Alejandro Camacho

Associate Professor of Law

Office Number: 3166 Eck Hall of Law
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. Professor Camacho’s research primarily focuses on regulatory innovation in environmental, land use, and natural resources law. Professor Camacho will be visiting at the UC Irvine School of Law for the 2009-10 academic year.

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. Before entering 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 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 also the chair of the policy subgroup of the Assisted Migration Working Group, a multidisciplinary collaborative effort involving government officials, non-profit organizations, and academics that is exploring potential adaptations to climate change. He is a frequent lecturer and presenter, most recently at Emory University, University of Colorado, University of St. Thomas, Michigan State University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Tulane University, University of Illinois, Georgetown University, and Northwestern University.

LAW60906, Property

LAW70349, Environmental Law

LAW73326, Regulatory Reform and Innovation

Faculty Expertise Areas

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

Works in Progress

The Legality and Ethics of Assisted Migration (work in progress).

Comparing Experiments in Collaborative Planning and Adaptive Management (with Lawrence Susskind & Todd Schenk) (work in progress).

Climate Change Adaptation, Uncertainty & Learning in a Federal System (work in progress).

Conservation Goals in a Changing Climate (with Holly Doremus et al.) (work in progress).

Law Review Articles

Collaborative Planning and Adaptive Management in Glen Canyon: Who’s Kidding Whom?, 35 COLUM. J. ENVTL. L. __ (with Lawrence Susskind & Todd Schenk) (forthcoming 2010).

Adapting Governance to Climate Change: Learning to Manage Uncertainty, 59 EMORY L. J. 1 (forthcoming 2009).

Beyond Conjecture: Learning about Ecosystem Management from the Glen Canyon Dam Experiment, 8 Nev. L. J. 942 (2008) (invited).

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)).

Science Articles (Peer Reviewed)

Multidimensional evaluation of managed relocation (with David Richardson et al.), 106 PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. 9721 (forthcoming 2009).

Book Segments

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).

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

Essays and Other Legal Publications

Climate Change and Regulatory Fragmentation in the Great Lakes Basin, 17 MICH. ST. J. INT’L L. 139 (2008) (invited).

Mustering the Missing Voices, Notre Dame Lawyer, Fall 2006, at 24.

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).