Karen Bradshaw
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Phone: 480-727-0616
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Mail code: 9520Campus: Dtphx
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Karen Bradshaw is a Professor of Law and the Mary Sigler Fellow at Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. She is concurrently a Faculty Affiliate Scholar at the New York University School of Law Classical Liberal Institute and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.
Bradshaw's research has been featured in media outlets including Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, National Public Radio, NPR's Planet Money, The New York Times, and The Arizona Republic. Bradshaw has published over twenty academic articles. She is the author of the book Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights and contributing co-editor of Wildfire Policy: Law and Economic Perspectives. She is an expert on the topics of rights of nature, biodiversity, animal rights, wildlfire, and animal law.
In 2021, Bradshaw was named the Desert Humanities Institute Fellow in recognition of her cross-cutting, interdisciplinary contributions. In 2020, Bradshaw received the 2020 Stegner Young Scholar award, an annual award recognizing an early career environmental law scholar for their accomplishments and promise within the field. Bradshaw’s articles were nationally recognized, through a process of peer-review, as being among the top articles published in the fields of Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Land Use Law, and Natural Resources Law in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020.
Bradshaw graduated with a JD, with honors, from University of Chicago Law School, where she was a law review editor, and the recipient of the faculty-awarded Casper Platt award, Bradley Fellowship, Stout Family Fellowship, and Tony Patino Fellowship. Bradshaw clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the Fifth Circuit and spent two years as a research fellow at New York University School of Law. Prior to law school, she earned an MBA from California State University, Chico and a BS in Business Administration from University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Chancellor’s Scholar.
- J.D. (Honors), University of Chicago Law School
- M.B.A. California State University, Chico (executive program for working professionals)
- B.S. Business Administration, University of California-Berkeley
Books
The New Animal Rights: Saving America’s Wildlife by Uncovering the Biological Origins of Property (University of Chicago Press, under contract)
Wildfire: Law & Economics Policy Perspectives (Routledge, 2012) (co-editor Dean Lueck).
Articles
Agency Democratic Risk Management, __ B.Y.U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2020).
Fragmented Wildlife Habitat, __ Int’l J. Commons __ (forthcoming 2019).
Stakeholder Dynamics in Land Development, __ J. Legal Stud. __ (forthcoming 2019).
Expropriating Habitat, 43 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2019).
Stakeholder Collaborations, __ Ariz. St. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2019).
Animal Property Rights 89 U. Colo. L. Rev. 809 (2018), excerpted in part in David S. Farve, Animal Law: Welfare Interests & Rights (Aspen, forthcoming 2019).
Agency Coordination of Private Action: The Role of Relational Contracting 6 Tex. A&M. L. Rev. 229 (2018) (symposium).
Using Takings to Undo Givings 10 N.Y.U. J. L. & Liberty 649 (2017) (symposium).
Settling for Natural Resource Damages 40 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 211 (2016), 40 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 211 (2016), reprinted in 54 Rocky Mnt. Min. L. Fdn. J. (2017), reprinted in Mandarin translation in Chinese Envtl. & Resources L. Rev., 环境资源法论丛 (forthcoming 2019).
The Short-Term Temptations and Long-Term Risks of Environmental Catastrophism 56 Jurimetrics J. 234 (2016) (with Gary E. Marchant).
Contracting for Control of Landscape-Level Resources, 100 Iowa L. Rev. 2507 (2015) (co-author Dean Lueck).
Information Flooding, 48 Ind. L. Rev. 755 (2015).
New Governance and Industry Culture, 88 Notre Dame L. Rev. 2515 (2013).
Backfired! Distorted Incentives in Wildfire Suppression 31 Utah Envtl. L. Rev. 155 (2011).
A Modern Overview of Wildfire Law 21 Fordham Envtl. L. Rev. 445 (2010).
Book Chapters
The Role of Norms in Wildfire Suppression, in Wildfire: Law & Economics Policy Perspectives (Routledge, 2012).
Academic Administrators and the Challenge of Social-Networking Websites, in The Offensive Internet (Harvard University Press, 2011) (Saul Levmore & Martha Naussbaum, eds.) (with Souvik Saha).
Works in Progress
Virtual Parceling (with Bryan Leonard)
Other Publications
Stakeholder Collaborations for Managing Land & Natural Resources Report for the Administrative Conference of the United States
Courses
2024 Fall
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2024 Spring
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
2023 Fall
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2023 Spring
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
2022 Fall
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 631 | Environmental Law |
2022 Summer
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2022 Spring
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 523 | Property |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
2021 Fall
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 631 | Environmental Law |
2021 Summer
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 631 | Environmental Law |
2020 Fall
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 639 | Natural Resource Law |
2020 Summer
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2020 Spring
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2019 Fall
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |