopsis", New Directions for Human Rights and the Environment: A Symposium Inspired by Svitlana Kravchenko, University of Oregon School of Law (September 28, 2012)
• Speaker, "The Fuel of Falsehoods, the Endurance of Lies: A True Story of Substantive NEPA", NEPA Symposium, National Association of Environmental Professionals and the Northwest Association of Environmental Professionals (May 21, 2012)
• Panelist, "Water", A Life of Contributions for All Times: Symposium in Honor of David H. Getches, University of Colorado Law School (April 27, 2012)
• Speaker, "Adequacy of Existing Environmental Law to Meet the Challenges of Sustainability", Sustainability and the Law Symposium: Making Sustainability Legal, Economically Viable, and Socially Just, Seattle University School of Law, Washington Lawyers for Sustainability, and the Albers School of Business and Economics (April 20, 2012)
• Moderator, "Perspectives on Siting a Coal Shipping Facility in Bellingham for Exporting Coal Transported There by Rail", Sustainability and the Law Symposium: Making Sustainability Legal, Economically Viable, and Socially Just, Seattle University School of Law, Washington Lawyers for Sustainability, and Albers School of Business and Economics (April 20, 2012)
• Speaker, "Environmental Law Distinguished Lecture: Giving “Voice” to Rachel Carson: Putting Science into Law", 25th Anniversary Symposium: The Future of Ocean and Coastal Law & Policy, Florida State University College of Law (March 14, 2012)
• Speaker, "Perspectives on Whether SEPA / NEPA Impede Job Creation", SEPA & NEPA, Law Seminars International (January 13, 2012)
• Keynote, "Water & the Creative Moments in the History of Environmental Law", Washington Water Law & the Public Trust, Center for Environmental Law & Policy (December 9, 2011)
• Panelist, "CERCLA and Federalism", CERCLA and the Future of Liability-Based Environmental Regulation, Southwestern Law School (November 11, 2011)
• Panelist, "Native American Use Rights on Forest Lands: Extending the Tribal Ecological Footprint", 34th Public Land Law Conference, Strengthening Our Roots: Forest Law & Policy in a Changing World, University of Montana School of Law (September 15, 2011)
• Speaker, "An Historical Perspective on Oil Spill Law Enforcement: From Exxon Valdez to Deepwater Horizon--Telling Tales of Environmental Disaster, Justice, and Recovery", SeaChange 2011, University of Washington (April 2, 2011)