innovative environmental solutions
Each year, Vanderbilt Law School students work with their course instructors, an expert advisory board and senior staff from ELI to identify the year's top academic articles that present innovative legal and policy solutions to pressing environmental problems. Condensed versions of the selected articles, along with commentaries from leading practitioners and policymakers, are published in the August Issue of the Environmental Law Reporter (ELR) and presented at annual conferences in Washington, D.C.
Selected Articles for 2025-2026
National Conference
Selected Articles
- Anthony B. Derron, Unwritten Administrative Law and the Regulatory Last Mile, 173 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1657
- Albert C. Lin, Indoor Air: The Forgotten Frontier of Environmental Law, 85 Ohio St. L.J. 1291
- Dave Owen, The Water District and the State, 134 Yale L.J. 1
Webinar
Selected Article
- James Salzman and Ana Mackay Peltzer, The Cleanest Water and the Dumbest Kids: Do Small Water Systems Comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act?, 44 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 276
Honorable Mentions
Selected Articles
- Matthew Eisenson, Overcoming Unreasonably Burdensome Restrictions on the Use of Farmland for Solar Generation, 75 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 117
- Tracy D. Hester, Spinning Off Carbon: Corporate Restructuring in a Climate Bankrupt World, 32 N.Y.U. Env’t L.J. 339
- Temple Stoellinger, et al. State Trust Land Revenue Diversification Through Conservation,