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Harmonizing Commercial Wind Power and the Endangered Species Act Through Administrative Reform
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)
This Article explores the intersection of utility-scale wind power development and the Endangered Species Act, which thus far has not been as happy a union as one might expect. Part I provides background on how the ESA and ...
Panarchy and the Law
(Ecology and Society, 2012)
Panarchy theory focuses on improving theories of change in natural and social systems to improve the design of policy responses. Its central thesis is that successfully working with the dynamic forces of complex adaptive ...
In Appreciation of the Tarlock Effect
(Chicago-Kent Law Review, 2018)
So, what is one to do about The Tarlock Effect? It didn't take long for me to realize early in my academic career-well before my foray into climate change adaptation policy-that there's just no escaping it. So I learned ...
Topic Modeling the President
(George Washington Law Review, 2018)
Law is generally represented through text, and lawyers have for centuries classified large bodies of legal text into distinct topics — they “topic model” the law. But large bodies of legal documents present challenges for ...
Total Scholarly Impact: Law Professor Citations in Non-Law Journals
(Journal of Legal Education, 2020)
In this article, we demonstrate that the citation counts and other author information available through the Web of Science database has made non-law citations possible to assemble and assess in a manner similar to the Sisk ...
Governing Cascade Failures in Complex Social-Ecological-Technological Systems: Framing Context, Strategies, and Challenges
(Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law and Technology, 2020)
Cascade failures are events in networked systems with interconnected components in which failure of one or a few parts triggers the failure of other parts, which triggers the failure of more parts, and so on. Cascade ...
Beyond Green Infrastructure--Integrating the Ecosystem Services Framework into Urban Planning Law and Policy
(Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy, 2020)
Despite the heavy emphasis in legal scholarship on federal and state governance of environmental policy, cities have had their champions as well. Legal scholars who stand out as having defined a position for local governance ...
What Happens When the Green New Deal Meets the Old Green Laws?
(Vermont Law Review, 2020)
The multi-faceted infrastructure goals of the Green New Deal will be impossible to achieve in the desired time frames if the existing federal, state, and local siting and environmental protection statutory regimes are ...
Introduction: Governing Wicked Problems
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2020)
"Wicked problems." It just says it all. Persistent social problems--poverty, food insecurity, climate change, drug addiction, pollution, and the list goes on--seem aptly condemned as wicked. But what makes them wicked, and ...
Designing Law to Enable Adaptive Governance of Modern Wicked Problems
(2020)
This Article contributes to the development of adaptive governance theory by articulating and situating the role of formal law and government as the facilitator, but not central controller, of adaptive governance. To advance ...