The Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR) is published annually in the August issue of The Environmental Law Reporter (ELR) in collaboration with Vanderbilt University Law School (VULS) and ELI. Each year, Vanderbilt Law students work with an expert advisory committee, senior staff from ELI, and Vanderbilt law professors to identify some of the year’s best academic articles that include creative and feasible law and policy proposals.
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. The publication also includes a Top 20 Article Chart, Honorable Mention article abstracts, and a snapshot of topics addressed in the scholarship during the prior year.
2024 Featured Articles
The 2024 issue features condensed versions of the following articles:
- Climate Choice Architecture, by Felix Mormann
- Deals in the Heartland: Renewable Energy Projects, Local Resistance, and How Law Can Help, by Christiana Ochoa, Kacey Cook, and Hanna Weil
- The Negotiable Implementation of Environmental Law, by Dave Owen
- Designing Effective Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms: Aligning the Global Trade and Climate Change Regimes, by Goran Dominioni and Daniel C. Esty
Honorable Mentions
This year’s honorable mentions were:
- Efficiency and Equity in Regulation, by Caroline Cecot
- Going Concerns and Environmental Concerns: Mitigating Climate Change Through Bankruptcy Reform, by Alexander Gouzoules
- Forgotten Waters, by Michele Okoh
General & Topic-Specific Article Overview Charts
In addition to creating the Top 20 Articles Overview Chart with articles from 2022-2023, the ELPAR team compiled lists of articles that address topics of particular interest to policymakers and practitioners: environmental justice & private governance. Explore the Private Governance Article Overview chart and Environmental Justice Article Overview chart to learn more.
Learn More About ELPAR:
Listen to the podcast on last year’s ELPAR article discussing the social cost of carbon here
Watch the recording of the 2024 ELPAR Conference here
Visit the ELPAR webpage here.