ELPAR Publications

Latest Publication

Every year, Vanderbilt Law students work with an expert advisory committee, senior staff from ELI, and Vanderbilt law professors to select the year’s best academic articles that present legal and policy solutions to pressing environmental problems. The selected top articles and commentaries are published as the August Special Issue of the Environmental Law Reporter (ELR). 

ELPAR 2024-2025

The August 2025 issue of ELPAR in the Environmental Law Reporter is available to read. 

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Selections

Selected Articles
  • Joel B. Eisen and Heather Payne, Utilities with Purpose, 76 FLA. L. REV. 987 (to be presented at the DC conference);
  • Alexa Brunet Marks, Transitioning to Regenerative Agriculture One French Fry at a Time, 24 NEV. L. J. 1029  (to be presented at the DC conference);
  • Sharmila L. Murthy, Disrupting Utility Law for Water Justice, 76 STAN. L. REV. 597  (to be presented at the DC conference);
  • Sarah J. Fox, Soil Governance and Private Property, 2024 UTAH L. REV. 1 (to be presented at the Nashville Conference); and
  • J.B. Ruhl and James Salzman, The Greens’ Dilemma: Building Tomorrow’s Climate Infrastructure Today, 73 EMORY L.J. 1 (to be presented via webinar).
Honorable Mentions
  • Daniel Farber, Turning Point: Green Industrial Policy and the Future of U.S. Climate Action?, 11 TEX. A&M L. REV. 303;
  • Seema Kakade, A Contractual Relationship with Environmental Justice, 73 AM. U. L. REV. 343
  • Heather E. Payne, Repurposing Fossil Infrastructure, 15 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 35.

Past Publications

Past Data Analyses