Bruce Huber
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development
Professor of Law
Office: 2155 Eck Hall of Law
Phone: 574-631-2538
Email: bhuber@nd.edu
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Professor Bruce Huber teaches and conducts research in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, property, and energy law. After earning his undergraduate degree at Stanford University, Huber received his J.D. and a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned several teaching awards. Before joining the law faculty at Notre Dame in 2011, he taught for several years in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. He has also practiced law in Washington State and worked as a college minister for a large Presbyterian church.
Huber’s particular areas of expertise include energy regulation, public land and resource management, and environmental politics. His scholarship in these fields has been published in such journals as the California Law Review, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and The Georgetown Law Journal. In 2017 and 2022, his journal articles were selected as among the top five publications in the field of environmental law that year.
Huber has presented his work at numerous events and conferences around the world and has been quoted in the national media on matters related to his research. The graduating classes of 2017 and 2023 selected Huber as the Distinguished Professor of the Year.
Courses Taught
Law 60909, Property
Law 70329, Energy Law
Law 70350, Natural Resources Law
Law 70328, Water Law
Law 70349, Environmental Law
Law 74431, International Environmental Law
Scholarship
The Resurgence of Sovereignty: Environmental Implications and Pathways for Future Research, in A Research Agenda for Environmental Law (Josephine van Zeben & Chris Hilson eds. 2024)
The Law and Economics of Freshwater, in Efficiency and Justice: Law and Economics in All its Facets (Peter Nobel, Alexander Bauman & Elias Aliverti eds. 2023)
Negative-Value Property, 98 Washington University Law Review 1461 (2021)
The New Nuclear? Small Modular Reactors and the Future of Nuclear Power, 1 Notre Dame Journal of Emerging Technology 458 (2020)
Property Rights, in Policy Instruments in Environmental Law (Ken Richards & Josephine Van Zeben eds., Edward Elgar 2020)
The US Public Lands as Commons, in Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons (Blake Hudson, Jonathan Rosenbloom, and Dan Cole eds., Routledge 2019)
Energy Law and Economics (Klaus Mathis & Bruce Huber eds.) (2018)
Environmental Law and Economics (Klaus Mathis & Bruce Huber eds.) (2017)
Checks, Balances, and Nuclear Waste, 48 Arizona State Law Journal 1169 (2016)
The Fair Market Value of Public Resources, 103 California Law Review 1515 (2015)
Demand Response and Market Power, 100 Iowa Law Review Bulletin 87 (2015)
The Durability of Private Claims to Public Property, 102 Georgetown Law Journal 991 (2014)
How Did RGGI Do It? Political Economy and Emissions Auctions, 39 Ecology Law Quarterly 59 (2013)
Transition Policy in Environmental Law, 35 Harvard Environmental Law Review 91 (2011)