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Albany Law’s Keith Hirokawa and Cinnamon Carlarne Ranked Among Nation’s Top Environmental Law Scholars

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Albany Law School Distinguished Professor of Law Keith Hirokawa and President and Dean Cinnamon P. Carlarne have been recognized among the top environmental law scholars in the country, according to data from HeinOnline, one of the world’s leading legal research platforms.

HeinOnline, an online research platform, highlights the scholarly impact of ABA-accredited law schools by identifying the most-cited authors within 25 major legal subject areas. On this year’s list, Professor Hirokawa ranked 71st and President and Dean Carlarne ranked 95th among the 100 most-cited environmental law scholars nationwide, reflecting the national reach and impact of their work on climate change, land use, and environmental governance.

For each subject, citation and usage data are drawn exclusively from HeinOnline articles that are assigned one or more PathFinder Subjects mapped to that category. HeinOnline the uses its ScholarRank formula, applied separately for each subject, to produce a top 100 list of influential authors.

Earth Sciences, Environmental Science, and Land and Resource Use were the PathFinder subjects applied to determine the top environmental scholars. 

Keith H. Hirokawa

Hirokawa’s recent work includes : 

  • The Inevitability of Local Environmental Law, 36 Fordham Environmental Law Review 218 (2025) (with Cinnamon P. Carlarne & Lauren VanWagoner).
  • Living the Good Life in the Anthropocene, 54 Environmental Law Reporter 10857 (2024) (with Karrigan Börk, Karen Bradshaw, Rebecca Bratspies, Cinnamon P. Carlarne, Bruce Carpenter, Robin Kundis Craig, Sarah Fox, Josh Galperin, Francis Hicks, Kevin Lynch, Ruhan S. Nagra, Michele Okoh, Jessica Owley, Amber Polk, Melissa Powers, Shannon Roesler, J.B. Ruhl, Danielle Stokes & Anastasia Telesetsky).
  • Race, Space and Place: Interrogating Whiteness Through a Critical Approach to Place, 29 WILLIAM & MARY JOURNAL OF RACE, GENDER, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 279 (2023)
  • Mapping Ecosystem Benefit Flows to Normalize Equity, 54 ARIZONA ST. L. J. 819 (with Cinnamon P. Carlarne, Karrigan S. Börk, & Sonya Ziaja) (2023)
  • A Grand Strategy for Climate Change: Embedding Dominance or Enabling Disruption?, 84 Ohio St. L. J. Online 1 (With Cinnamon Carlarne) (2023)
  • The New Law of Geology: Rights, Responsibilities, and Geosystem Services, 52 ENVTL. L. REP. 10380 (2022).
  • The World is My Oyster and Other Tales of Domination: The Critique from Ecosystem Services, 49 ECOLOGY LAW CURRENTS 1 (2022).
Cinnamon P. Carlarne

Carlarne’s recent work includes:

  • Climate Courage: The Remaking of Environmental Law, 41 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 125 (2022) (reprinted in Land Use and Environmental Law Review, 2024-2025 Edition).
  • The Climate Haven, 85 Ohio State Law Journal 1251 (2025) (with Keith H. Hirokawa).
  • Environmental Geography and Law: Toward a Synthesis, 99 Tulane Law Review 811 (2025) (with Michaela Anang-Hadjicostandi, Sophia Borgias, Karrigan Börk, Ann M. Eisenberg, Guadalupe M. Franco, Keith H. Hirokawa, Jonathan London, Melinda Morgan, Jessica Owley, Shannon Roesler & Sonja Ziaja).
  • The Climate Moratorium, 11 TEX A&M L. REV. 365  (with Keith H. Hirokawa) (2024)
  • Climate Dominance, 35 GEORGETOWN ENV. L. REV. 485 (with Keith H. Hirokawa) (2024).
  • Disrupting Dominance, 56 Connecticut Law Review 133 (2023) (with Keith H. Hirokawa)
  • Climate Law Leaps, 108 IOWA L. REV. ONLINE 70  (2023) (with Keith H. Hirokawa)
  • The Acceleration of Climate Creep: The Court Crashes, Congress Surges, Comment, 52 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 10778   (2022) (featured article of the month).
  • The Possibility of Radical Change in Transnational Environmental Law, 11 TRANSNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 3  (2022) (with Thijs Etty, Josephine van Zeben Anna Huggins, Leslie-Anne Duvic Paoli, Bruce Huber).
  • Climate Creep, 52 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 10374  (June 2022) (featured article of the month)

Only authors that have an ABA-approved law school designated as their institutional affiliation on their HeinOnline Author Profile Page qualify for inclusion in this ranking. In addition, only the author’s articles that contain PathFinder Subjects mapped to the relevant ranking subject are counted. 

William S. Hein & Co., Inc. has been serving the library community since the 1920s by publishing books, producing microfiche, and, now in the digital age, creating multidisciplinary databases that go beyond just law—gathering reputable primary and secondary sources from around the world to make research easier for students, faculty, librarians, attorneys, governments, organization, and individuals of all skill levels.