Search
Now showing items 1-6 of 6
The Brave New Path of Energy Federalism
(Texas Law Review, 2016)
For much of the past 80 years courts have fixated on dual sovereignty as the organizing federalism paradigm under New Deal era energy statutes. Dual sovereignty’s reign emphasized a jurisdictional “bright line,” with a ...
Constrained Regulatory Exit in Energy Law
(Duke Law Journal, 2018)
In recent years, the federal government’s efforts to open up competitive electricity markets have transformed how we think about the regulation of energy. In many respects, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) ...
Reconstituting the Federalism Battle in Energy Transportation
(Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2017)
This article explores the growing federalism tensions in efforts to expand the nation’s energy transportation infrastructure — the electric transmission lines, natural gas pipelines, natural gas import and export terminals ...
Foreward to Revisiting the Public Utility
(Yale Journal on Regulation, 2018)
This foreword introduces "Revisiting the Public Utility," a series of essays published in a special issue of Yale Journal on Regulation. We cluster the contributions to this issue around public utility regulation’s core ...
Good for You, Bad for Us
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)
This Article examines a principal barrier to reducing U.S. carbon emissions — electricity distributors’ financial incentives to sell more of their product — and introduces the concept of net demand reduction (“NDR”) as a ...
Supply and Demand
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)
Like many fields, energy law has had its ups and downs. A period of remarkable activity in the 1970s and early 1980s focused on the efficiencies arising from deregulation of energy markets, but the field attracted much ...