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Kent J. Rissmiller

Associate Professor
Interim Associate Dean Interdisciplinary and Global Studies

Faculty Listing
Office: Atwater Kent Laboratories, 124
Phone: +1-508-831-5019
Fax: +1-508-831-5896
kjr@wpi.edu

Educational Background

A.B., Muhlenberg College, 1976
J.D., Franklin Pierce Law Center, 1980
M.A., Syracuse University, 1981
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1986

Research & Teaching Interests

Environmental and energy law and policy; American politics; normative political theory; Jurisprudence; Contemporary normative theory; Intergovernmental relations; Judicial policymaking; Policy modeling; Policy applications in energy and environmental policy; Regulatory politics and law

IQP Advising Interests

Bureaucratic decision making (policy); environmental law, policy and implementation; juvenile justice in Worcester County; nuclear waste policy and implementation; patent law and intellectual property; scientists in court - the role of experts; energy, law, policy and implementation; judicial review of science in policy; regulatory decision making (quasi-judicial)

Research Grants

"Curriculum Development in Latin American Studies." With Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld, PI., et. al. U.S. Dept. of Education funding for $120,000 over two years. April 1998.
With Tariq Banuri, Khalid Saeed and Steve Waddell. "Building Global Public Policy Networks to Integrate Sustainable Development into Trade," Olin Foundation funding for $108,000. December 2000.
With Robert Nasdor, James Doyle and the Legal Assistance Corp. of Central Massachusetts. LiveJustice.com $320,000 over 3 years from the Technology Opportunity Program, U.S. Department of Commerce.

Recent Publications

With Elise Weaver and George Richardson, "The Consequences of Guilt by Association as an Investigative Decision Rule." Presented at the 21st International Conference of the System Dynamics Society. New York. July 2003.
"Modeling Policy Change: Problems and Prognosis." Paper presentation at the 32nd Annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association. Albany, New York. November 9, 2000.
"Approaching a Model of Policy Change: A Challenge to Political Science." Presented at the 18th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society. Bergen, Norway. August 8, 2000.
K. Rissmiller. "Approaching a Model of Policy Change: A Challenge to Political Science" in The Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society. Albany, New York: The System Dynamics Society, 2000.
K. Rissmiller. "The Courts, Executive Power and Individual Rights in Environmental Policy." David Schultz, Ed. Law and Politics: Unanswered Questions. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1994.

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Professional Societies/Memberships

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, admitted to the Bar, 1980
Federal District Court for the District of Mass., admitted to the Bar, 1982
American Political Science Association
System Dynamics Society

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