Professor Dan Tarlock
Contact Details:
dtarlock@kentlaw.edu
+1 312 906-5217
Professor Dan Tarlock is Distinguished Professor of Law at the Chicago - Kent College of Law, Chicago.
He is an internationally recognized expert in environmental law and the law of land and water use.
Professor Tarlock is currently one of three United States special legal advisers to the NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation.
| Year | Publication |
|---|---|
2009 |
Water Resource Management: A Casebook in Law and Public Policy, Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press, New York, 6th ed., 2009. |
2009 |
"Are Shared Benefits of International Waters an Equitable Apportionment?", (2007) Vol.18, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, 523 [Co-author] |
| Year | Publication |
|---|---|
2009 |
Water Resource Management: A Casebook in Law and Public Policy, Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press, New York, 6th ed., 2009. |
2007 |
"Are Shared Benefits of International Waters an Equitable Apportionment?", (2007) Vol.18, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, 523 [Co-author] |
2007 |
"Ecosystems", in Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée & Ellen Hey, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007, p.574. |
2007 |
International Environmental Law and Policy, Aspen Publishers, 2nd ed., 2007 [Co-author]. |
2006 |
"Western Growth and Sustainable Water Use: If There Are No “Natural Limits”, Should We Worry About Water Supplies", (2006) Vol.27, Public Land & Resources Law Review, 33. |
2004 |
"National Water Law: The Foundation of Sustainable Water Use", (2004) Vol.15 No3 Water Law 120. |
2001 |
"The Future of Prior Appropriation in the New West", (2001) Vol.41 National Resources Journal, 769. |
2000 |
"Reconnecting Property Rights to Watersheds, (2000) Vol.25 William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, 69. |
Research
Professor Dan Tarlock holds an A.B. and LL.B. from Stanford University. He is an internationally recognized expert in environmental law and the law of land and water use. He has published a treatise, Law of Water Rights and Resources, and is a co-author of four casebooks, Water Resource Management, Environmental Law, Land Use Controls, and Environmental Protection: Law and Policy.
Professor Tarlock is also a frequent consultant to local, state, federal and international agencies, private groups and law firms, and is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Teaching
Professor Dan Tarlock is Distinguished Professor of Law at the Chicago - Kent College of Law, Chicago. He has previously been a permanent member of the faculties of the University of Kentucky and Indiana University. Professor Tarlock has also visited at several law schools including the universities of Chicago, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, Kansas, Michigan and Utah.
Professor Tarlock’s teaching and research include water law, land use controls, energy and natural resource law as well as international environmental law. One of his specific focuses is on the rules for sharing domestic and international water resources. He has notably lectured on the problems of ecosystem, natural resources and river basin management in Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, the Netherlands, and Scotland as well as throughout the United States.
Outreach
Professor Tarlock has served on several National Research Council/ National Academy of Sciences committees studying the protection and recovery of stressed aquatic ecosystems, including a ten year review of the operation of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, a study of the restoration of the Missouri River ecosystem, published as The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery (2002) and assessment of the future of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
In 1998, he was the chief report writer for the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission report, Water in the West, which was one of the first major federal publications to examine the relationship between urban growth and water use.
Professor Tarlock is currently one of three United States special legal advisers to the NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation.

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