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Publications

Articles

Beyond Localism: Harnessing State Adaptation Lawmaking to Facilitate Local Climate Resilience, 8 Mich. J. Envtl. & Admin. L. 185 (2018).

Sink or Swim: In Search of a Model for Coastal City Climate Change Resilience, 40 Columbia J. Envtl. L. 433 (2015).

A Response to the IPCC Fifth Assessment, 45 Envt’l L. Rep. 10027 (2015), with Deepa Badrinarayana, Cinnamon Carlarne, Robin Kundis Craig, John C. Dernbach, Keith H. Hirokawa, Alexandra B. Klass, Katrina Fischer Kuh, Stephen R. Miller, Jessica Owley, Shannon Roesler, Jonathan Rosenbloom, Inara Scott, and David Takacs. Article

A Three-Legged Stool on Two Legs: Recent Federal Law Related to Local Climate Resilience Planning And Zoning, 47 Urb. Law. 525 (2015), with Edward Thomas.

Of Old Dogs and New Tricks—Can Law Schools Really Fix Students' Fixed Mindsets?, 19 J. Legal Writing 3 (2014). Additional

On the Waterfront: New York City's Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Challenge (Part 2 of 2), 25 Envtl. L. in N.Y. 101 (May 2014).

On the Waterfront: New York City's Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Challenge (Part 1 of 2), 25 Envtl. L. in N.Y. 81 (April 2014).

Of Old Dogs and New Tricks—Can Law Schools Really Fix Students' Fixed Mindsets?, 19 J. Legal Writing 3 (2014).

Book Chapters

Planning and Zoning Within the Coastal Zone, in American Law Of Zoning, 6th edition (West, ed. Patricia Salkin) (2017).

Taming the Super-Wicked Problem of Waterfront Hazard Mitigation Planning: The Role of Municipal Communication Strategies, in Contemporary Issues In Climate Change Law And Policy: Essays Inspired By The Ipcc (Environmental Law Institute, eds. Robin Kundis Craig & Stephen Miller) (2016).

Essays

The WUI, the Waterfront, and the Wicked Problem of Planning and Zoning for Climate Resilience, 41 Zoning & Planning Law Reports 1 (Oct. 2018). 

Reed as Applied: The Sign Apocalypse or a Bump in the Road, 39 Zoning & Planning Law Reports 1 (July/Aug. 2016).

Land Use Law Update: Is the Tide Turning Toward Municipal Liability for Failure to Adapt to Climate Change?, 30 Municipal Lawyer 25 (Winter/Spring 2016).

Land Use Law Update: Reed v. Town of Gilbert Redux, 29 Municipal Lawyer 39 (Fall 2015). https://works.bepress.com/sarah_adams-schoen/14/

Land Use Law Update: The 2015 Mid-Year Roundup, 29 Municipal Lawyer 27 (Spring/Summer 2015).

Land Use Law Update: Will Reed v. Town of Gilbert Require Municipalities Throughout the Country to Rewrite Their Sign Codes?, 29 Municipal Lawyer 16 (Winter 2015).

Municipal Liability for Failure to Adapt to Climate Change? Not Yet, The Suffolk Lawyer (Suffolk Co. Bar Ass’n newsletter), at 17, 31 (Nov. 2015), reprinted with revisions as Land Use Law Update: Is the Tide Turning Toward Municipal Liability for Failure to Adapt to Climate Change?, 30 Municipal Lawyer 25 (Winter 2016).

Land Use Law Update: New York’s New Climate Change Resiliency Law, 28 Municipal Lawyer 4 (Fall 2015).

Land Use Law Update: Land Use Law Update: The Court of Appeals Issues a Victory for Home Rule in Wallach v. Town of Dryden and Cooperstown Holstein Corp. v. Town of Middlefield, 28 Municipal Lawyer 43 (Summer 2014), with Maureen Liccione.

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: A Local Solution to a Global Problem, 28 Municipal Lawyer 4 (Winter 2014).

Media

Podcast interview, Local Governments and Climate Resilience featuring Sarah Adams-Schoen, Conversations with the Legal Academy (July 9, 2018).

Other

Podcast interview, Local Governments and Climate Resilience featuring Sarah Adams-Schoen, Conversations with the Legal Academy (July 9, 2018).

Model Zoning Code, Small- and Medium-Wind Energy Model Code (Annotated), funded by the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (2016).

Annotated bibliography, Essential Readings in United States Environmental Criminal Law, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Essential Readings (2014).