Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Environmental Law Reporter
Publication Date
8-2013
ISSN
0046-2284
Page Number
10643
Keywords
environmental law, scholarship, trends in publishing
Disciplines
Environmental Law | Law
Abstract
The Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR) is published by the Environmental Law Institute's (ELI's) Environmental Law Reporter in partnership with Vanderbilt University Law School. ELPAR provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the best ideas about environmental law and policy from the legal academic literature. As part of the article selection process each year, Vanderbilt University Law School students assemble and review the environmental law articles published during the previous academic year. In this Article, we draw on the results of the ELPAR article selection process to report on trends in environmental legal scholarship for academic years 2008- 2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, and 2011-2012. Specifically, this Article reports on the number of environmental law articles published in general law reviews and environmental law journals. We find that although the total varied somewhat from year to year, more than 450 environmental law articles were published each year during the 2008-2012 period. This Article also includes data on the topics included in the environmental law articles reviewed by the ELPAR staff. In future issues, ELPAR will track additional data, such as author affiliations and student scholarship. The goal is to provide an empirical snapshot of the environmental legal literature and to track trends over time.
Recommended Citation
Michael P. Vandenbergh, Linda K. Breggin, Jacob P. Byl, Lynsey R. Gaudioso, and Seamus T. Kelly,
Trends in Environmental Law Scholarship 2008-2012, 42 Environmental Law Reporter. 10643
(2013)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/1505