Books or Treatises
W.H. Rodgers, Jr. Environmental Law Treatise, Vols. 1-4 (Thomson/West) (pocket parts, 8 books) 2006.
William H. Rodgers, Jr., J.C. Dupris & K.S. Hill, "The Si'Lailo Way: Indians, Salmon & Law on the Columbia River," Carolina Academic Press (2006).
William H. Rodgers, Jr., "Environmental Law in Indian Country," Thomson/West (2005).
William Rodgers, Scales of Justice: Salmon, Indians, Property, and Evolutionary History on the Columbia River, 2002 (book-length draft).
William Rodgers, Committee on Scientific and Technical Criteria for Federal Acquisition of Lands for Conservation, Board on Environmental Studies & Toxicology, Nat'l Research Council, Setting Priorities for Land Conservation (1993) (Prof. Rodgers was chair of the Committee).
William Rodgers, Some Theoretical Aspects of the American Environmental Law, published in Japanese (Seibundo, 1989), and translated by Kensuke Itoh.
William Rodgers, Four volume Treatise on Environmental Law, West Publishing Company 1986-1992, with semi-annual pocket parts.
William Rodgers, Cases and Materials on Energy and Natural Resources Law, 2nd edition, West Publishing Company, 847 pages (July 1983).
William Rodgers, Cases and Materials on Energy and Natural Resources Law, (West Pub. Co., 1979), 995 pp., with a Teachers' Manual, 102 pp.
William Rodgers, Hornbook on Environmental Law, West Publishing Company, 1977, Second Edition (1994) (with annual pocket part).
Book Chapters
William H. Rodgers, Jr., "The War of 'Clever Hans' on the Common Law of Environmental Law," in Creative Common Law Remedies for Protecting the Environment: A Practical Guide to Heroic Litigation (Denise Antolini & Cliff Rechtschaffen eds., Environmental Law Institute, Washington D.C., 2007).
William H. Rodgers, Jr., "The Tribes" in The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise (Dale Goble et al. eds., Island Press 2005).
William Rodgers, Law and Biology entry, in New Palgrave Dictionary on Economics and the Law (1998).
William Rodgers, "The Lesson of the Owl and the Crows," in The Neurotransmitter Revolution (Roger D. Masters & Michael T. McGuire eds.,Southern Illinois University Press 1994).
William Rodgers, The Sense of Justice: The Biological Foundations of Law, Ch. 8, Sage Publications, 1992 (Gruter Institute).
William Rodgers, Intuition, Altruism, and Spite: Justice as Justification, in R.D. Masters, M. Gruter, The Sense of Justice: The Biological Foundations of Law, ch. 8 (Sage Publications, Inc. 1992).
William Rodgers, "The Fox and the Chickens: Mr. Justice Douglas and Environmental Law," in He Shall Not Pass This Way Again: the Legacy of William O. Douglas (S.L. Wasby, ed., U. Pitt., 1991).
William Rodgers, "DDT: After the Sound and the Fury", in The Environmental Law Handbook 329-31 (Friends of the Earth/Ballantine Books, 1971).
Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews
William H. Rodgers, Jr., Tribal Governmental Roles in Environmental Federalism, ABA Section of Environment, Energy & Resources, 21 Natural Resources & Environment 3 (Winter 2007).
William H. Rodgers, Jr. et al., The Exxon Valdez Reopener: Natural Resources Damage Settlements and Roads Not Taken, 22 Alaska L. Rev. 135 (2005).
William H. Rodgers, Jr., Judicial Regrets and the Case of the Cushman Dam, 35 Envtl. L. 397 (2005).
William H. Rodgers, Jr., Treatment as Tribe, Treatment as State Getting the Treatment: The Penobscot Indians and the Clean Water Act, 55 Ala. L. Rev. 815 (2004).
William H. Rodgers, Jr., Improving Laws, Declining World The Tort of Contamination, 38 Val. U. L. Rev. 1249 (2004).
William H. Rodgers, Jr., Atlantic Salmon, Pacific Bound: Initiative, Defiance, Courage, and Indian Tribes in Environmental Law, 8 Ocean & Coast. L. J. 1 (2002).
William H. Rodgers, Jr., Growth and Form: Indian Tribes, Terrorism, and the Durability of Environmental Law, 26 Vt. L. Rev. 865 (2002).
William H. Rodgers, Jr., Defeating Environmental Law: Complexity and the Geology of Environmental Law, 19 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 687 (2002 Special Edition).
William H. Rodgers, Jr., Executive Orders and Presidential Commands: Presidents Riding to the Rescue of the Environment, 21 J. Land, Res. & Envtl. L.13 (2001).
William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Most Creative Moments in the History of Environmental Law: " The Whats", 2000 Ill. L. Rev. 1 (2000).
William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Myth of the Win-Win: Misdiagnosis in the Business of Reassembling Nature, 42 Ariz. L. Rev. 297 (2000).
William Rodgers, The Most Creative Moments in the History of Environmental Law: "The Whys," 39 Washburn L. J. 1 (1999).
William Rodgers, What a Salmon Czar Might Hope For, 74 Wash. L. Rev. 511 (1999).
William Rodgers, Defeating Environmental Law: The Geology of Legal Advantage, 15 Pace Envt'l L. Rev. 1 (1997).
William Rodgers, The Sense of Justice and The Justice of Sense: Native Hawaiian Sovereignty and the Second "Trial of the Century" 71 Wash. L. Rev. 379 (1996).
William Rodgers, Deception, Self-Deception, and Mythology: the Law of Salmon in the Pacific Northwest, 26 Pac. L. J. 821 (1995).
William Rodgers, Deception, Self-Deception, and Myth: Evaluating Long-Term Environmental Settlements, 29 U. Rich. L. Rev. 567 (1995).
William Rodgers, The Seven Statutory Wonders of U.S. Environmental Law: Origins and Morphology, 27 Loyola L.A. L. Rev. 1009 (1994), reprinted in An Environmental Law Anthology 82 (1996, Anderson Pub. Co., R.L. Fischman, M.I. Lipeles & M.S. Squillace eds.).
William Rodgers, Where Environmental Law and Biology Meet: Of Pandas' Thumbs, Statutory Sleepers, and Effective Law, 65 U. Colo. L. Rev. 25 (1993).
William Rodgers, The Porcupine's Dilemma: Strategic and Psychological Uncertainty in the Face of Global Warming, 9 Ariz. J. Int'l & Compar. Law 267 (1992).
William Rodgers, NEPA at 20: Mimicry and Recruitment in Environmental Law, 20 Env. Law 485 (1990).
William Rodgers, The Lesson of the Owl and the Crows: The Role of Deception in the Evolution of the Environmental Statutes, 4 J. of Land Use & Env. Law 377 (1989).
William Rodgers, The Lesson of the Red Squirrel: Consensus and Betrayal in the Environmental Statutes, 5 J.Contemp. Health Law & Policy 161 (1988).
William Rodgers, Guerilla Decisionmaking: Judicial Review of Risk Assessments, 15 J. Haz. Materials 205 (1987).
William Rodgers, The Washington Environmental Policy Act, 60 Washington Law Review 1 (1985).
William Rodgers, Bringing People Back: Toward A Comprehensive Theory of Taking in Natural Resources Law, 10 Ecological Law Quarterly 205 (1982), also reprinted as a peer review choice in 14 Land Use & Environmental Law Review (1983).
William Rodgers, The Natural Law of Administrative Law, 48 U. Mo. Law Review 101 (1983).
William Rodgers, Building Theories of Judicial Review in Natural Resources Law, 53 Colorado Law Review 213 (1982).
William Rodgers, Judicial Review of Risk Assessments: The Role of Decision Theory in Unscrambling the Benzene Decision, 11 Environmental Law 301 (1981), also reprinted in 13 Land Use & Environmental Law Review 629 (1982). Article was "ranked second," by a panel of 62 peer reviewers who chose among all land use and environmental articles published in 1981.
William Rodgers, Benefits, Costs, and Risks: Oversight of Health and Environmental Decisionmaking, 4 Harvard Environmental Law Review 191 (1980).
William Rodgers, A Hard Look at Vermont Yankee: Environmental Law Under Close Scrutiny, 67 Georgetown Law Journal 699 (1979).
William Rodgers, Comment on the Coal Lease Forfeiture Decision: The Hypothetical Case of United States v. Peabody Coal Co.," 15 Natural Resources Journal 257 (1975).
William Rodgers, The National Industrial Pollution Control Council: Advise or Collude, 13 Boston College Industrial & Commercial Law Review 719 (1972).
William Rodgers, The Washington State Thermal Power Plant Siting Act, 47 Washington Law Review 8 (1972).
William Rodgers, Industrial Water Pollution and the Refuse Act: A Second Chance of Water Quality, 119 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 761 (1971), also reprinted in 1971 Water Pollution Hearings of the House Conservation and Natural Resources sub-committee.
William Rodgers, A Model Bill on the Reporting of Campaign Contributions and Expenditures, 23 Vanderbilt Law Review 293 (1970).
William Rodgers, The Persistent Problem of the Persistent Pesticides: A Lesson in Environmental Law, 70 Columbia Law Review 567 (1970).
Professional Publications
William H. Rodgers, Jr., NEPA's Insatiable Optimism, 39 ELR 10618 (July 2009).
William Rodgers, A Constitutional Law of the Environment, in American Law Institute/American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education, Blessings of Liberty: The Constitution and the Practice of Law (1988).
William Rodgers, Choosing A Theory of Liability for Transboundary Pollution, in Environmental Law Section, Canadian Bar Association, Common Boundary/Common Problems; The Environmental Consequences of Energy Production (1982).
William Rodgers, Nerve Gas to the Northwest, 1Environmental Letters 2 (1971).
William Rodgers, When Seattle Citizens Complain, an article on the ombudsman in 2 The Urban Lawyer 386 (1970).
Book Reviews
William H. Rodgers Jr., "Public Power, Private Dams: The Hell's Canyon High Dam Controversy (by Karl Boyd Brooks)," to be published in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Spring 2007.
William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Tenth U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Crazy Horse, J.) And Dissents Not Written The Environmental Term of 2003-2004, 34 E.L.R. 11033 (December 2004).
William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Miccosukee Indians and Environmental Law: A Confederacy of Hope, 31 E.L.R. 10918 (2001).
William Rodgers, Superfund Trivia Test: A Comment on the Complexity of the Environmental Laws, 22 Envt'l L. 417 (1992).
William Rodgers, Intuition, Altruism and Spite: Justice as Justification, 34 Am. Behav. Scientist 386 (1991).
Briefs
William Rodgers, Preview of Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo, United States Supreme Court Cases, published in the 1981-82 Supreme Court term under sponsorship of ABA, ALI-ABA, AALS, and the American Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation.
William Rodgers, Siting Power Plants in Washington State, in National Academy of Engineering, Committee on Power Plant Siting Conference Proceedings (March 1972).
William Rodgers, Technology Suppression: The Most Dangerous Pollution, in Hearings of the Senate Commerce Committee, Energy Research and Development (1972).
William Rodgers, Answer and Complaint in Intervention from An Air Pollution Lawsuit (1971).
Newspapers
William Rodgers, Strengthen right to healthy environment, with Rachael Paschal Osborn, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 28, 2005.
William Rodgers, WPPSS Ruling Put Risk Where It Belongs, in the Los Angeles Times (July 1983) [also reprinted in other newspapers].
William Rodgers, The Back-Room Arm Twisters, The Nation, on advisory committees (June 8, 1974).
Bill Rodgers, How to Make Washington Better Contest, Winning Entry, Washingtonian, co-author with Janet M. Rodgers (Oct. 1973).
William Rodgers, The Visionary Octopus, The Nation, a short piece on mergers among electrical utilities (Jan. 8, 1973).
William Rodgers, Boise Cascade: The One That Got Away, Washington Monthly, on recreational land development (Nov. 1972).
William Rodgers, America the Beautiful, The New Republic (Jan. 1, 1972) (a short piece on billboards).
William Rodgers, Ecology Denied: The Unmaking of a Majority, in the Washington Monthly (Feb. 1971), also reprinted in C. Peters & J. Rothchild, eds., Inside the System 247-56 (2d ed., Praeger, 1973).
William Rodgers, How to Pollute: Tacoma's Tall Stack, The Nation (May 11, 1970).
William Rodgers, The Washington DDT Hearings, Pacific Search (a natural science publication for the Pacific Northwest) (March 1970).