Markus G. Puder

Associate Professor of Law
First Legal State Examination, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany; Second Legal State Examination, Munich Upper Court of Appeals; LL.M.(Common Law Studies), Georgetown; Ph.D. in Law, Ludwig-Maximilians University; Member New York State Bar, U.S. Supreme Court Bar

Markus G. Puder serves as Associate Professor of Law at the Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans.  His teaching and research interests include Comparative, Civil, and Roman Law; Environmental and Energy Law; and Public International Law and the Law of the European Union.  He has previously been employed in the Environmental Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory (a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC), while holding lectureships at the Georgetown University Law Center and the George Washington University School of Law.  He has taught and spoken at the Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, Germany), Universidade Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Boğaziçi Üniversitesi (Istanbul, Turkey).  Other professional experiences include serving as Congressional Fellow with the U.S. House of Representatives, Law Clerk at the Oberlandesgericht München (Upper Regional Court of Munich, Germany), Assistant Lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Munich Law School, Germany), and Researcher in Residence at the University of Cape Town (Republic of South Africa).  In addition to speaking English, German, French, and Spanish, he has intermediate knowledge of Russian, Arabic, Portuguese, and Italian.  In his spare time, he is a concert violinist.

E-mail: mgpuder@loyno.edu
Office Phone: 504-861-5642

Publications

Articles (Selected):

• The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe: A Step in European Integration along Federal Lines—The F-Less Constitution (?), in Marshall J. Breger & Markus G. Puder (eds.), European Union Issues from a Portuguese Perspective 33 (Catholic University 2007).
• Preface, in Marshall J. Breger & Markus G. Puder (eds.), European Union Issues from a Portuguese Perspective 6 (Catholic University 2007).
• DOE funds New Study on U.S. Offsite Commercial Disposal of E&P Waste, Oil & Gas J. 37 (2006).
• Beer Wars—A Case Study: Is the Emerging European Private Law Civil or Common or Mixed or Sui Generis, 20 Tul. Eur. & Civil L.F. 38 (2005).
• Regulatory Requirements and Practices Governing Slurry Injection of Drilling Wastes, in Chin-fu Tsang & John A. Apps (eds.), Developments in Water Science 549 (Elsevier 2005).
• Tremors in the Cooperative Federalism Arena: What Happens When a State Wants to Pick and Choose (Seek Partial Program Approval) or Cut and Run (Return Program Primacy to the Federal Government) 24 Temp. Sci. Tech. & Envtl. L.J. 71 (2005).
• Overfiling in the Cooperative Federalism Balance—A Search Forever Incomplete and Incompletable, 29 Col. J. Envtl. L. 119 (2004).
• Constitutionalizing Government in the European Union: Europe’s New Institutional Framework under the Draft Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe, 11 Col. J. Eur. L. 77 (2005).
• Supremacy of the Law and Judicial Review in the European Union: Celebrating the Bicentennial of Marbury v. Madison with Costa v. ENEL, 36 Geo. Wash. Int’l L. Rev. 567 (2004).
• Constitutionalizing the European Union—More than a Sense of Direction from the Convention on the Future of Europe, 26 Ford. Int’l L.J. 1562 (2003).
• The Discrete Charm of Cooperative Federalism—Environmental Citizen Suits in the Balance, 27 Vt. L. Rev. 81 (2002).
• Salade Niçoise from Amsterdam Left-Overs—Does the Treaty of Nice Contain the Institutional Recipe to Ready the European Union for Enlargement, 8 Col. J. Eur. L. 53 (2002).
• The Grass Will Not Be Trampled Because the Tigers Need Not Fight—New Thoughts and Old Paradigms for Détente across the Taiwan Strait, 34 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 481 (2001).
• Sounds of Silence—What Happened to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Hazardous Waste Recycling Program Reform?, 10 Cornell J.L & Pub. Pol’y 95 (2000).
• Phantom Menace or New Hope—Member State Public Tort Liability after the Double-Bladed Light Saber Duel between the European Court of Justice and the German Bundesgerichtshof in Brasserie du Pêcheur, 33 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 311 (2000).
• Did the Eleventh Circuit Crack ‘Frac?’—Hydraulic Fracturing after the Court’s Landmark LEAF Decision, 18 Va. Envtl. L.J. 507 (1999).
• Trash, Ash, and the Phoenix—Fifth Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s City of Chicago Decision on Waste-to-Energy Combustion Ash, 26 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 473 (1999). 

Presentations (Selected):

• Is the Emerging European Private Law Civil or Common or Mixed or Sui Generis, Loyola University Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana (January 18, 2007).
• Options and Costs for Managing Offsite Exploration and Production Wastes, 13th International Petroleum Environmental Conference, San Antonio, Texas (October 18, 2006).
• Civil Law and Common Law in the Emerging European Private Law Narrative, Lucerne University, Lucerne, Switzerland (April 21, 2006).
• The National Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute (NELPI —Laboratory and Lever for Local, Regional, National, and International E2-Nexus Leadership, Tulsa University College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma (January 30, 2006).
• Options and Costs for Managing Offsite Exploration and Production Wastes, Ground Water Protection Council Annual Forum, Portland, Oregon (September 26, 2005).
• Oilfield Waste Technology and Regulation—A Workshop, Universidade Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (August 2-4, 2005).
• The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe: A Step in European Integration along Federal Lines—The F-Less Constitution (?), Fourth Conference on Portuguese and American Law, Columbus School of Law of The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC (March 29, 2005).
• Tremors in the Cooperative Federalism Arena: What Happens When a State Wants to Pick and Choose (Seek Partial Program Approval) or Cut and Run (Return Program Primacy to the Federal Government), Ground Water Protection Council Underground Injection Control Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana (January 18, 2005).
• Beer Wars —Is the Emerging European Private Law Civil or Common or Mixed or Sui Generis, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois (November 16, 2004).
• Constructing a Regulatory Module for a Web-Based Drilling Waste Management Information System (DWMIS), 11th International Petroleum Environmental Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico (October 13, 2004).
• Hydraulic Fracturing of Coalbed Methane Gas Reservoirs—A Serial Epic of Agency and Court Proceedings in Review, 11th International Petroleum Environmental Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico (October 12, 2004).
• Europe’s New Institutional Framework under the Draft Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe, The EU Constitutional Treaty Symposium and Roundtable, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia (March 26, 2004).
• Tremors in the Cooperative Federalism Arena: What Happens When a State Wants to Pick and Choose (Seek Partial Program Approval) or Cut and Run (Return Program Primacy to the Federal Government), Ground Water Protection Council Underground Injection Control Meeting, Houston, Texas (January 21, 2004).
• Overfiling: A Closer Look at a Federal Enforcement Tool in Light of Recent Litigation, 10th International Petroleum Environmental Conference, Houston, Texas (November 13, 2003).
• Regulatory Requirements and Practice Governing Slurry Injection of Drilling Wastes, Second International Underground Injection Science and Technology Symposium, Berkeley, California (October 22, 2003).
• Tremors in the Cooperative Federalism Arena: What Happens When a State Wants to Pick and Choose (Seek Partial Program Approval) or Cut and Run (Return Program Primacy to the Federal Government), Ground Water Protection Council Annual Forum, Niagara, New York (September 15, 2003).
• Supremacy of the Law and Judicial Review in the European Union: Celebrating the Bicentennial of Marbury v. Madison with Costa v. ENEL, Symposium Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Marbury v. Madison, The George Washington University Law School, Washington, District of Columbia (April 11, 2003).
• Constitutionalizing the European Union: More than a Sense of Direction from the Convention on the Future of Europe, McGill University Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada (January 27, 2003).
• Europe in Washington DC: From an American Legal Point of View, Europe and Lawyers at Georgetown, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia (January 15, 2003).
• Overfiling: Anatomy of a Federal Enforcement Tool, Ground Water Protection Council Annual Forum, San Francisco, California (September 24, 2002).
• Finality Visions: A Constitutional Convention for the European Union, Tulsa University College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma (February 4, 2002).
• End Games: The Finality Debate in the European Union, Loyola University Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana (November 5, 2001).
• Tides of Federalism: The Potential Implications of Bragg v. West Virginia Coal Association for the Balance between the Federal Government and the States under Selected Environmental Laws, Ground Water Protection Council Annual Forum, Reno, Nevada (September 25, 2001).
• European Union: Politics and the Law, Bosporus University, Istanbul, Turkey (May 17, 2001).
• Institutional Changes for the Growing European House: The Recent European Union Summit in Nice, Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (December 14, 2000).
• Global Legal Practice, Law Reunion Weekend, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia (October 21, 2000).
• Alabama/LEAF Case Roundtable Discussion, Ground Water Protection Council Annual Underground Injection Control Meeting, Houston, Texas (January 11, 2000).
• Hydraulic Fracturing in the Wake of the LEAF Litigation, Ground Water Protection Council Annual Meeting, Newport, Rhode Island (September 20, 1999).