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Revitalizing Dormant Commerce Clause Review for Interstate Coordination
(Minnesota Law Review, 2015)
Interstate coordination presents one of the most difficult challenges for American federalism as well as for energy markets and policy. Existing laws vest the approval of large-scale energy infrastructure projects such as ...
The Production Function of the Regulatory State
(Minnesota Law Review, 2017)
How much will our budget be cut be this year? This question has loomed ominously over regulatory agencies for over three decades. After the 2016 presidential election, it now stands front and center in federal policy, with ...
Environmental Law at the Borders
(Natural Resources & Environment, 2017)
Pipelines to the north. Walls to the south. Between President Trump's issuance of a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline crossing from Canada and his promise to build "The Wall," the politics of our national borders rarely ...
Climate Change Adaptation and the Structural Transformation of Environmental Law
(Environmental Law, 2010)
The path of environmental law has come to a cliff called climate change, and there is no turning around. As climate change policy dialogue emerged in the 1990s, however, the perceived urgency of attention to mitigation ...
Gaming the Past: The Theory and Practice of Historic Baselines in the Administrative State
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2011)
This article explores in detail the attributes and operation of historic baselines. That historic baselines are found throughout regulatory law is no accident. Particularly when the policy goal involves turning back the ...
An Empirical Assessment of Climate Change in the Courts: A New Jurisprudence or Business as Usual?
(Florida Law Review, 2012)
While legal scholarship seeking to assess the impact of litigation on the direction of climate change policy is abundant and growing in leaps and bounds, to date it has relied on and examined only small, isolated pieces ...
Environmental Law
(Wayne Law Review, 2016)
The decisions of the Michigan Supreme Court and the Michigan Court of Appeals during the Survey period, May 23, 2007 to July 30, 2008, did not dramatically change the course of environmental law in Michigan, nor did they ...
Entrenching Environmentalism
(University of Chicago Law Review, 2010)
This piece for the University of Chicago Law Review Symposium: Reassessing the State and Local Government Toolkit, examines how local governments can use private law mechanisms to entrench policy in ways that circumvent ...
Transforming (perceived) Rigidity in Environmental Law Through Adaptive Governance
(Ecology and Society, 2017)
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is often portrayed as a major source of instability and crisis in river basins of the U. S. West, where the needs of listed fish species frequently clash with agriculture dependent on federal ...
Survey Mode Effects on Valuation of Environmental Goods
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2011)
This article evaluates the effect of the choice of survey recruitment mode on the value of water quality in lakes, rivers, and streams. Four different modes are compared:bringing respondents to one central location after ...