ELPAR Publications

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Every year, Vanderbilt Law students work with an expert advisory committee, senior staff from ELI, and Vanderbilt law professors to select the year’s best academic articles that present legal and policy solutions to pressing environmental problems. The selected Top 20 Articles and commentaries are published in the August Issue of the Environmental Law Reporter (ELR).

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ELPAR 2023-2024

The August 2024 issue of ELPAR in the Environmental Law Reporter is now available.

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ELPAR Complete List of Reviewed Articles 2022-2023

Selections

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;
Dave Owen, The Negotiable Implementation of Environmental Law, 75 STAN. L. REV. 137; and
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.

Honorable Mentions

Caroline Cecot, Efficiency and Equity in Regulation, 76 VAND. L. REV. 361;
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. 72.

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