Articles
Law Review Articles
Military Carbon Emissions
24 NEVADA LAW JOURNAL __ (2024)
Federal Environmental Justice Legislation and Regulations
53 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 10527 (2023) (with Kristine Perry, Stacey Halliday and Christine Hicks)
Synthesizing Energy Transitions
39 GEORGIA STATE LAW REVIEW 1087 (2023) (with Uma Outka, Danielle Stokes and Hannah Wiseman)
Climate Chauvinism: Rethinking Loss and Damage
28 SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 238 (2023) (with Victoria Beatty)
The Cliodynamics of Mass Incarceration, Climate Change, and "Chains on Our Feet"
49 FORDHAM URBAN LAW JOURNAL (371) (2022)
Environmental Law as Segregation
64 HOWARD LAW REVIEW 439 (2021) (with Melissa Bryan)
“Blood, Sweat, Tears:” A Muslim Woman Law Professor’s View on Degenerative Racism, Misogyny, and (Internal) Islamophobia from Preeclampsia and Presumed Incompetent to Pandemic Tenure
64 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 15 (2021)
Climate Cages: Connecting Migration, the Carceral State, Extinction Rebellion, and the Coronavirus through Cicero and 21 Savage
65 LOYOLA LAW REVIEW 1 (2020)
IRENA at 10: Post-Paris Energy Transitions and Energy Diplomacy Beyond OPEC, the Energy Charter Treaty, and the Coronavirus
11 SAN DIEGO JOURNAL CLIMATE & ENERGY LAW 45 (2020)
Faith-Based Approaches to Ecological Harmony and Environmental Protection
21 RUTGERS RACE & THE LAW REVIEW 2 (2020)
Recognizing the Role of Religion in Environmental Legal Norms
32 ST. THOMAS LAW REVIEW 24 (2020)
“Mask Off” – The Coloniality of Environmental Justice
25 WIDENER LAW REVIEW 193 (2019)
Energy for Metropolis
73 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW 258 (2018)
Resiliency and Responsive Regulation for Advanced Biofuels
36 VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENAL LAW JOURNAL 40 (2018)
Blood Biofuels
27 DUKE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY FORUM 265 (2017)
The Baseline Bar
60 KANSAS LAW REVIEW 579 (2017)
Trust or Bust: Complications with Tribal Trust Obligations and Environmental Sovereignty
41 VERMONT LAW REVIEW 799 (2017)
A Primer: Air and Water Environmental Quality Standards in the United States
40 WILLIAM & MARY ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY REVIEW 115 (2016) (with Jason Czarnezki and Siu Tip Lam)
Billionaires, Birds, and Environmental Brawls: Reconceptualizing Energy Easements
6 WASHINGTON & LEE JOURNAL OF ENERGY, CLIMATE & THE ENVIRONMENT 3 (2015)
The International Sugar Trade and Sustainable Development: Curtailing the Sugar Rush
39 NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & COMMERCIAL REGULATION 675 (2014)
A National Mineral Policy as an International Investment Law Stratagem: The Case of Tajikistan’s Gold Reserves
27 PACIFIC MCGEORGE GLOBAL BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT LAW JOURNAL 1 (2014)
“Turn on the Lights” – Sustainable Energy Investment and Regulatory Policy: Charting the Hydrokinetic Path in Pakistan
5 WASHINGTON & LEE JOURNAL OF ENERGY, CLIMATE & THE ENVIRONMENT 165 (2014)
The Islamic Influence in (Pre-)Colonial and Early America: A Historico-Legal Snapshot
12 SEATTLE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL JUSTICE 913 (2014)
The Tropics Exploited: Risk Preparedness and Corporate Social Responsibility in Offshore Energy Development
1 TEXAS A&M LAW REVIEW 335 (2013)
Missouri Oil & Gas Update
19 TEXAS WESLEYAN LAW REVIEW 391 (2013)
Book Chapters
The Baseline Bar for a Net Zero Energy Future: Case Study of the “No Action” Alternative in the United States.
in Natural Resources Law and Policy for a Net-Zero Energy Future: Addressing Sovereignty, Solidarity and Security Dimensions of Law Carbon Initiatives (Oxford University Press) (2023)
Transnational Energy Law Regimes and Systems Dynamics: Calibrating the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Energy Charter Treaty
in Resilience in Energy, Infrastructure and Natural Resources Law: Defining Legal Pathways for Sustainability in Times of Disruption (Oxford University Press) (2022)
Resolving Natural Resource Conflicts as a Path to Peace
in Lawyers as Change makers: The Emergence of the International Integrative Law Movement (American Bar Association) (2017)
Monsoons, Hydropower, and Climate Justice in Pakistan’s River Communities
in Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges (Environmental Law Institute) (2016) (with Mushtaq Bilal)
Financial Incentives for Wetland Protection and Restoration
in The Wetland Book: Structure and Functions, Management and Methods (Springer) (2016)
Meta-Regulation for Environmental Monitoring and Corporate Sustainability Reporting
in Corporate Responsibility & Sustainable Development: the nexus of private and public interests (Routledge) (2015)
Construction and Application of Supreme Court’s Holding in Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd., 130 S. Ct. 2869, 177 L. Ed. 2d 535 (2010) that Section 10(b) (15 U.S.C.A. § 78j(b)) Reaches use of Manipulative or Deceptive Device or Contrivance Only in Connection with Purchase or Sale of Security Listed on an American Stock Exchange, and Purchase or Sale of any other Security in United States
92 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 133 (2015) (with Daniel Klein)
Necessity and Sufficiency of Environmental Impact Statements under § 102(2)(c) of National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C.A. § 4332(2)(c)) Concerning Climate Change
85 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 1 (2014)
Tradition v. Modernity in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on Broken Column and Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters
in On the Road to Baghdad, or Traveling Bi-Cultural Approach to World Fiction (New Academia) (2005)
Book Reviews
Re-Reading Anita Bernstein's The Common Law Inside the Female Body from the Bottom of the Well: Analysis of the Central Park Five, Border Drownings, the Kavanaugh Confirmation, and the Coronavirus
BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENT (2020)
International Environmental Law and the Global South
110 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 617 (2016)
Gauging the Gender Divide in the Middle East’s Educational System: Causes, Concerns, and the Legal Impetus for Change
15 Journal of Religion & Society 1 (2013)
Online Scholarly Publications
Dam-Racing in South Asia: The Environmental Disasters Waiting to Happen (Part 3)
Vermont Journal of Environmental Law Ecoperspectives, May 2, 2019
Reassessing Climate Justice and Energy Security Between India and Pakistan: The Curious Case of the Kalabagh Dam (Part 2)
Vermont Journal of Environmental Law Ecoperspectives, April 25, 2019
Considering Climate Risks and the Indus Waters Treaty in the 2019 India-Pakistan Showdown (Part 1)
Vermont Journal of Environmental Law Ecoperspectives, March 19, 2019
Other Legal and Academic Articles
High Speed Public Policy for Algae-Based Biofuel as a Viable Energy Alternative: Improving Florida-China Relations through Sustainable Collaboration
30 INTERNATIONAL LAW QUARTERLY, vol. 1 (2012)
Geo-Politics and Women’s Bodies from the Perspective of the South Asian Diaspora
22 INTERNATIONAL LAW QUARTERLY, vol. 3 (2007)
Cracking India: Cultural and Religious Representations in Indo-Anglian Literature (1947 to Present)
Department of Comparative Literature & Classics, California State University, Long Beach, GENRE, vol. 22 (2001)
Works in Progress
Military Climate Emissions
Evacuation Waves
Machine Learning, Drones, and Satellite Imagery for Natural Disasters
Op-Eds
Common Dreams, April 23, 2021
Tampa Bay Times, August 7, 2020
Washington Post, March 15, 2019