{"id":2365,"date":"2016-03-31T23:56:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T03:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:57:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:57:38","slug":"environmental-law-ssrn-reading-list-march-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/elr\/2016\/03\/31\/environmental-law-ssrn-reading-list-march-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Law SSRN Reading List: March 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

We’re back again with the\u00a0Harvard Environmental Law Review<\/em>‘s last\u00a0monthly Environmental Law SSRN Reading List<\/a>\u00a0of the school year.\u00a0Check out this month’s selections below:<\/p>\n

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  1. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Arbitrariness Review<\/a> by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Environmental Law Review, Forthcoming) (arguing that whenever a statute authorizes an agency to consider costs and benefits, its failure to quantify them\u2014and to weigh them against each other\u2014requires a non-arbitrary justification, such as the technical difficulty of quantifying costs and benefits; the relevance of values such as equity, dignity, and fair distribution; or\u00a0the existence of welfare effects that are not captured by monetized costs and benefits)<\/li>\n
  2. The Supreme Court’s Clean-Power Power Grab<\/a> by Lisa Heinzerling (Georgetown Environmental Law Review, Forthcoming) (detailing\u00a0ten ways in which the Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision and process on the applications to stay the Clean Power Plan reflected bad choices)<\/li>\n
  3. Unjust, Unreasonable, and Unduly Discriminatory: Utility Rates and the Campaign Against Rooftop Solar<\/a> by Ari Peskoe (Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law, 2016, Forthcoming) (examining the history of\u00a0electricity distribution regulation, and\u00a0concluding that opening up the monopoly-controlled distribution system to new technologies and services provided by non-IOU entities is consistent with the history and purpose of state regulation)<\/li>\n
  4. Two Wrongs? Correcting Professor Lazarus’s Misunderstanding of the Public Trust Doctrine<\/a> by\u00a0Michael C. Blumm (Environmental Law, Vol. 46, No. 3, 2016) (responding to Professor Richard Lazarus’s recent article\u00a0Judicial Missteps, Legislative Dysfunction, and the Public Trust Doctrine: Can Two Wrongs Make It Right?<\/a>, which questioned the efficacy of relying on atmospheric trust doctrine theories in litigation to address global climate change, by\u00a0arguing\u00a0that Professor Lazarus\u00a0misunderstands the non-absolutist nature of the public trust doctrine and that the doctrine\u00a0requires legislative and administrative\u00a0decisionmakers\u00a0to exercise their discretion in protecting trust resources from destruction or monopolization)<\/li>\n
  5. The Failure to Understand Expertise in Administrative Law: The Problem and the Consequences<\/a> by\u00a0Sidney A. Shapiro (explaining how the limited understanding of expertise in administrative law has led to a \u201crational-instrumental\u201d (RI) accountability paradigm, which distrusts agency expertise and seeks to narrow the policy space in which agency expertise can operate, when a\u00a0more accurate and complete understanding of expertise supports \u201cdeliberative-constitutive\u201d (DC) accountability, which has the potential to increase agency effectiveness and still reconcile the administrative state with our constitutional democracy)<\/li>\n
  6. Strategic Rulemaking Disclosure<\/a> by\u00a0Jennifer Nou and\u00a0Edward Stiglitz (finding that\u00a0agencies substantially under-report their rulemaking activities\u00a0and\u00a0appear to disclose strategically to Congress, so the Unified Agenda is not a successful tool for Congress to monitor and influence regulatory development)<\/li>\n
  7. The Originalist Myth of the Unitary Executive<\/a> by Peter M. Shane (arguing that\u00a0close study of the state constitutions written in the first decades after 1789 and state administrative practice under them belie any \u201cunitary executive\u201d reading of Article II that purports to be based on \u201coriginal public meaning,\u201d corroborating\u00a0a common understanding that Article II\u2019s vesting of executive power permitted substantial legislative control over the allocation of decisional authority within the executive branch)<\/li>\n
  8. The Brave New Path of Energy Federalism<\/a> by Jim Rossi (Texas Law Review, Forthcoming) (defending concurrent federal-state jurisdiction as consistent with the history, structure, and language of energy statutes, as well as their primary purposes of closing regulatory gaps, and\u00a0calling on courts and regulators to be attentive to promoting democratically accountably agency preemption as they address the challenges of new forms of energy federalism)<\/li>\n
  9. The Legal Character of the Paris Agreement<\/a> by Daniel Bodansky (Review of European, Comparative, and International Environmental Law, Forthcoming) (finding that\u00a0the Paris agreement is a treaty within the definition of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, but not every provision of the agreement creates a legal obligation)<\/li>\n
  10. Oil & Gas Drilling in National Parks Elizabeth<\/a> by Glass Geltman (arguing that the National Park Service’s “9B Regulations,” which provide a national regulatory framework governing the exercise of nonfederal oil and gas rights in national parks, should be revised)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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