Faculty Scholarship Repository
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Publications For Rhett Larson
BOOKS
- Day Zero: How Cities Run Out of Water (Cambridge University Press) (forthcoming 2026)
- A Research Agenda for Water Law (Vanessa Casado Pérez & Rhett Larson eds., Edward Elgar 2023)
- Just Add Water: Solving the World's Problems Using Its Most Precious Resource (Oxford University Press 2020)
- Waters and Water Rights (4th ed., Lexis/Nexis) (co-author with Robert Beck et al.) (forthcoming)
- Water Markets in The Water Diplomacy Handbook (Shafiqul Islam et al. eds., Routledge) (forthcoming)
- Introduction (and Conclusions) to A Research Agenda for Water Law in A Research Agenda for Water Law (Vanessa Casado Pérez & Rhett Larson eds., Edward Elgar 2023) (co-author with Vanessa Casado Pérez)
- Water and Security in Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law (Michael Faure ed., Edward Elgar 2021)
- Forestry Management and Water Law: Comparing Ecuador and Arizona in Legal Perspectives on Bridging Science and Policy (Mara Tignino et al. eds., Routledge 2020) (co-author with Andrés MartÃnez Moscoso)
- The Human Right to Water in Water Science, Policy and Management: A Global Challenge (Simon J. Dadson et al. eds., Wiley 2020) (co-author with Kelsey Leonard et al.)
- Inter-Jurisdictional Water Allocation in Federal Systems: Lessons for International Water Law in Research Handbook on International Water Law (Stephen McCaffrey et al. eds., Edward Elgar 2019) (co-author with A. Dan Tarlock)
- Global Climate Change and the Reallocation of Water in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science (H.H. Shugart et al. eds., Oxford University Press 2019)
- Quantifying Winters Rights, 48 William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review 659 (2024)
- Introduction: Water Equity and Prior Appropriation in the West, 33 Western Legal History 2 (2023)
- Water insecurity in the Global North: A review of experiences in U.S. colonias communities along the Mexico border, 9 WIREs Water e1595 (2022) (co-author with Amber Wutich et al.)
- Advancing Water Security in Colonias, 54 Arizona State Law Journal 853 (2022) (co-author with Dylan Hendel)
- Governing Complexity: Integrating Science, Governance, and Law to Manage Accelerating Change in the Globalized Commons, 118 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences e2102798118 (2021) (co-author with Barbara Cosens et al.)
- The UN General Assembly Resolution on the Human Right to Water a Decade Later, 27 Iuris Dictio 21 (2021)
- Water Law and the Response to COVID-19, 45 Water International 716 (2020)
- Water Slices and Water Lumps, 87 University of Chicago Law Review Online 1 (2020)
- Forestry Management and Water Law: Comparing Ecuador and Arizona, 44 Water International 337 (2019) (co-author with Andrés Martinez Moscoso)
- Fracking and Transboundary Water Management, 36 Environmental and Planning Law Journal 502 (2019)
- The Energy/Water/Food Nexus -- An Introduction, 59 Jurimetrics 1 (2018) (co-author with Diana Bowman et al.)
- Colorado River Lessons for International Water Law, 59 Jurimetrics 83 (2018)
- Overcoming Constitutional Obstacles to the Resolution of General Stream Adjudications, 8 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 52 (2018)
- New Water for Water Dispute Resolution, 4 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 193 (2018)
- Water Security, 112 Northwestern University Law Review 139 (2017)
- Inter-State Water Law in the United States of America, 2 Brill Research Perspectives in International Water Law 1 (2017)
- Law in the Time of Cholera, 92 Notre Dame Law Review 1271 (2017)
- Unclouding Arizona’s Water Future, 49 Arizona State Law Journal 465 (2017) (co-author with Brian Payne)
- Governing Water Augmentation Under the U.N. Watercourse Convention, 41 Water International 866 (2016)
- Bankrupt Rivers, 49 U.C. Davis Law Review 1335 (2016) (co-author with Kelly Kennedy)
- Augmented Water Law, 48 Texas Tech Law Review 757 (2016)
- Adapting Human Rights, 26 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 1 (2015)
- Interstitial Federalism, 62 UCLA Law Review 908 (2015)
- The Case of Canadian Bulk Water Exports, Canadian Global Affairs Institute Policy Paper (2015)
- The U.N. Watercourse Convention and Technological Innovation, 1 International Law Journal of London 221 (2014)
- The New Right in Water, 70 Washington & Lee Law Review 2181 (2014)
- Reconciling Food and Energy Security, 48 University of Richmond Law Review 929 (2014)
- Orphaned Pollution, 45 Arizona State Law Journal 991 (2013)
- Innovation and International Commons: The Case of Desalination under International Law, 2012 Utah Law Review 759 (2012)
- Water, Worship, and Wisdom: Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the Human Right to Water, 19 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law 43 (2012)
- Holy Water and Human Rights: Indigenous Peoples' Religious Rights Claims to Water Resources, 2 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 81 (2011)