Faculty Profiles
John H. Knox
Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law
Phone: 336.758.7439
Email: knoxjh@wfu.edu
Location: Worrell 3345
Books and Book Chapters
- The Evolution of Environmental Rights (in progress).
- Diagonal Environmental Rights, in Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010).
- The Flawed Trail Smelter Procedure, in Transboundary Harms in International Law: Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2006). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=665682
- The International Law of Biodiversity, in Biodiversity: Addressing a Global Issue Locally (Environmental Law Institute, 2005).
- Greening NAFTA: The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, (Stanford University Press, 2003), co-authored with David L. Markell. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=453180
Articles
- Establishing the Duties of Corporations Under HumanRights Law, in Corporations and Human Rights (Radu Mares ed., 2012) (forthcoming).
- A Presumption Against Extrajurisdictionality, 104 American Journal of International Law 351 (2010). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1657126
- Neglected Lessons of the NAFTA Environmental Regime, 45 Wake Forest L. Rev. 391 (2010).
- Climate Change and Human Rights Law, 50 Virginia Journal of International Law 163 (2009). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1480120.
- Linking Human Rights and Climate Change at the United Nations, 33 Harvard Environmental Law Review 477 (2009). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1457793
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Horizontal Human Rights Law, 102 American Journal of International Law 1 (2008). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1014381
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The Boundary Waters Treaty: Ahead of Its Time, and Ours, 54 Wayne Law Review 1591 (2008). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371209
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The Judicial Resolution of Conflicts Between Trade and the Environment, 28 Harvard Environmental Law Review 1 (2004).
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Separated at Birth: The North American Agreements on Labor and the Environment, 26 Loyola International and Comparative Law Review 101 (2004).
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The Legal Framework for Addressing Climate Change, 12 Penn State Environmental Law Review 135 (2004).
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Assessing the Candidates for a Global Treaty on Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment, 12 N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal 153 (2003).
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The Myth and Reality of Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment, 96 American Journal of International Law 291 (2002).
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A New Approach to Compliance with International Environmental Law: the Submissions Procedure of the NAFTA Environmental Commission, 28 Ecology Law Quarterly 1 (2001).
Case Notes and Book Reviews
- Natural Resources Defense Council v. Environmental Protection Agency, 101 American Journal of International Law 471 (2007).
- Review of Gary Hufbauer & Jeffrey Schott, NAFTA Revisited, for Global Law Books, available at http://www.globallawbooks.org/reviews/detail.asp?id=236 (posted 2007).
- The 2005 Activity of the NAFTA Tribunals, 100 American Journal of International Law 429 (2006).
- The Case of the MIssing Paradigm, 32 Texas International Law Journal 355 (1997) (review of Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations).



