BREAKING: The Top 20 Articles for ELPAR 2024-2025 have been selected!. Click the link below to see what articles were chosen.
innovative environmental solutions
Each year, Vanderbilt Law School students work with their course instructors, an expert advisory board and senior staff from ELI to identify the year's Top 20 academic articles that present innovative legal and policy solutions to pressing environmental problems. Condensed versions of the selected articles, along with commentaries from leading practitioners and policymakers, are published in the August Issue of the Environmental Law Reporter (ELR) and presented at annual conferences in Washington, D.C.
Highlighted Article Selections for 2024-2025
National Conference
Selected Articles
- Joel B. Eisen and Heather Payne, Utilities with Purpose, 76 FLA. L. REV. 987
- Alexa Brunet Marks, Transitioning to Regenerative Agriculture One French Fry at a Time, 24 NEV. L. J. 1029
- Sharmila L. Murthy, Disrupting Utility Law for Water Justice, 76 STAN. L. REV. 597
Local Conference
Selected Article
- Sarah J. Fox, Soil Governance and Private Property, 2024 UTAH L. REV. 1
Honorable Mentions
Selected Articles
- Daniel Farber, Turning Point: Green Industrial Policy and the Future of U.S. Climate Action?, 11 TEX. A&M L. REV. 303;
- Seema Kakade, A Contractual Relationship with Environmental Justice, 73 AM. U. L. REV. 343
- Heather E. Payne, Repurposing Fossil Infrastructure, 15 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 35.
Webinar
Selected Article
- J.B. Ruhl and James Salzman, The Greens’ Dilemma: Building Tomorrow’s Climate
Infrastructure Today, 73 EMORY L.J. 1
- J.B. Ruhl and James Salzman, The Greens’ Dilemma: Building Tomorrow’s Climate
Highlighted Article Selections for 2023-2024
National Conference
Selected Articles
- Felix Mormann, Climate Choice Architecture, 64 B.C. L. REV. 1;
- Christiana Ochoa, Kacey Cook, and Hanna Weil, Deals in the Heartland: Renewable Energy Projects, Local Resistance, and How Law Can Help, 107 MINN. L. REV. 1055; and
- Dave Owen, The Negotiable Implementation of Environmental Law, 75 STAN. L. REV. 137.
Local Conference
- Selected Article
-
-
Alexander Gouzoules, Going Concerns and Environmental Concerns: Mitigating Climate Change Through Bankruptcy Reform
-
Honorable Mentions
Selected Articles
- Caroline Cecot, Efficiency and Equity in Regulation, 76 VAND. L. REV. 361;
- Goran Dominioni and Daniel C. Esty, Designing Effective Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms: Aligning the Global Trade and Climate Change Regimes, 65 ARIZ. L. REV. 1;
- Alexander Gouzoules, Going Concerns and Environmental Concerns: Mitigating Climate Change Through Bankruptcy Reform, 63 B.C. L. REV. 2169; and
- Michele Okoh, Forgotten Waters, 111 GEO. L.J. 723.
Webinar
Selected Article
- Goran Dominioni and Daniel C. Esty, Designing Effective Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms: Aligning the Global Trade and Climate Change Regimes
Past Top 20 Article Selections
- Past Top 20 Article Selections