Anthony Moffa joined the University of Maine School of Law as a Visiting Associate Professor in the fall of 2016. He writes and teaches in the fields of administrative law, criminal law, property law, and international law, with a particular emphasis on the treatment of the environment.

Prior to joining the Maine Law faculty, Professor Moffa served in the General Counsel’s office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  He also clerked for Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and Judge Kermit Lipez on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Portland.

Professor Moffa graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a law degree from Yale Law School. When not in his office thinking about the law or the environment, he can be found outdoors, most likely thinking about music or food.

Selected Publications:

Environmens Rea, 122 PENN ST. L. REV. 299 (2018). [PENN]

The Oil Sands of Time: Pipelines and Promises, 22 OCEAN & COASTAL L.J. 111 (2017). [PDF]

Traditional Ecological Rulemaking, 35 STAN. ENVTL. L.J. 102 (2016). [STANFORD]

Freedom from the Costs of Trade: A Principled Argument Against Dormant Commerce Clause Scrutiny of Goods Movement Policies, 21 NYU ENVTL. L. J. 344 (2014) (with Stephanie L. Safdi). [NYU]

Wasting the Planet: What a Storied Doctrine of Property Brings to Bear on Environmental Law and Climate Change, 27 J. ENVTL. L. & LITIG. 459 (2012). [YALE]


Why Climate Change Collective Action has Failed and What Needs to be Done Within and Without the Trade Regime, 15 J. INT’L. ECON. L. 777 (2012) (with Daniel C. Esty). [JIEL]

Two Competing Models of Activism, One Goal: A Case Study of Anti-Whaling Campaigns in the Southern Ocean, 37 YALE J. INT’L. L. 201 (2012). [YALE]