Kim Diana Connolly
Associate Professor of Law
Department of Clinical Legal Studies
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Contact Information
Room 131 (Clinic)
Room 306 (Faculty)
USC School of Law
701 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
v 803-777-6880
f 803-777-3401
connolly@sc.edu
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Scholarship
Publications
Books and Chapters
Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems, editor, (forthcoming, Ashgate Press Ecology and the Law series)
Marine Ecosystem Protection, in Ocean and Coastal Law (forthcoming 2006, American Bar Association)
Wetlands Law and Policy: Understanding Section 404, co-editor (with Stephen M. Johnson and Douglas R. Williams) (American Bar Association, 2005), including two chapters: The Corps Administrative Appeal Process and Federal Wetlands Regulation: An Overview (with Douglas R. Williams)
The supplement to Wetlands Law and Policy: Understanding Section 404, is available at http://www.abanet.org/abastore/front_end/static/nosearch/watersuppp001-017.pdf
Mirror, Mirror: Using Non-traditional Reflective Exercises, in Teaching the Law School Curriculum, 2004
Articles and Other Publications:
The Empty Promises of United States Wetland Mitigation Policy, Wetlands Ecology and Mgmt. ___ (forthcoming late 2007)
Survey Says: Army Corps No Scalian Despot, 37 Env'l Law Reporter 10317 (May 2007)
Can Happy Subjects Have An Enlightened Despot? Customer Satisfaction Among Army Corps Permit Applicants, 29 National Wetlands Newsletter 8 (May-June 2007)
Any Hope for Happily Ever After? Reflections on Rapanos and the Future of the Clean Water Act Section 404 Program (Vt. Land Use Inst. and Vt. J. Envtl. L. 2007), available at www.vjel.org/books/PUBS10004.html
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: Assessment of International Designations Within the United States, (with Royal C. Gardner), 37 Env'l Law Reporter 10089 (Feb. 2007)
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: Assessment of International Designations Within the United States, (with Royal C. Gardner), 29 National Wetlands Newsletter 6 (March-April 2007)
Bridging the Divide: Considerations of Public and Private Interests in Coastal Marshes and Marsh Islands, 15 Southeastern Environmental L.J. 1 (2006)
Shifting Interests: Rethinking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Permitting Process and Public Interest Review in Light of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, 32 Thurgood Marshall L.R. 109 (Fall 2006)
The Ecology of Breastfeeding, 13 Southeastern Environmental L.J. 157 (2005)
Looking to Local Law: Can Local Ordinances Help Protect Isolated Wetlands? 27 National Wetlands Newsletter 21 (May-June 2005)
“Grandfathered” Air Pollution Sources and Pollution Control: New Source Review Under the Clean Air Act", with Victor B. Flatt, Center for Progressive Regulation White Paper 504, (2005), available at http://www.progressiveregulation.org/articles/NSR_504.pdf
Keeping Wetlands Wet: Are Existing Protections Enough?, Vermont Law School Environmental L.J., Vol. 6, 2004-2005, available at http://www.vjel.org/articles/articles/connolly.htm
Environmental Justice, South Carolina Conservation Briefing Book, 2004, available at http://www.conservationvotersofsc.org/SC_Conservation_Briefing_Book.pdf
Recent Developments in Federal Wetlands Law and Policy Leave Significant Areas Unprotected, 4 E2SC: Environmental Excellence in South Carolina 14 (2004), available at http://www.iopa.sc.edu/e2sc/Archives/E2SCv4n4.pdf
A Retrospective on Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council: Implications for Public Policy for the 21st Century, with Dana Beach, M.B.A., 12 Southeastern Environmental L.J. 1 (2003)
Small Town Trash: A Model Comprehensive Solid Waste Ordinance for Rural Areas of the United States, 53 Catholic U. L. Rev. 1 (2003)
An Introduction to the Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) Consultation Process for the South Atlantic Area, 11 Southeastern Environmental L.J. 1 (2003)
Elucidating the Elephant: Interdisciplinary Law School Classes, 11 Wash. U. J. of Law and Policy 11 (2003)
Mirror, Mirror: Using Non-traditional Reflective Exercises, The Law Teacher, Fall 2001 (selected included as subchapter Teaching the Law Curriculum, 2004)
Has the Field Grown Too Complex for a State-Specific “Handbook” on Environmental Law?, A Book Review of the Government Institute's South Carolina Environmental Law Handbook, Third Edition (2000), 9 S.C. Envtl L.J. 279 (2001)
Four Chapters (The Corps Regulatory Program: Section 404 Permits and Section 10 Permits; Essential Fish Habitat Consultation; The Endangered Species Act; The National Environmental Policy Act) in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Environmental Laws and Regulations Manual (2001)
“Streamlined” Permits, Migratory Birds and Draining Ditches – Recent Developments Confirm Need to Amend Statutory Wetlands Protection, 22 Coastal Society Journal 16 (2000)
Wise Replacements for NWP 26, with Virginia S. Albrecht, National Wetlands Newsletter, September-October 1998
How to Handle Litigation of a Patent – DEFENSES, with John Sweeney, The Licensing Journal, Fall and Winter, 1992
LIVING WITHOUT THE BASICS - The Hidden Water and Wastewater Crisis in Rural North Carolina, with Eric J. Stockton, May 1990, (quoted on the front page of the New York Times on July 2, 1990, and featured on World Monitor and Stateline)
STOVALL STINKS: An Example of the Wastewater Disposal Crisis Facing Rural America, with Bruce B. Taylor, May 1990
Directory of Water, Wastewater, Groundwater, and Solid Waste Resources for Rural Communities, with Bruce B. Taylor, January 1990
In Progress:
The Essential Environmental Lawyer's Guide to Managing the Mass Media (co-authoring with Sonya Forte Duhé) (forthcoming 2008, American Bar Association)
Wetlands Law and Policy: Understanding Section 404, co-editor (with Stephen M. Johnson & Douglas R. Williams) (American Bar Association, second edition anticipated ready for editing 2008)
Embracing Enlightened Despotism: Reexamining the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Public Interest Review (in draft, to be completed summer 2007, will also serve as LL.M. thesis project under the supervision of Arnold Reitze, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and Director of the Environmental Law Program, George Washington University School of Law)
Satisfied Clientele: A Detailed Analysis of Corps' Customer Service Surveys, with Mark Tompkins, Ph.D., Univ. of S. Carolina Political Science Department (in progress)
Regulatory Pathfinder (in progress, funded with grant from the South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, to be completed August 2007)
The United States Army Corps of Engineers Administrative Appeals Process: Assessment and Recommendations (in progress)
Proof that Something's Fishy: Use of DNA Evidence in Fisheries Enforcement, with John Mark Dean, Ph.D., Bert Ely, Ph.D., and Eric Thelen, Ph.D. (in progress)
Integrating Practical and Real-World Methodologies into Traditional Legal Classrooms: An Annotated Bibliography (completed, seeking publisher)
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