Timothy M. Mulvaney
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
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Courses: Property, Land Use, Environmental Law, Eminent Domain & Regulatory Takings Seminar

Professor Timothy Mulvaney joined Texas Wesleyan University School of Law as a Visiting Associate Professor in 2009. Prior to joining the Texas Wesleyan law faculty, Professor Mulvaney worked at an environmental law research institute associated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s Sea Grant program at the University of Mississippi School of Law. At the University of Mississippi, he taught Land Use Law and select lectures in Constitutional Law. 

Before entering academia, Professor Mulvaney served as a Deputy Attorney General in the environmental and land use practice group of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. Drawing on that experience, Professor Mulvaney’s scholarship explores the many conflicts at the intersection of property, land use and environmental law, with a particular focus on constitutional takings jurisprudence and the public trust doctrine. Professor Mulvaney is a co-principal investigator on a team that recently has been awarded a federal grant to conduct a two-year interdisciplinary and cooperative research project on regulatory takings, environmental law and land use issues related to natural hazard and climate change resiliency. 

Professor Mulvaney earned his J.D. from the Villanova University School of Law. He served as an associate editor of the Villanova Law Review and received an award for the finest publication in the Law Review in 2003.  Professor Mulvaney earned his B.A. in economics from Haverford College, where he served as President of the Haverford College Athletic Association and captained both the basketball and baseball teams. After Haverford, he spent one year with the Americorps National Civilian Community Corps.

Selected Publications

Takings in the Trenches, ___ FLORIDA STATE J. LAND USE & ENVTL. L. ___ (symposium contribution to be prepared, 2010)

The Remnants of Exaction Takings, ___ U.C. DAVIS ENVTL. L & POL’Y J. ___ (forthcoming 2010)

Pining for Sustainability, ___ RICHMOND L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2010)

Instream Flows and the Public Trust, 22 TULANE ENVTL. L.J. 315 (2009).  [Hein] [LexisNexis] [Westlaw]

Waterlocked: Public Access to New Jersey’s Coastline, 34 U.C. BERKELEY ECOLOGY L.Q. 579 (2007) (with Brian Weeks).  [Hein] [LexisNexis] [Westlaw]

Categorical Approach or Categorical Chaos? Felony DWI as a Crime of Violence for Purposes of Deportation, 48 VILL. L. REV. 697 (2003).  [Hein] [LexisNexis] [Westlaw]