- Phone:
- (812) 855-2426
- Email:
- dancole@indiana.edu
- Room Number:
- 410N
- Areas of Interest:
- Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Economics ,
- Property and Polish Law
Education
- J.S.D., Stanford Law School, 1996
- J.S.M., Stanford Law School, 1991
- J.D., Northwestern School of Law, 1986
- A.M., University of Chicago, 1981
- A.B., Occidental College, 1980
Courses
- Climate Law and Policy
- Environmental Law
- International Environmental Law
- Land Use
- Law and Economics
- Natural Resource Law
- Law and Public Policy
- Seminar in Property Theory
- Seminar in Institutional Analysis & Development
Biography
Professor Daniel H. Cole, an internationally recognized environmental law and economics scholar, joined Indiana University in 2011. He is the author or editor of 10 books and more than 50 articles, with works published in England, France, Italy, and China, as well as the United States. Cole's writings are at the intersection of the law, economics, and politics of property, natural resources law, land use, and environmental protection. He has also written extensively about Poland and Polish law.
In addition to being an award-winning teacher, Cole is a founding member of both the Midwest Law and Economics Association and the Society for Environmental Law and Economics. He has served as a visiting scholar on the faculties of Law and Land Economy at the University of Cambridge and is a life member of Clare Hall (College for Advanced Study) in Cambridge. In the fall of 2001, he was the John S. Lehmann Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. He has also been the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
Highlights
- Author of 10 books and more than 50 articles
- Member, executive board, Polish Studies Center
- Co-principal investigator, $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant
In the News
- "Judge Rules against County GMO Regulations," - Capital Press, August 28, 2014
- "Environmentalists Object to Bill Promoting Farm Rights" - The Indianapolis Star, January 13, 2014
- "Do You Believe in Sharing?" - Financial Times, August 30, 2013
- "I-69 Challenge May Be Hard to Win, IU Prof Says," - The Herald-Times, February 24, 2013
- Prof. Elinor Ostrom - BBC Radio, The Last Word, July 13, 2012
Selected Works
- “Environmental instrument choice in a non-linear world,” (with K.A. Paulson Gjerde, P.Z. Grossman), Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 8 (1): 65-78 (2019)
- “Institutional analysis for new public governance scholars,” (with E. Baldwin, T. Chen), Public Management Review, 21, 890-917 (2019)
- “The Many Deaths of Liberalism,” (with Aurelian Craiutu), AEON, (2018)
- “Law, Norms, and the IAD Framework,”Journal of Institutional Economics, February 28, 2017.
- Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy: Resource Governance, Volume 2 (co-edited with M. McGinnis), Lexington Books (2015)
- “Contextualizing the Influence of Social Norms, Collective Action on Social-Ecological Systems,” 2014, Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, 6, 259-264 (2014) (co-authored with Tom Evans).
- “The Law and Economics Approach to Property,” 2014, Property Law Review, 3, 212-221. (symposium issue on Research Methods in Property Law).
- “Digging Deeper into Hardin’s Pasture: The Complex Institutional Structure of ‘The Tragedy of the Commons,’” 2014, Journal of Institutional Economics, 10, 353-369 (2014) (co-authored with Graham Epstein and Michael McGinnis).
- “Learning from Lin: Lessons and Cautions from the Natural Commons for the Knowledge Commons, in Governing the Knowledge Commons 45-68 (B. Frischmann, M. Madison & K. Strandberg, eds, Oxford University Press 2014).
- Property in Land and Other Resources (co-edited with E. Ostrom). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2012.
- “Introduction,” (with E. Ostrom), “Chapter 2: The variety of property systems and rights in natural resources,” (with E. Ostrom), “Chapter 5: Property creation by regulation: rights to clean air and rights to pollute.” Principles of Law & Economics (with P. Z. Grossman). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004; New York: Wolters Kluwer/Aspen Publishers (2nd edition), 2011.