Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold
Boehl Chair in Property & Land Use; Professor of Law; Affiliated Professor of Urban Planning; Chair of the Center for Land Use & Environmental Responsibility
- tony.arnold@louisville.edu
- Phone: 502-852-6388
- Office: 281
Tony Arnold holds the Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use, a Kentucky Research Challenge Trust Fund (“Bucks for Brains”) endowed chair, at the University of Louisville. He teaches in both the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law and the School of Urban and Public Affairs in the fields of land use, water resources, environmental conservation, ecosystem conservation, farmland conservation and sustainable agriculture, property, and real estate transactions. He is the Chair of the interdisciplinary Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility. He joined the U of L faculty in 2005, and has held distinguished chairs or visitorships at the University of Florida, University of Houston, University of Wyoming, Chapman University, and University of Puerto Rico. Professor Arnold received his Doctor of Jurisprudence with Distinction from Stanford Law School, and his Bachelor of Arts with Highest Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Kansas.
Professor Arnold is a
nationally and internationally recognized scholar at the intersection of land
use, water, property, and the environment. His broadly
interdisciplinary scholarship has been cited over 1700 times, and his
innovative ideas – such as the concept of property as a “web of interests” or
the emergence of “wet growth” methods to integrate land use development, water
quality protection, and water supply management – are often discussed by
scholars for their influence. His
research is widely used by policy makers, government agencies, business and
industry groups, lawyers, and environmental and community groups throughout the
U.S. and the world. In 2011, Professor
Arnold received the University of Louisville's Distinguished Faculty Award for
Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity in the Social
Sciences. He is affiliated with research
centers at the Universities of Colorado, Florida, North Carolina - Chapel Hill,
Kentucky, and Louisville. His recent
distinguished lectures include the 2011 Jestrab Lecture on Water at the
University of Montana and a 2012 Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag Lecture at
the University of Utah.
His current research includes a book on the emergence, evolution, and impact of watershed institutions in the U.S. He is also co-authoring the first Environmental Sustainability Law and Policy textbook. And he is pursuing interdisciplinary research on resilience, sustainability, and adaptation in addressing complex land use, water, and environmental problems affected by dynamic and evolving interrelationships among law, social systems, and ecosystems at multiple scales. He says, "I aim to build bridges in my scholarship – across disciplines, across fragmented areas of law, and across theory and practice. Society's complex problems demand trans-disciplinary knowledge and ideas. I was drawn to U of L because of opportunities for interdisciplinary teaching and research." He is known for “getting his cowboy boots muddy” with field research and field-based classes, particularly concerning interconnections among legal, policy, social, and ecological systems.
Professor Arnold is a pragmatic problem-solver. He integrates professional practical skills development into the courses he teaches, such as service-learning projects and zoning permit hearing simulations in Land Use & Planning Law and commercial lease negotiations and drafting in Real Estate Transactions. He practiced law in Texas, clerked for a federal appellate judge, and has extensive public-service experience. He was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of The Nature Conservancy of Kentucky, commencing January 2013, and chairs the Advisory Board for the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He previously served as Chairman of the Planning Commission of Anaheim, California, a city attorney in Texas, co-chair of a Louisville Metro Climate Change Task Force committee on land use, and a member of many boards and task forces. He co-coaches the Law School’s negotiation competition teams.
Professor Tony Arnold discusses land use and water issues with law and planning students (and now alums) Connie Barr Archer and Dustin Wallen.
Courses Taught
Property I and II
Land Use & Planning Law
Water Resources Law & Policy
Land & Ecosystem Conservation
Environmental Law
Real Estate Transactions
Biodiversity & Ecosystem Conservation*
Natural Resources Law*
[* = at other law schools]
Publications
BOOKS and MONOGRAPHS:
Saxer, Arnold, Osofsky, and Tarlock, Environmental Sustainability Law and Policy (Aspen/Wolters Kluwer, forthcoming 2013) (co-authors: Shelley Saxer, Hari Osofsky, and Dan Tarlock)
Rabin, Kwall, Kwall, and Arnold, Fundamentals of Modern Property Law, Sixth Edition (Foundation Press, 2011) (co-authors: Edward H. Rabin, Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, and Jeffrey L. Kwall)
Teacher’s Manual to Rabin, Kwall, Kwall, and Arnold, Fundamentals of Modern Property Law, Sixth Edition (Foundation Press, 2011) (co-authors: Edward H. Rabin, Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, and Jeffrey L. Kwall)
Kentucky
Wet Growth Tools for Sustainable Development : A Handbook on Land Use and Water
for Kentucky Communities (University
of Louisville Center for Land Use & Environmental Responsibility, 2009)
(co-authors: Carol Norton and Dustin Wallen): Received the 2010 Jonathan N.
Helfat Award for Legal Scholarship
Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning, Planning Advisory Service Report, American Planning Association (in coordination with the National Academy of Public Administration, the Government Law Center at Albany Law School, and the Ford Foundation) (2007)
Wet Growth: Should Water Law Control Land Use? (Editor) (Environmental Law Institute 2005)
Privatization of Public Water
Services: The States’ Role in Ensuring Public Accountability (
Beyond Litigation: Case Studies in Water Rights Disputes (co-ed. with Leigh A. Jewell; Environmental Law Institute 2002)
CHAPTERS:
Adaptive Law, in Resilience and Law (Craig R. Allen and Ahjond S. Garmestani, eds.) (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2013) (co-author: Lance H. Gunderson)
Introduction to Resilience and Law, in Resilience and Law (Craig R. Allen and Ahjond S. Garmestani, eds.) (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2013) (co-authors: Ahjond S. Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, & Lance H. Gunderson)
Framing Watersheds, in Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature: A Constructivist Approach (Keith Hirokawa, ed.) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013)
Sustainable Webs of Interests: Property in an Interconnected Environment, in Property Rights and Sustainability: The Evolution of Property Rights to Meet Ecological Challenges (David Grinlinton & Prudence Taylor, eds., 2011)
Introduction: The Fragmentation and Integration of Land Use and Water, in Wet Growth: Should Water Law Control Land Use? (Environmental Law Institute, 2005)
Polycentric Wet Growth: Policy Diversity and
Litigation as Dispute Non-Resolution: Lessons from Case Studies in Water Rights Disputes, in Beyond Litigation: Case Studies in Water Rights Disputes (Environmental Law Institute, 2002)
The Real Public Trust Doctrine: The
Aftermath of the Mono
The Remedy of Monetary Damages in Land Use Litigation, in Powell on Real Property, ch. 79E (2002)
Joint Tenancy, in Powell on Real Property, ch. 51 (2001)
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES:
Adaptive Law and Resilience. Environmental Law Reporter (forthcoming 2013) (co-author: Lance H. Gunderson)
Fourth-Generation
Environmental Law: Integrationist and Multimodal, 35(3) William and Mary
Environmental Law and Policy Review 771 (2011)
Legal
Castles in the Sand: The Evolution of Property Law, Culture, and Ecology in
Coastal Lands, 61(2) Syracuse Law Review 213 (2011)
Sustainable Webs of Interests: Property in
an Interconnected Environment, 2 Journal
of Animal and Environmental Law 27 (2011)
Adaptive
Watershed Planning and Climate Change,
5 Environmental
and Energy Law and Policy Journal 417 (2010)
Law’s
Adaptive Capacity and Climate Change’s Impacts on Water, 5 Environmental
and Energy Law and Policy Journal v (2010)
Exemplary
Research in Environmentally Responsible Land Use, 22 Sustain: A Journal of
Environmental and Sustainability Issues 2 (2010)
The
Structure of the Land Use Regulatory System in the United States, 22 Sustain:
A Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Issues 36 (2010) (edited and revised excerpt of
prior work published in anthology of exemplary scholarship on environmentally
responsible land use)
Water Privatization
Trends in the United States: Human Rights, National Security, and Public
Stewardship, 33(3) William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy
Review 785 (2009)
The Structure of the Land Use Regulatory System in the United States, 22(2) Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law 441 (2007)
Planning for Environmental Justice, 59(3) Planning and Environmental Law 3 (March 2007)
Clean-Water Land Use: Connecting Scale and Function, 23(2) Pace Environmental Law Review 291 (2006)
For the Sake of Water: Land Conservation and Watershed Protection, 14 Sustain: A Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Issues 16 (2006)
Is Wet Growth Smarter Than Smart Growth?:
The Fragmentation and Integration of Land Use and Water, 35 Environmental Law Reporter 10152 (2005)
Privatization of Public Water Services: The States’ Role in Ensuring Public Accountability, 32 Pepperdine Law Review 561 (2005)
Working Out an Environmental Ethic: Anniversary Lessons from Mono Lake, 4 Wyoming Law Review 1 (2004), selected as a finalist for 36 Land Use and Environment Law Review as one of the 20 best land use and environmental law articles published in 2004, as selected by peer review
The Reconstitution of Property: Property as a Web of Interests, 26 Harvard Environmental Law Review 281 (2002), reprinted at 34 Land Use and Environment Law Review 65 (2003), as one of the 10 best land use and environmental law articles published in 2002, as selected by peer review
Litigation’s Bounded Effectiveness and the Real Public Trust Doctrine: The Aftermath of the Mono Lake Case, 8 Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 1 (2002) (co-authored with Leigh A. Jewell), reprinted at 12 Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 1177 (2008).
Land Use Justice, 3.2 Projections: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Journal of Planning 32 (2002)
Land Use Regulation and Environmental Justice, 30 Environmental Law Reporter 10395 (2000)
How Do Law Students
Really Learn? Problem-Solving, Modern Pragmatism, and Property Law,
22
Planning Milagros: Environmental Justice and
Land Use Regulation, 76
Religious Freedom as a Civil Rights Struggle, 2 Nexus (2) 149 (1997)
Conserving Habitats, Building Habitats: The Emerging Impact of the Endangered Species Act on Land-Use Development, 10 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 1 (1991): Honorable Mention, Murie Award in Environmental Law
Ignoring the Rural Underclass: The Biases of Federal Housing Policy, 2 Stanford Law & Policy Review 191 (1990)
Beyond Self-Interest: Policy Entrepreneurs and Aid to the Homeless, 18 Policy Studies Journal 47 (1989)
GRANTS and FUNDED PROJECTS:
Community Land Use Assessment for Fair and Healthy Neighborhoods: An Educational-Community Partnership in West Louisville, $10,000 grant to the Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility from the Center for Health Equity, Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness
Kentucky Growth Readiness Workshops and Kentucky Wet Growth Handbook, approx. $25,000 sub-grant to the Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Clean Water Act Section 319 grant) to the Kentucky Division of Water and the University of Louisville Department of Geography for the Commonwealth Water Education Project
Member of Water Infrastructure Capacity Building Team for HUD Sustainable Communities Capacity Building Grant of $400,000 to the Center for Environmental Policy and Management from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
PEER REVIEWER:
Land Use and Environment Law Review
Policy Studies Journal
Remote Sensing
Journal of Education for Sustainable Development (Sage)
Blue Waters, Green Cities: Proceedings of the Wingspread Workshop on
Cities of the Future
Sea Grant Law and Policy Journal
Policy and Society
Presentations
Distinguished Lectures or Keynote Presentations, 2007-present (conference presentations or other presentations, including local presentations, omitted due to quantity):
Watershed Institutions in the U.S.: Emergence and Evolution, Stegner Center Green Bag Lecture, Wallace Stegner Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, October 16, 2012
Three Strategies for Effectively Integrating Water into Sustainable Community Development, Workshop on Incorporating Water Management into the Community Planning Process (workshop for HUD Sustainable Community Grants recipients nationwide) University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, August 16, 2012
Adaptive Watershed Planning and Climate Change, The Frank and Elvira Jestrab Lecture on Water, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, September 27, 2011
Symposium Visiting Professor (organizer), Symposium on Climate Change, Water, and Adaptive Law, University of Houston Law Center and the Environmental & Energy Law & Policy Journal, Houston, TX, February 26, 2010; Presentation: Adaptive Watershed Planning at the Intersection of Climate Change, Water, Land Use, and Law
Fourth-Generation Environmental Law: Integrationist and Multimodal, Distinguished Lecture in Environmental and Land Use Law, Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, FL, October 28, 2009
Clean Water Restoration Act Update, Luncheon Keynote, Water Policy & Economics Conference: 21st Century Water Issues in the Southern States, Southern Region Water Program (a partnership of USDA CREES and Land Grant Colleges and Universities), University of Florida Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, FL, October 13, 2009
Sustainable Webs of Interests: Reconceptualizing Property in an Interconnected Environment, Keynote Speech, New Zealand Center for Environmental Law Conference on Property Rights and Sustainability: The Evolution of Property Rights to Meet Ecological Challenges, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ, April 16, 2009 (via video-conference)
Sustainable Webs of Interests: Reconceptualizing Property in an Interconnected Environment, University of Kansas (Honors and University Scholars Programs, Schools of Law and Architecture & Urban Planning, Departments of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Center for Sustainability), Lawrence, KS, April 18, 2009
Law and Planning Are Not Enough: Interdisciplinary Research on Environmental Conservation and Discretionary Land Use Decision Making, PhD Program Colloquium, University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cincinnati, OH, October 23, 2008
The Vitality Principle in Urban Environments for Children and Youth: Environmental Justice Lessons from Parks, Plans, Rivers, and Communities, Distinguished Lecture, Children, Youth and Environments Center for Research and Design, University of Colorado College of Architecture and Planning, Boulder, CO, October 9, 2008
Water Privatization Trends in the U.S.: Issues of Human Rights and National Security, Distinguished Lecture, Human Rights and National Security Law Program, College of William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Williamsburg, VA, September 16, 2008
Models of Clean-Water Land Use, Environmental and Land Use Capstone Colloquium on Land, Water, and Growth, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL, April 3, 2008
Organizer: Session on Children, Nature, and Land Use, Symposium on Law, Ethics, and the Life Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, October 26, 2007; Presentation: Vital Places: Healthy Child-Nature Connections in Plans, Codes, Projects, and Decisions
Organizer,
Panel on Democracy, Environmental Law, and Land Use: Conflict or Confluence?,
Southeast Association of Law Schools (SEALS),
The Lake, the Trust, and the Map: Can Environmental Law Achieve Environmental Conservation?, Luncheon Speaker, Phi Beta Kappa Awards Luncheon, Phi Beta Kappa Association of Kentuckiana, Louisville, KY, May 8, 2007
Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning, Bettman Symposium Speaker, Correcting Environmental Injustices, American Planning Association 99th National Planning Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 15, 2007
The Lake, the Trust, and the Map: Can
Environmental Law Achieve Environmental Conservation?,
The People’s Land: Justice Brandeis, Environmental Conservation, and Wisdom for Today’s Land Use Challenges, Inaugural Boehl Distinguished Lecture in Land Use Policy, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, February 13, 2007
University and Community Service
Community Service (selected service responsibilities; dates only for service after 2005):
The Nature Conservancy of Kentucky, Board of Trustees, 2013-present
Deacon, Redeemer Lutheran Church, 2011-present
Louisville Metro Climate Change Task Force, Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Land Use, Transportation, and Urban Forestry, 2007-2009
River Fields, Board of Trustees, 2008-2009
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville, Board of Directors, 2007-2008
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville, Coordinator, Historic Land Use Research Team, 2006-2009
West Jefferson County Community Task Force, Board of Directors, 2006-2008
Louisville Metro Fine Particulate Matter Air Quality Task Force, 2007
Honorary Board, Passionist Earth and Spirit Center, 2008-present
Chair, Advisory Board, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas, chair since 2011, member since 2007
Chairman, City of Anaheim (California) Planning Commission
City of Anaheim (California) General Plan Advisory Committee
City Attorney, City of Hondo, Texas
Board of Directors, Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, San Antonio, Texas: Chair, Pro Bono Subcommittee
Vice-President, Board of Directors, & General Counsel, Federación Ecuménica de Fe y Acción, San Antonio, Texas
Advisory Board, Good Samaritan Center, San Antonio, Texas
University Service (selected service responsibilities, 2005-present):
Chair, Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility
University Sustainability Council, 2008-present
Education and Research Committee, 2008-present
Co-Chair, Research Subcommittee, 2011-present
Phi Beta Kappa Speakers Committee, 2010-present
Faculty Liaison (from Law School), University Signature Partnership Initiative, 2006-2009
Internal Advisory Board, Logistics and Distribution Institute, 2007-2009
University Selection Committee, Awards for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity, 2008, 2009
Co-Chair, Law School Dean Search Committee, 2006
Faculty Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Management
Advisor, J.D.-M.U.P. Dual Degree Program in Law and Urban Planning