After law school, Professor Mank served as law clerk for Justice David M. Shea of the Connecticut Supreme Court. He later became associated with the Hartford, Conn., law firm of Murtha, Cullina, Righter and Pinney, where his emphasis was environmental law. In 1989, Professor Mank became an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Connecticut and held that position for two years before joining the College of Law faculty in 1991. He has authored many articles and book chapters on environmental justice, regulatory reform and statutory interpretation. He has also worked with the City of Cincinnati on a number of environmental ordinances and implementation matters, including climate change, environmental justice, recycling and air pollution issues.

Download a copy of Professor Mank's Curriculum Vitae (pdf).

Publications

Editorial Positions

Board of Editors, Projections 3; MIT Joural of Planning: Planning for Environmental Justice (2002)

Articles

Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA’s New Standing Test for States, William & Mary L. Rev. (forthcoming 2008).

Can Plaintiffs Use Multinational Environmental Treaties as Customary International Law to Sue Under the Alien Tort Statute?, Utah L. Rev. (forthcoming Dec. 2007).

Are Public Facilities Different From Private Ones? : Adopting a New Standard of Review for the Dormant Commerce Clause, 60 SMU Law Rev. 157-207 (2007).

Implementing Rapanos-Will Justice Kennedy’s Significant Nexus Test Provide a Workable Standard for Lower Courts, Regulators and Developers?, 40 Indiana Law Rev. 291-349 (2007).

Title VI and the Warren County Protests, 1 Golden Gate Environmental Law Review 73 (2007).

After Gonzales v. Raich: Is the Endangered Species Act Constitutional under the Commerce Clause?, University of Colorado Law Review (forthcoming 2007).

Prudential Standing and the Dormant Commerce Clause: Why the "Zone of Interests" Test Should Not Apply to Constitutional Cases, 48 Arizona Law Review 609 (forthcoming Spring 2006).

A Scrivener's Error or Greater Protection of the Public: Does the EPA Have the Authority to Delist "Low-Risk" Sources of Carcinogens From Section 112's Maximum Available Control Technology Requirements?, 24 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 75 (2005).

Standing and Global Warming: Is Injury to All Injury to None?, 35 Envtl. Law 1 (2005).

Can Administrative Regulations Interpret Rights Enforceable Under Section1983?: Why Chevron Deference Survives Sandoval and Gonzaga, 32 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 843 (2005).

Are Anti-Retaliation Regulations in Title VI or Title IX Enforceable in a Private Right of Action: Does Sandoval or Sullivan Control This Question?, 35 Seton Hall L. Rev. 47 (2004).

Can Congress Regulate Intrastate Endangered Species Under the Commerce Clause?, 69 Brooklyn L. Rev. 923 (2004).

The Murky Future of the Clean Water Act After SWANCC, 30 Ecology Law Quarterly 811 (2003) [University of California, Berkeley].

Suing Under 1983: The Future After Gonzaga v. Doe, 39 Houston Law Review 1417 (2003).

Essay, Are Title VI's Disparate Impact Regulations Valid?, 71 University of Cincinnati Law Review 517 (2002) (Faculty Symposium/Solicited).

Legal Context: Reading Statutes in Light of Prevailing Legal Precedent, 34 Arizona State Law Journal 815 (2002).

Protecting Intrastate Threatened Species: Does the Endangered Species Act Encroach on Traditional State Authority and Exceed the Outer Limits of the Commerce Clause?, 36 Georgia Law Review 723 (2002).

South Camden Citizens In Action v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection: Will Section 1983 Save Title VI Disparate Impact Suits?, 32 Environmental Law Reporter 10454 (Environmental Law Institute) (April 2002).

Proving an Environmental Justice Case: Determining an Appropriate Comparison Population, 20 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 365 (2001).

A Survey of Federal Agency Response to President Clinton's Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice, 30 Environmental Law Reporter 11133 (Environmental Law Institute) (Oct. 2001) (with Denis Binder et al) (authored EPA portion of the article).

Using Section 1983 to Enforce Title VI's Section 602 Regulations, 49 Kansas Law Review 321 (2001).

The Draft Recipient Guidance and Draft Revision Investigation Guidance: Too Much Discretion for the EPA and a More Difficult Standard for Complainants? 30 Environmental Law Reporter 11144 (Environmental Law Institute)(Dec. 2000).

Should State Corporate Law Define Success or Liability? The Demise of CERCLA's Federal Common Law, 68 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1157 (2000) (Symposium/Solicited).

Do State Brownfield Programs Violate Title VI?, 24 Harvard Environmental Law Review 115 (2000).

Title VI and Environmental Justice: Making Recipients Justify Their Siting Decisions, 73 Tulane Law Review 787 (1999).

Is There a Private Cause of Action Under EPA's Title VI Regulations?: The Need to Empower Environmental Justice Plaintiffs, 24 Columbia Environmental Law Review 1 (1999).

The EPA's Project XL and Other Regulatory Reform Initiatives: The Need for Legislative Authorization, 25 Ecology Law Quarterly 1 (1998) (University of California, Berkeley).

Textualism's Selective Canons of Statutory Construction: Reinvigorating Individual Liberties, Legislative Authority and Deference to Executive Agencies, 86 Kentucky Law Journal 527 (1998).

American Mining Congress v. Army Department: Ignoring Chevron and the Clean Water Act's Broad Purposes, 25 Northern Kentucky Law Review 51 (1997) [Solicited/Symposium].

Is a Textualist Approach to Statutory Interpretation Pro-Environmentalist? Why Pragmatic Agency Decisionmaking Is Better Than Judicial Literalism, 53 Washington &Amp; Lee Law Review 1231 (1996).

Protecting the Environment for Future Generations: A Proposal for a "Republican" Superagency, 5 New York University Environmental Law Journal 444 (1996).

Environmental Justice and Discriminatory Siting: Risk-Based Representation and Equitable Compensation, 56 Ohio State Law Journal 329 (1995).

What Comes After Technology: Using an "Exceptions Process" to Improve Residual Risk Regulation of Hazardous Air Pollutants, 13 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 263 (1994).

Superfund Contractors and Agency Capture, 2 New York University Environmental Law Journal 34 (1993).

Preventing Bhopal: "Dead Zones" and Toxic Death Risk Index Taxes, 53 Ohio State Law Journal 761 (1992).

The Two-Headed Dragon of Siting and Cleaning Up Hazardous Waste Dumps: Can Economic Incentives or Mediation Slay the Monster?, 19 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 239 (1991).

Book Chapters

Standing and Remedies, Chapter 6, Global Warming (Michael B. Gerrard ed.) (American Bar Association forthcoming in 2006).

Book Chapters on Title VI and Environment Justice and Executive Order 12,898, in Environmental Justice (Michael B. Gerrard & Sheila Foster eds.) (American Bar Association 1999; Second Edition, 2006). In 2002, I updated the Title VII materials for use by American Bar Association, Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section, Environmental Justice Committee for Continuing Legal Education on Environmental Justice.

The Rights of Indigenous Peoples to a Healthy Environment and Use of National Resources Under International Human Rights Law, 235-248 in Effective Strategies for Protecting Human Rights: Economic Sanctions, Use of National Courts and International Fora and Coercive Power (David Barnhizer ed.) (Ashcraft, 2001).

Environmental Justice Litigation chapter in Environmental Law Practice Guide (Michael B. Gerrard ed.) (Matthew Bender 1998).

Public Participation (Chapter 31) and Other Remedial Issues (Chapter 25), in Brownfield's Law And Practice (Michael B. Gerrard ed.) (Matthew Bender 1998).