Hannah Wiseman

Hannah Wiseman, an Assistant Professor at the Florida State University College of Law, received an A.B. from Dartmouth College (summa cum laude) and her J.D. from Yale Law School. Professor Wiseman researches governance challenges at the intersection of land use, energy, and environmental law, and she has explored these issues in the shale gas context since 2008, when she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Texas School of Law. Her work has surveyed and compared the content of regulations in more than sixteen states that host shale oil and gas activity or soon will; she also has collected and begun to analyze enforcement data from well sites around the country. Her forthcoming papers in this area are theoretical, asking why agencies often fail to recognize that changes in scale, as opposed to technology, should trigger regulatory response, and whether states actually serve as regulatory laboratories. Professor Wiseman’s articles have been published in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, the Emory Law Journal (co-authored), the Columbia Law Review Sidebar, Natural Gas & Electricity, the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, and the Illinois Law Review (co-authored, forthcoming) among others. Her most recent articles on shale gas development are forthcoming in the Boston University Law Review and the University of Colorado Law Review.