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Joint appointment in Planning and Law
In his decades of teaching, Professor DiMento has written 11 books and taught courses on a wide variety of subjects, including urban and regional planning, domestic and international environmental law, administrative law and regulation, business and government, conflict resolution.
Professor DiMento recently stepped down as the director of UC Irvine's Newkirk Center for Science and Society, established in May 2001 with the goal of improving science's response to community needs and to increase the effective uses of scientific results for the benefit of society.
Expertise: Environmental law, international dispute resolution, urban planning
Prior Courses Taught: Environmental Law and Policy, International Legal Analysis, Domestic, Comparative and International Environmental Law, Management and Policy; Land Use and Development Control Law; Urban and Regional Planning; Administrative Law and Regulation; Business and Government; Conflict Resolution; Property Law, Land Use and Development Control Law, International Environmental Law
> Recent Publications
- Book: Environmental Governance of the Great Seas
- Daily Journal: Prof. DiMento on weapons regulation through treaty (PDF)
- Daily Journal: "When is a place a nation?" (PDF)
- The Orange County Register Opinion section: "Joseph Dimento: When is a place, a nation?"
- Daily Journal Perspective piece: "Death of Osama bin Laden: Could There Have Been a Trial?" (PDF)
- Daily Journal Perspective piece: "A Natural Peacemaking Opportunity" (PDF) with Carrie Menkel-Meadow
- I Diritti Umani Di Fronte Al Giudice Internazionale (Italian journal): "Extraordinary Rendition: Legal and Moral Considerations"
- Daily Journal column: "Climate Law Is Hot - But Is it Enough?" (PDF)
- Storia Urbana (Italian journal): "Urban Freeways: Three Different City Tales" (PDF)
- Prof. DiMento's Scholarly Papers on SSRN
Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Also: 212-E Social Ecology 1 building
jdimento@law.uci.edu
(949) 824-3034
- March 14, 2013: CLEANR Literature Series, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality at UCI Law
- Feb. 7, 2013: CLEANR Guest Speaker Kenneth Feinberg at UCI Law
- Nov. 8, 2012: CLEANR Guest Speaker Kent Syverud at UCI Law
- Nov. 1, 2012: CLEANR Literature Series: The Death and Life of Great American Cities at UCI Law
- Oct. 2, 2012: CLEANR Guest Speaker Joseph Sax at UCI Law
- Sept. 27, 2012: CLEANR Guest Speaker Dan Farber at UCI Law
- Feb. 7, 2012: CLEANR Guest Speaker Richard J. Lazarus at UCI Law
- Oct. 4, 2011: "Post 9/11: Science, Policy & Law", Beckman Center at UC Irvine
- March 4, 2011: "Enhancing the Future of the California Coast" symposium at UC Irvine
- Nov. 12, 2010: "Preserving the Environment of the Arctic Region" symposium at UC Irvine
- May 14, 2010: "Marine and Freshwater Conservation Law and Governance," day-long symposium at UC Irvine
- Feb. 10, 2010: Special briefing at UCI by Daniel Taub, Principal Deputy Legal Adviser of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Oct. 9, 2009: “Toward a Sustainable 21st Century,” day-long symposium
- Orange County Register: Prof. DiMento weighs in on disputed views in Laguna Beach
- Quotidiano Legale: Prof. DiMento on presidential election — The Swing States
- The Orange County Register: Prof. DiMento thinks U.S. military action in Libya was premature
- The Christian Science Monitor: Prof. DiMento on city highways razed to further development
- UCI feature and video: "Protecting the Planet"