The Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR) is published annually as a special issue of the Environmental Law Reporter (ELR) in collaboration with the Vanderbilt University Law School (VULS). Each year, Vanderbilt Law students work with an expert Advisory Committee, senior staff from the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and Vanderbilt law professors to identify some of the year’s best academic articles that present creative and feasible law and policy solutions to pressing environmental problems. Click here for the Methodology. 

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The result is a one issue, student-edited volume that includes condensed versions of the selected articles, along with commentaries from leading experts from the academy, law firms, business, government and non-governmental organizations.

In conjunction with the publication, ELI and Vanderbilt co-sponsor an annual conference at which the authors of the articles and article commenters present their ideas and views to an audience that includes business, government (federal, state, and local), think tank, and non-profit representatives.