Revision of Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review from Mon, 01/24/2022 - 11:06

Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review

The Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR) is published annually in the August issue of the Environmental Law Reporter (ELR) in collaboration with the Vanderbilt University Law School (VULS) and the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) in Washington, DC. Each year, Vanderbilt Law students work with an expert advisory committee and senior staff from ELI to identify the year’s best academic articles that present legal and policy solutions to pressing environmental problems (see 2020-2021 methodology here).

The result is a one issue, student-edited volume that includes condensed versions of the selected articles, along with commentaries from leading experts from the academy, law firms, business, government and non-governmental organizations.

In conjunction with the publication, ELI and Vanderbilt co-sponsor an annual conference at which the authors of the articles and article commenters present their ideas and views to an audience that includes business, government (federal, state, and local), think tank, and non-profit representatives. More information about the 2021 ELPAR conference is available here.

To listen to ELPAR podcasts please visit: https://www.eli.org/podcasts/elpar-podcasts

A screenshot of a zoom meeting of the ELPAR Class

Vanderbilt University Law Students ELPAR 2020-2021 with ELI Senior Attorney Linda Breggin (third row, fourth from left) and Professor Michael Vandenbergh (fifth row, second from left).

The 2021-2022 ELPAR top articles have been selected:

David Adelman and Jori Reilly-Diakun, Environmental Citizen Suits and the Inequities of Races to the Top, 92 U. COLO. L. REV. 377;
Jamie Lee, Turning Participation Into Power: A Water Justice Case Study, 28 GEO. MASON L. REV. 1003;
Leo Strine, Kirby Smith, and Reilly Steel, Caremark and ESG, Perfect Together: A Practical Approach to Implementing an Integrated, Efficient, and Effective Caremark and EESG, 106 IOWA L. REV. 1885; and
Shelley Welton, Rethinking Grid Governance for the Climate Change Era, 109 CALIF. L. REV. 209.

In addition, two articles were selected for Honorable Mention:

Victor Flatt, Holding Polluters Accountable in Times of Climate and COVID Risk: The Problems with "Emergency" Enforcement Waivers, 12 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 1; and
Monte Mills and Martin Nie, Bridges to a New Era: A Report on the Past, Present, and Potential Future of Tribal Co-Management on Federal Public Lands, 44 PUB. LAND & RESOURCES L. REV. 49.

ELPAR will host a conference in Nashville, TN, in late February to discuss Professor Lee’s article. We will also host a conference on March 25 in Washington, DC, to discuss Professors Adelman et al., Strine et al., and Welton articles. Check back soon for more information.