Marc R. Poirier

Professor of Law
 SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL

poiriema@shu.edu
(973)642-8478
 
 
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Biography

Professor Poirier received his B.A, magna cum laude, from Yale University, his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and his LL.M. from Yale Law School. In private practice as a partner with Spiegel & McDiarmid in Washington, D.C., he served as President of the Committee on Hydroelectric Regulation of the Federal Energy Bar Association. He has published in the areas of environmental law, environmental justice, property law and theory, coastal land use, gender discrimination, and law and sexual orientation. He joined the faculty in 1991.
 
Publications
 
Law Review Articles

Gender, Place, Discursive Space: Where is Same-Sex Marriage?, -- Florida Int'l U. L. Rev. -- (forthcoming 2009) (LatCrit XII Symposium).

Natural Resources, Congestion and the Feminist Future: On Frischmann's Infrastructure Theory, 35 Ecology L. Q. - (forthcoming 2008).

The Cultural Property Claim Within the Same Sex Marriage Controversy,  - Columbia gender & L. - (forthcoming 2008).

Federalism and Cultural Identity Conflicts: The Case of Same Sex Marriage, Temple Political & Civil Rights L. Rev. - (forthcoming 2008).

A Very Clear Blue Line: Behavioral Economics, Public Choice, Public Art and Sea Level Rise, 16 Southeastern Envt'l L. J. 83 (2007).

Federalism and Localism in Kelo and San Remo, in Private Property, Community Development, and Eminent Domain 101 (Robin Paul Malloy ed., forthcoming 2008).

Piecemeal and Wholesale Approaches Towards Marriage Equality in New Jersey: Is Lewis v. Harris a Dead End or Just a Detour?, 59 Rutgers L. Rev. 291 (2007).

Modified Private Property: New Jersey's Public Trust Doctrine, Private Development and Exclusion, and Shared Public Uses of Natural Resources, 15 Southeastern Envt'l L. J. 71 (2006).

Is Cognitive Bias at Work a Dangerous Condition on Land?, 7 EMPLOYEE RIGHTS & EMPLOYMENT L. J. 459 (2003).

The NAFTA Chapter 11 Expropriation Debate Through the Eyes of a Property Theorist, 35 ENVT'L L. 851(2003).

Hastening the Kulturkampf: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale and the Politics of American Masculinity, 12 LAW & SEXUALITY 271 (2003).

"It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times...:" Science, Rhetoric and Distribution in a Risky World, 53 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 409 (2002).

The Virtue of Vagueness in Takings Doctrine, 24 CARDOZO L. REV. 93 (2002).

Gender Stereotypes at Work, 65 Brooklyn L. Rev. 1073 (1999).

Introduction: Facing the Passaic, 29 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1 (1998).

Property, Environment, Community, 12 J. Envt'l L. & Lit. 43 (1997).

Environmental Justice and the Beach Access Movements of the 1970s in Connecticut and New Jersey: Stories of Property and Civil Rights, 28 Conn. L. Rev. 719 (1996).

On Whose Authority?: Linguists' Claim of Expertise to Interpret Statutes, 73 Wash. U. L. Q. 1025 (1995).

Environmental Justice/Racism/Equity: Can We Talk?, 96 W. Va. L. Rev. 1083 (1994).

Takings and Natural Hazards Policy: Public Choice on the Beachfront, 46 RUTGERS L. REV. 243 (1993).

Marc R. Poirier & Jane Hardin, Public Preference and the Relicensing of Hydroelectric Projects, 21 HARV. J. LEGIS. 459 (1984).

Other Articles

Putting Lawrence v. Texas to Work, SALT Equalizer, August 2003, at 2, available at www.saltlaw.org.

Environmental Law and Regulations, Manual for U.S. Army Corps PROSPECT Course (1998, 2001 revisions).

Yet Another Minor Earthquake in the Law of Regulatory Takings: Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, 23:2 THE COASTAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 1 (2001), available at http://www.mli.usm.maine.edu/TCS_2001_2rep.pdf.

Hudson River Walkway project survives takings challenge, thanks to the New Jersey public trust doctrine, 23:1 The Coastal Society Bulletin 26 (2001).

Egypt's Environmental Challenge, 20:1 The Coastal Society Bulletin 26  (1998).

Will We Ever Get Clear Rules About Takings?, New Jersey Bar Association Environmental Law Section Newsletter 1 (June, 1993).

Report of the [Federal Energy Bar Association] Committee on Part I Regulations [hydroelectric regulation], 10 Energy L. J. 399 (1989).

Revival of Federalism May Be Reflected by Court's Astention, Legal Times (with Daniel Schnee, Washington, D.C. Jan. 12, 1987, p. 15).

Report of the [Federal Energy Bar Association] Committee on Regulation Under Part I Of The Federal Power Act [hydroelectric regulation], 4 Energy   L. J. 305 (1983).

Book Chapters

Marc R. Poirier Beach Access, in The Encyclopedia of New England 906. (Burt Feintuch & David H. Watters, eds.) (Yale U. Press 2005).

The Clean Water Act, in Environmental Law Practice guide. (Matthew Bender, 2000 revision).

Regulatory Takings Doctrine, in Environmental Law Practice guide. (Matthew Bender, March, 1999 revision).

Wetlands and Land Use, in Casebook on Zoning, Planning and Land Use Law in New Jersey. (David D. Furman, 1996).

Book Review

The National Environmental Policy Act, 5 Environmental History 578 (2000). (A review of Lynton Caldwell’s The National Environmental Policy Act (1998).