University of North Carolina Wilmington 

Robert Cutting, J.D.
Attorney/Associate Professor
Internship Coordinator
Phone: (910) 962-3140
Fax: (910) 962-7634

E-mail: cuttingr@uncw.edu   

Vita   


Courses:

    EVS 362 (BLA 362). Environmental Law
       
    EVS 462. Seminar in Environmental Law & Policy


    EVS 497. Practicum in Environmental Studies

    EVS 498. Internship in Environmental Studies

    EVS 570. Seminar in Environmental Law & Policy

    EVS 488 (BIO 488). Forensic Environmental Science


Research Projects:

* UNCW Survey of Counsel (link to results page only)
http://fire.cis.uncw.edu/EVS/surveyresults.php

* Conservation Council of North Carolina database/website research
http://www.conservationcouncilnc.org
 


Publications:

    1) Refereed Publications:

        A.     Published:
                                                       

              Refereed:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

2009     The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Global Warming Meets the Common Law.  This article focuses the legal and policy arguments of "Thinking Outside the Box" on current public nuisance cases filed by states' attorneys general and others.  Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, http://www.vjel.org/journal.php?vol=2008-2009  (Volume 9, Issue 4).  With Lawrence B. Cahoon

2009    Forensic Water Quality Investigations: Identifying Pollution Sources and Polluters, chapter in book with Lawrence B. Cahoon

2007    Property Rights: Generators versus Receptors; Athens Technical Research Institute: Proceedings of the Conference on Environment held August 3-5, 2006, Athens, Greece Robert H. Cutting, Lawrence B. Cahoon, and Jack C. Hall  This is a discussion of the property rights model discussed in earlier articles (below) inan international context through a discussion  keyed to a cross-disciplinary audience.                                                                   
 

2007     Requirements For A Workable Intern/Practicum Program In The Environmental Sciences: Experience for Careers and Grad School, Journal of Geoscience Education, with Jack C. Hall.  Many science programs find it difficult to offer practica and internships, even though it is widely agreed that they are desirable.  This article discusses the utility of an internship program and       offers suggestions on how it can be done with limited resources.

2006      Property Rights: Generators versus Receptors; Athens Technical Research Institute: Proceedings of the Conference on Environment held August 3-5, 2006, Athens, Greece.

2006    “Practica and Internships in Environmental Studies Curricula”, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, October 2006

2006     "Enforcement Data: A Tool for Pollution Control” , 36 Environmental Law Reporter 10060-10072 (January 2006). The project analyzed the utility of publicly available compliance and enforcement data on polluters and features an extensive electronic table of all enforcement data available nationwide, verified by a survey conducted of all state programs (former graduate student Ryan Leggette is third author).

2006     Forensic Environmental Science: Ecological Society of America, in Ecology 101, http://www.esapubs.org/bulletin/current/pdfweb87_2/ecol101_forensic.pdf  , (March 2006)

2005     Thinking Outside the Box, 21 Pace Environmental Law Review 1 (Spring 2005), a multi-disciplinary assessment of regulatory strategies, the “Data Deficit” of basic environmental information and a property rights perspective as an alternative world view

2006    Abstract, Proceedings of Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2006, Property Rights as a Key to Environmental Protection, Abstract #95491

2001    One Man’s Ceilin’ is Another Man’s Floor: Property Rights as the Double-Edged Sword”, 31 Environmental Law 819-900 (December 2001) (an 81-page treatise published as the lead article in the journal of the #1 rated environmental law school program at Lewis & Clark Law School)

1977    The Integration of Air Quality/Land Use Strategies: Legal Considerations", Office of Environmental Quality, County of Santa Barbara (1977): groundbreaking article which was used as a model for all counties in the State of California by the California Air Resources Board.

1974    "A Many-Layered Wonder: Non-Vehicular Air Pollution Control Law in California", 26 Hastings Law Journal 109 (1974) a detailed analysis of legal issues related to California’s air quality management framework just after passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970, co-authored with the Executive Office of the Air Resources Board.

    Non-Refereed Publications:

2005-2006
UNCW Department of Environmental Studies - Research Website

2004-2006
EPA Enforcement Data: http://fire.cis.uncw.edu/EVS/def_icis_db.php
State Enforcement Data: http://fire.cis.uncw.edu/EVS/full_state_enf.php

2000
Creator, Environmental Law Research Module, www.uncwil.edu/evs/module which is under continuous review/supplementation and which is used frequently for research and teaching

2005
Real Property Environmental Checklist http://fire.cis.uncw.edu/EVS/documents/EnviroPropDataForm10.4.05CHKLST.doc

2006
Survey of Counsel on Environmental Issues
http://fire.cis.uncw.edu/EVS/sectorsurvey.php

2006
Chronic Violators: Conservation Council of North Carolina compilation of NC
chronic violators of air, water and sedimentation laws correlated to legislative districts: supervised design and implementation http://www.conservationcouncilnc.org/waterGIS.php

1995
MacKain & Cutting: The Community Reentry Program:, Psychiatric
Rehabilitation Consultants; Co-directed and Co-produced video to accompany
Trainer’s Manual for The Community Reentry Program

1982
"White Collar Crime", course materials including student manuals for course

 

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Last updated 11/13/2006