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, 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 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.
ELPAR 2022-2023
For more information on methodology, data analysis, and article selections, please visit the Publications page.
Selected Articles
Past Events
2023 EELU Distinguished Lecture on Climate Change Governance
Vanderbilt University
Monday, October 16, 2023
Roger Martella, GE's Chief Sustainability Officer, emphasized the importance of private-sector solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the 2023 Distinguished Lecture on Climate Change Governance, made possible by the Sally Shallenberger Brown EELU Program Fund, endowed in 2021 by Martin Shallenberger Brown, JD’92.
2023 ELPAR Conference
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Environmental Law Institute and Virtual
Friday, March 31, 2023
9:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
View the Conferences page to learn more about the 2023 ELPAR Conference.
Sponsored by: ELI and Vanderbilt Law School
Co-sponsored by: D.C. Bar Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Community and Women's Council on Energy and the Environment
Building a New Grid without New Legislation Webinar
Online
Monday, February 27, 2023
1:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET
Long-distance, high-voltage transmission is central to integrating renewable generation at a sufficient scale to enable the US to decarbonize its electric system. Please join us for a discussion with Justin Gundlach and Isabel Carey on their proposals for how the U.S. Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission can use existing authorities to advance transmission development—even in the absence of Congressional action.
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Co-authored with Ari Zevin and Sam Walsh, Gundlach and Carey’s article Building a New Grid without New Legislation: A Path to Revitalizing Federal Transmission Authorities (originally published in Ecology Law Quarterly) was selected for inclusion in the 2023 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. The objective of ELPAR is to make some of the year’s best environmental law or policy ideas more accessible to policymakers and practitioners. To view the list of the ELPAR top 20 articles, please see our Article Overview Chart.
Please reach out to rickman@eli.org with any questions about the event.
For more information on previous conferences, please see our Past Events page. For more information about ELPAR, please see our Program Page.
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Making Net Zero Matter Webinar
Vanderbilt University Law School
Monday, January 30, 2023
1:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET
UCLA Professor Albert Lin joined ELPAR at Vanderbilt University Law School for a public presentation and discussion on his article Making Net Zero Matter (originally published in Washington & Lee Law Review). Lin addressed how enforcement mechanisms and carbon removal can be paired with net zero pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A recording of the event will be available shortly.
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Making Net Zero Matter was selected as an honorable mention in the 2023 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. The article abstract will be published in the August 2023 special issue of the Environmental Law Reporter. The objective of ELPAR is to make some of the year’s best environmental law or policy ideas more accessible to policymakers and practitioners. To view the list of the ELPAR top 20 articles, please see our Article Overview Chart.
Please reach out to rickman@eli.org with any questions about the event.
For more information on previous conferences, please see our Past Events page. For more information about ELPAR, please see our Program Page.
