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Gaba, Jeffrey M.

Professor of Law

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Bio

Professor Gaba specializes in environmental law. In law school Professor Gaba was notes and comments editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law. Following law school, he was a law clerk to Chief Justice Edward Pringle of the Colorado Supreme Court. Prior to joining the faculty at SMU he was an attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund and with the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Professor Gaba has published numerous articles on environmental law and is the author of Environmental Law (West Black Letter Series) and co-author of the treatise The Law of Solid Waste, Pollution Prevention and Recycling. He teaches environmental law and related courses, property, and administrative law.

Primary Articles

NEW SOURCES, NEW GROWTH AND THE CLEAN WATER ACT, 55 Ala. L. Rev. 651-693 (2004).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW - SURVEY OF FIFTH CIRCUIT ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS, 2002-2003, 35 Texas Tech L. Rev. 831-850 (2004).

WE DO NOT HOLD THE EARTH IN TRUST, 33 Environmental Law Reporter 10325-10331 (Spring 2003).

TULK V. MOXHAY AND TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: LAND USE RESTRICTIONS UNDER THE TEXAS RISK REDUCTION PROGRAM, 55 SMU Law Review 179 (2002).

SOUTH CAMDEN AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: SUBSTANCE, PROCEDURE, AND POLITICS, 31 Environmental Law Reporter 11073 (September 2001).

REGULATION BY BOOTSTRAP: CONTINGENT MANAGEMENT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE UNDER THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT, 18 Yale Journal of Regulation 83 (2001).

ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND OUR MORAL RELATIONSHIP TO FUTURE GENERATIONS: FUTURE RIGHTS/PRESENT VIRTUE, 24 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 249 (1999).

 

Books

THE LAW OF SOLID WASTE, POLLUTION PREVENTION AND RECYCLING (West Group)(updated annually)

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (West Black Letter Series 3d Ed. 2005)

Gaba’s TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW STATUTES ANNOTATED (updated annually)

 

Other

WHEN “TAKINGS” HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE: THE ETHICAL CONCERNS OF IMPOSING THE COSTS OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION ON THE FEW TO BENEFIT THE MANY, Occasional Paper of the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility (2001).

DESIGNING A SYSTEM OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS: LESSONS FROM THE U.S. EXPERIENCE, published in the law journal of Meiji Gakiun Law School, Tokyo, Japan (1997).

 


Curriculum Vitae

 

Education

B.A., 1972, University of California, Santa Barbara
J.D., 1976, Columbia University
M.P.H., 1989, Harvard University