Shi-Ling Hsu

Professor

B.S.E.E. (Columbia); J.D. (Columbia.); M.S. (Ecology, University of California, Davis); Ph.D. (Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis)

Tel: 604.822.2870
Fax: 604.822.8108
E-mail: hsu@law.ubc.ca
Office Location: Allard Hall, room 468

Personal Web Page: http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/hsu

Profile

Shi-Ling Hsu joined the faculty of law as Associate Professor in 2004.  Professor Hsu has also been an Associate Professor at George Washington University where he taught courses in Environmental Law, Law and Economics and Property. Prior to his academic career, Professor Hsu was Senior Attorney and Economist for the Environmental Law Institute in Washington D.C; Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco; and practiced law with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, California.

Professor Hsu has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, a J.D., from Columbia Law School, and a M.S. in Ecology and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics, both from the University of California, Davis.

Courses

• Canadian Environmental Law
• Topics in Environmental Law
• Natural Resources Law
• Quantitative Methods in Law

Research Fields

• Environmental Law
• Comparative and International Environmental Law
• Law and Economics
• Property

Representative Published Works

• The Politics and Psychology of Gasoline Taxes: an Empirical Study, 15 Widener L. Rev. 363 (2010).
• British Columbia [Climate Change Policy and Law], ch. 5 in The Law of Climate Change (Canada Law Books, Mahoney, D, ed., 2010) (with Tony Crossman).
• Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada: Constitutional and Policy Dimensions, 54 McGill L.J. 463 (2009) (with Robin Elliot).
• Review: The Reality of Carbon Taxes in the 21st Century, 54 Tax Notes International 399 (2009).
• Psychological Barriers to Gasoline Taxation,Ch. 15 in Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation, Vol. VI (2009).
• Saving Lives Through Administrative Law and Economics: A Response, 157 U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 200 (2009).
• Pollution Tax Heuristics: an Empirical Study of Willingness to Pay Higher Gasoline Taxes, 36 Energy Policy 3612 (2008) (with Joshua Walters and Anthony Purgas).
• A Realistic Evaluation of Climate Change Litigation Through the Lens of a Hypothetical Lawsuit, 79 U. Colo. L. Rev. 701 (2008).
• Some Quasi-Behavioral Arguments for Environmental Taxation, Ch. 2 in Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation, Vol. V (2008).
• The Identifiability Bias in Environmental Law, 35 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 433 (2008).
• Litigating Canada-U.S. Transboundary Harm: International Lawmaking and the Threat of Reciprocity, 48 Va. J. Intl. L. 1 (2007) (with Austen Parrish).
• Sustainable Development and the Law: People, Environment, and Culture (Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, 2006, co-edited with Patrick Molinari).
• Why We Can Do Better Than New Source Review, 3(8) Economists' Voice, 5 (2006).
• The Real Problem With New Source Review, 36 Envtl. L. Rep. 10095 (2006).
• What's Old is New: The Problem With New Source Review, 29 Regulation 36 (2006). 
• What IS a Tragedy of the Commons? Overfishing and the Campaign Spending Problem69 Albany L. Rev. 75 (2005).
• On the Role of Cost-benefit Analysis in Environmental Law, 31 Envtl. L. 135 (2005).
• Fairness Versus Efficiency in Environmental Law, 31 Ecology L.Q. 303 (2004).
• A Two-Dimensional Framework of Property Rights Regimes, 36 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 813 (2003).
• A Game-Theoretic Approach to Regulatory Negotiation and a Framework for Empirical Analysis, 26 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 33 (2002).
• A Defense of Cost-Benefit Analysis for Natural Resource Policy, 32 Envtl. L. Rep. 10239 (2002) (with John Loomis).
• Reducing Emissions from the Electricity Generating Industry: Can We Finally Do It? 14 Tulane Envtl. L. J. 427 (2001).
• The Potential and the Pitfalls of Habitat Conservation Planning Under the Endangered Species Act, 29 Envtl. L. Rep. 10592 (Oct 1999)
• The External Damage Costs of Direct Noise From Motor Vehicles, 1 J. Transportation and Statistics 1 (Jan 1999).
• Ecosystem Management and the 1996 Sustainable Fisheries Act, 24 Ecology L.Q. 799 (1997) (with J. Wilen).
• The Uncertain Air Quality Impacts of Automobile Retirement Programs, 1444 Transportation Research Record 90 (1994) (with D. Sperling).

Publications listed on the UBC Law Library Faculty Research Publications Database