{"id":2335,"date":"2016-02-29T23:56:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T04:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2016-02-29T23:58:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T04:58:40","slug":"environmental-law-ssrn-reading-list-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/2016\/02\/29\/environmental-law-ssrn-reading-list-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Law SSRN Reading List: February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SSRN<\/a><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Harvard Environmental Law Review<\/em>‘s monthly Environmental Law SSRN Reading List<\/a> is back, just in time for the spring submissions cycle. (Did you know we’re accepting submissions<\/a>\u00a0for Volume 41?) Check out this month’s selections below:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Votes of Other Judges<\/a> by Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule (arguing\u00a0that judges should take into account the votes of colleagues\u2014e.g., in the Chevron<\/em> context when different judges read a statute as being “unambiguous” in divergent\u00a0ways, suggesting ambiguity\u2014and proposing\u00a0a two-stage voting procedure for doing so)<\/li>\n
  2. The Origins of Legislation<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Ganesh Sitaraman (Notre Dame Law Review<\/em>) (providing a comprehensive typology of the origins of legislative drafts\u00a0and\u00a0outlining the many ways in which drafts emerge, then\u00a0explaining why members of Congress pursue different drafting processes and exploring\u00a0the consequences of variety in legislative drafting for theories of statutory interpretation, for identifying reliable sources of legislative history, and for arguments about congressional delegation and judicial deference to agencies)<\/li>\n
  3. Shooting the Albatross: Why a State Takeover of Federal Public Lands Would Make Endangered Species Act Compliance More Expensive and Difficult<\/a> by John Ruple, Mark K. Capone,\u00a0Emanuel V\u00e1squez &\u00a0Alison Jones (Environs<\/em>, Vol. 38, 2016) (arguing that\u00a0the goals underpinning state efforts to seize control of federal lands\u2014to reduce regulatory complexity and accelerate resource development\u2014are at odds with changes in the Endangered Species Act compliance process that a public land transfer would bring about)<\/li>\n
  4. The Unbearable Rightness of Auer<\/a> by Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule (arguing for Auer deference\u00a0to agencies based on their specialized competence and greater accountability, and rebutting challenges to Auer as resting on an anachronistic understanding of the nature of interpretation, an overheated argument about the separation of powers, and an empirically unfounded and logically weak argument about agency incentives) [Eds.: see also our forthcoming\u00a0case comment on <\/em>Perez v.\u00a0Mortgage Bankers!]<\/li>\n
  5. Make My Day! Dirty Harry and Final Agency Action<\/a> by William Funk (Environmental Law<\/em>, Forthcoming) (arguing\u00a0how and why the Supreme Court should affirm in Hawkes<\/em>, the pending CWA “final agency action” case, and\u00a0suggests that this case presents a perfect opportunity for the Court to clarify what is necessary to constitute final agency action subject to judicial review under the APA more generally)<\/li>\n
  6. When Do State Transmission Siting Laws Violate the Constitution?<\/a> by Alexandra B. Klass and Jim Rossi (Electricity Journal<\/em>) (assessing the merits of potential\u00a0Dormant Commerce Clause challenges\u00a0to state transmission line siting regimes, which may require state regulators to consider benefits beyond their jurisdictional borders\u2014particularly when\u00a0developers propose infrastructure projects to create regional (as opposed to state-specific) benefits in energy markets or where out-of-state developers propose to build interstate lines)<\/li>\n
  7. Consume or Invest: What Do\/Should Agency Leaders Maximize?<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0William E. Kovacic and\u00a0David A. Hyman (Washington Law Review, Forthcoming) (outlining the incentives for agencies to “consume” (launch high-profile cases and rulemakings) rather than “invest” (develop internal\u00a0infrastructure for the future), and offering several proposals to help agency leaders strike a better balance between consumption and investment)<\/li>\n
  8. 3D-Printed Food<\/a> by Jasper L. Tran (Forthcoming in Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology) (exploring the legal issues surrounding 3D-printed food, focusing on food safety and labeling)<\/li>\n
  9. Overcriminalization and the Endangered Species Act: Mens Rea and Criminal Convictions for Take<\/a> by Jonathan Wood (arguing that the Endangered Species Act’s “take” prohibition\u00a0requires knowledge of all of the facts constituting the offense, including the identity of the species)<\/li>\n
  10. Non-SSRN Bonus:\u00a0Judicial Missteps, Legislative Dysfunction, and the Public Trust Doctrine: Can Two Wrongs Make It Right?<\/a> by Richard J. Lazarus (Environmental Law<\/em>) (questioning the efficacy of relying on atmospheric trust doctrine theories in litigation to address the pressing issue of global climate change)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The\u00a0Harvard Environmental Law Review‘s monthly Environmental Law SSRN Reading List is back, just in time for the spring submissions cycle. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helr-online"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peZkUb-BF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}