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The Irony of Deregulatory Takings
(Texas Law Review, 1998)
This is a critical review essay, exploring the thesis advanced by Gregory Sidak and Daniel Spulber in their book Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract (Cambridge University Press 1997). Sidak and Spulber argue ...
Good for You, Bad for Us: The Financial Disincentive for Net Demand Reduction
(North Carolina Law Review, 2013)
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 ...
Federal Preemption and Clean Energy Floors
(North Carolina Law Review, 2013)
Federal policies regarding renewable and clean energy often lack clear definition, are incomplete, and are scattered across multiple statutes and agencies. Yet at the same time, recent decisions of both federal agencies ...
The Limits of a National Renewable Portfolio Standard
(Connecticut Law Review, 2010)
In this Commentary Article, Professor Rossi highlights some of the distributional and operational problems presented by a national renewable portfolio standard ("RPS") in electric power. He also offers several solutions ...
Electric Power Resource "Shuffling" and Subnational Carbon Regulation: Looking Upstream for a Solution
(San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law, 2014)
"Resource shuffling" occurs when different subnational approaches to carbon regulation create variations in the costs of production across jurisdictions. California is the most aggressive jurisdiction in the United States ...
Supply and Demand: Barriers to a New Energy Future
(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 ...
Does the Solicitor General Advantage Thwart the Rule of Law in the Administrative State?
(Florida State University Law Review, 2000)
Linda Cohen and Matthew Spitzer's study, "The Government Litigant Advantage," sheds important light on how the Solicitor General's litigation behavior may impact the Supreme Court's decision making agenda and outcomes for ...
Universal Service in Competitive Retail Electric Power Markets: Whither the Duty to Serve?
(Energy Law Journal, 2000)
This article addresses whether traditional service obligations can coexist with retail competition. A rationale often given for universal service obligations in the telecommunications industry is that universal service, ...
Agency Coordination in Shared Regulatory Space
(Harvard Law Review, 2012)
This Article argues that inter-agency coordination is one of the great challenges of modern governance. It explains why lawmakers frequently assign overlapping and fragmented delegations that require agencies to "share ...
Of Dialogue--And Democracy--In Administrative Law
(Columbia Law Review Sidebar, 2012)
Linda Cohen and Matthew Spitzer's study, "The Government Litigant Advantage," sheds important light on how the Solicitor General's litigation behavior may impact the Supreme Court's decision making agenda and outcomes for ...