Alejandro Camacho

Associate Professor of Law

Office Number: 328 Law School
Telephone: 574.631.2727
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: Alejandro.E.Camacho.13@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Gerri Lehmkuhl

Alejandro Camacho is an associate professor of law, teaching courses on environmental law, property and regulatory innovation. Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty in 2005, Professor Camacho served as a Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Camacho’s research primarily focuses on regulatory innovation in environmental, land use, and local government law. His article, “Mustering the Missing Voices: A Collaborative Model for Fostering Equality, Community Involvement and Adaptive Planning in Land Use Decisions,” was recently named as one of the ten best environmental or land use law articles of the year by a national peer review committee.

Prior to entering full-time law teaching, Professor Camacho was an associate in the Environment, Land, and Resources Department of Latham & Watkins, in Los Angeles, California. In 1995, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a bachelor’s degree in Criminology, Law, and Society, both summa cum laude, from the University of California, Irvine. In 1998, Professor Camacho received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as submissions editor and article editor for the Harvard Environmental Law Review. He also received an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2005.

Professor Camacho is currently the Chair-Elect of the Section on Natural Resources of the American Association of Law Schools, and a Member Scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform. He is a frequent lecturer and presenter, most recently at the Georgetown University Law Center, Northwestern University School of Law, and University of Illinois College of Law.

LAW60906, Property

LAW70349, Environmental Law

LAW73326, Regulatory Reform and Innovation

Faculty Expertise Areas

• Environmental law
• Land use planning and regulation
• Property law
• Regulatory reform

Articles

A Quantum Leap: Adapting Ecosystem Governance to Climate Change (work in progress).

Learning from Glen Canyon Dam: The Challenges of Adaptive and Collaborative Ecosystem Management, 8 Nev. L. J. __ (invited) (forthcoming 2008).

Can Regulation Evolve? Lessons from a Study in Maladaptive Management, 55 UCLA L. Rev. 293 (2007).

Mustering the Missing Voices: A Collaborative Model for Fostering Equality, Community Involvement and Adaptive Planning in Land Use Decisions, Installment Two, 24 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 269 (2005) (reprinted as Ch. 14 in Zoning and Planning Law Handbook 945-1017 (Patricia Salkin ed., Thomson/West 2006)).

Mustering the Missing Voices: A Collaborative Model for Fostering Equality, Community Involvement and Adaptive Planning in Land Use Decisions, Installment One, 24 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 3 (2005) (reprinted as Ch. 13 in Zoning and Planning Law Handbook 863-943 (Patricia Salkin ed., Thomson/West 2006)) (also reprinted as Part I.C. in Land Use Environment Law Review (A. Daniel Tarlock & David L. Callies eds. (Thomson/West 2006)).

New Source Review Reform: Federal Clean Air Act at a Crossroads, with Robert M. Sussman et al., 23 No. 24 Andrews Hazardous Waste Litig. Rep. 10 (2003).

CERCLA Rights and Liabilities, with Gene A. Lucero et al., SF32 ALI-ABA 1 (2000).

Book Note, 10 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 689 (1997) (reviewing Henry J. Perritt, Jr., Law and the Information Superhighway).

Case Study 4: Riverside County Habitat Conservation Plan, and Case Study 6: San Marcos Creek Special Area Management Plan, in Mitigation Banking: Theory and Practice (Lindell L. Marsh et al. eds., Island Press, 1996).