{"id":2291,"date":"2015-11-30T10:49:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T15:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2015-11-30T17:58:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T22:58:47","slug":"environmental-law-ssrn-reading-list-november-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/2015\/11\/30\/environmental-law-ssrn-reading-list-november-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Law SSRN Reading List: November 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SSRN<\/p>\n

We at the Harvard Environmental Law Review<\/em> are big fans of Yale Journal on Regulation<\/em>\u2019s Notice & Comment blog<\/a>, and we have especially enjoyed reading Chris Walker<\/a>\u2019s monthly Administrative Law SSRN Reading List (October edition here<\/a>). We haven\u2019t seen anything similar for new environmental law scholarship though, so we have decided to try to fill this gap ourselves.\u00a0HELR<\/em> is pleased to present our first recap of (some of) the most interesting environmental law articles that have been posted to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) in the past 60 days.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t visited SSRN\u2019s Legal Scholarship Network<\/a> yet, you should. Law professors and practitioners often post works in progress and drafts that have been accepted for publication. Each article page provides statistics on abstract views and downloads so you can readily see which articles are making waves. SSRN also gives authors their own homepages, so you can click authors names to find more of their\u00a0papers. And, perhaps best of all, SSRN is completely free to use.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for followers of environmental law, our broad field is fragmented online. SSRN has separate sites for its Environmental Law & Policy eJournal<\/a>, Property, Land Use & Real Estate Law eJournal<\/a>, U.S. Administrative Law eJournal<\/a>, Climate Change Law & Policy eJournal<\/a>, International Environmental Law eJournal<\/a>, Natural Resources Law & Policy eJournal<\/a>, Environmental Justice & Sustainability eJournal<\/a>, Energy Law & Policy eJournal<\/a>, Protected Lands Law & Policy eJournal<\/a>, Food Law & Policy eJournal<\/a>, and Animal Law eJournal<\/a> (those are sorted in order of downloads on SSRN, by the way).<\/p>\n

Rather than pick one of these eleven eJournals to follow or cover them all, we will have one staff member each month review these eJournals\u2019 “Recent Top Papers” lists\u00a0and use his or her\u00a0judgment to curate a roundup\u00a0of the ten most interesting new\u00a0pieces overall. We hope you enjoy our\u00a0selections!<\/p>\n

Without further ado, we give you\u00a0HELR<\/em>\u2019s reading list for this past month:<\/p>\n

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  1. Intra-Agency Coordination<\/strong><\/a> by Jennifer Nou<\/a> (129 Harvard Law Review __ (2015, Forthcoming)) (exploring the way that agency heads manage \u201cinternal hierarchies and procedures\u201d within an agency and considering normative implications of agency management for political and legal oversight)<\/li>\n
  2. Antimonopoly in Public Land Law<\/strong><\/a> by Michael C. Blumm<\/a> and Kara Tebeau<\/a> (<\/strong>28 Georgetown Environmental Law Review no. 2 (2016), Forthcoming) (examining the theme of antimonopoly as a \u201ccardinal feature\u201d of American public land law over time and arguing that it should be preserved)<\/li>\n
  3. Distributed Reliability<\/strong><\/a> by Amy L. Stein<\/a> (University of Colorado Law Review, Forthcoming) (assessing the shift toward \u201ccustomer-owned generation and related services like energy storage and demand response,\u201d which has created new ownership models that are in tension with the existing regulatory regime for the electricity grid, and considering opportunities for enhanced coordination between utilities and these customers)<\/li>\n
  4. Potential Liability of Governments for Failure to Prepare for Climate Change<\/strong><\/a> by Jennifer Klein<\/a>, Columbia University (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, August 2015) (exploring three potential legal claims against state and local governments for failing to prepare for the risks of climate change: negligence, fraud, and takings)<\/li>\n
  5. FERC’s Expansive Authority to Transform the Electric Grid<\/strong><\/a> by Joel B. Eisen<\/a> (UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 49, 2016, Forthcoming) (using a hundred-year historical analysis to conclude that Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has \u201cample authority to pursue broad environmental and energy goals in transforming the electric grid,\u201d for example through demand response or a carbon price)<\/li>\n
  6. How Local Discrimination Can Promote Global Public Goods<\/strong><\/a> by Timothy Meyer<\/a> (Boston University Law Review, Vol. 95, December 2015, Forthcoming) (arguing\u00a0that state renewable energy programs provide benefits to global public welfare that the WTO failed to take into account when it found that local renewable energy subsidies unlawfully discriminate against foreign products)<\/li>\n
  7. Deference for Realists: The Resurgent Major Questions Doctrine as a Chevron Safety Valve<\/strong><\/a> by Nathan D. Richardson<\/a> (tracing the \u201cmajor questions\u201d doctrine cases and asking whether the doctrine\u2014which is used to avoid Chevron deference\u2014is a welcome development; the paper argues that this question is especially important as litigation of the EPA\u2019s Clean Power Plan \u201cbears all of the hallmarks of a major questions case\u201d)<\/li>\n
  8. Modeling Uncertainty in Climate Change: A Multi<\/strong>\u2010<\/strong>Model Comparison<\/strong><\/a> by Kenneth Gillingham<\/a> et al. (Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2022) (presenting the results of the first comprehensive study of uncertainty in climate change modeling, looking at both model and parametric uncertainties; the paper finds that \u201cparametric uncertainty is more important than uncertainty in model structure\u201d and offers insight into tail events)<\/li>\n
  9. Horne v. Department of Agriculture: Expanding Per Se Takings While Endorsing State Sovereign Ownership of Wildlife<\/strong><\/a> by John D. Echeverria<\/a> and Michael C. Blumm<\/a> (Maryland Law Review, Forthcoming) (examining to what extent the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Horne v. Department of Agriculture<\/em>\u00a0extends the Court\u2019s takings jurisprudence by applying per se analysis and assessing the long-term impacts of the decision on wildlife)<\/li>\n
  10. Global Development Goals: If at All, Why, When and How?<\/strong><\/a> by Sanjay G. Reddy<\/a> and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven<\/a> (exploring foundational questions of global development goals: why have them, what function do they serve, and how might they be successful; the authors contend that \u201chigher-level goals may play a useful role if the practical approach to them is embedded in a holistic and integrated vision of a better world\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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