Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review

Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review

ELPAR Conference Photos and 2022 ELR Cover

 

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, senior staff from ELI, and Vanderbilt law professors to identify the year’s best academic articles that present legal and policy solutions to pressing environmental problems.

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. 

2021-2022 ELPAR Publication

Top 20 Articles

Methodology

Data Analysis

Highlighted Articles

Environmental Citizen Suits and the Inequities of Races to the Top
by David Adelman and Jori Reilly-Diakun (condensed version)

Comments

Turning Participation Into Power: A Water Justice Case Study
by Jaime Lee (condensed version)

Comments

Caremark and ESG, Perfect Together: A Practical Approach to Implementing an Integrated, Efficient, and Effective Caremark and EESG
by Leo Strine, Kirby Smith, and Reilly Steel (condensed version)

Comments

Rethinking Grid Governance for the Climate Change Era
by Shelley Welton (condensed version)

Comments

Holding Polluters Accountable in Times of Climate and COVID Risk: The Problems with "Emergency" Enforcement Waivers
by Victor Flatt (abstract summary)

Bridges to a New Era: A Report on the Past, Present, and Potential Future of Tribal Co-Management on Federal Public Lands
by Monte Mills and Martin Nie (abstract summary)

Vanderbilt Law School ELPAR Class Photo '22-'23
Vanderbilt University Law Students ELPAR 2022-2023 with ELI Senior Attorney Linda Breggin (first row, third from right) and Professor Michael Vandenbergh (first row, far left).

 

2021-2022 Events

DC Conference  

Vanderbilt and ELI co-hosted a virtual conference in late March 2022 to discuss the other three 2021-2022 ELPAR articles. See the Conference agenda and speaker biographies to learn more about the panelists. 

Check out the Conference page for a recording of the event and more information. 
 

Nashville Symposium

Vanderbilt University Law School hosted the Symposium in late February 2022 to discuss Professor Lee's article. 

Speakers
  • Jaime Lee, Associate Professor of Law, Director, Community Development Clinic, University of Baltimore School of Law 
  • LaTricea D. Adams, Founder CEO, President, Black Millennials for Flint 
  • Amy Rao Mohan, Member, Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, PLC
  • Chandra Taylor-Sawyer, Senior Attorney, Leader, Environmental Justice Initiative, Southern Environmental Law Center 
  • Jennifer Tribble, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Policy and Sustainable Practices, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation

Check out the Symposium page for a recording of the event and more information.