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.

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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.

ELPAR Advisory Committee

ELPAR is designed to bring ideas from the academy to policymakers and practitioners, as well as recognize and incentivize scholars to write articles that include creative and feasible law and policy proposals. This is made possible through the support of an expert advisory committee.

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Upcoming Events

Washington DC Conference

Environmental Law Institute
Friday, March 31, 2023
9:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET

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Article Picks

Curtis, Fisch, & Robertson, Do ESG Mutual Funds Deliver on Their Promises?
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Ziaja, How Algorithm-Assisted Decision Making Is Influencing Environmental Law and Climate Adaptation

Ari Zevin Webinar

Online
Monday, February 27, 2023
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET

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Please join us for a discussion centered on how federal agencies can proliferate long-distance, high-voltage transmission that are needed for effective decarbonization efforts without relying on Congress to pass new legislation—a novel use of authority evaluated by Ari Zevin, Deputy General Counsel for Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy. In this webinar, author Ari Zevin will discuss his article Building a New Grid without New Legislation: A Path to Revitalizing Federal Transmission Authorities (originally published).

Ari Zevin’s article was among top 20 articles selected for inclusion in the list of top 20 articles selected for the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR), an annual joint publication of the Environmental Law Institute’s Environmental Law Reporter and Vanderbilt University Law School. To view the list of the top 20 articles, please see our Article Overview Chart. The objective of ELPAR is to make some of the year’s best environmental law or policy ideas more accessible to policy-makers and practitioners.

Please reach out to rickman@eli.org with any questions about the event.