Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Environmental Law Reporter
Publication Date
7-2025
Page Number
5
Keywords
environmental law, article selection, scholarship
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 some of the most creative and feasible environmental law and policy proposals from the legal academic literature each year. The articles that are considered include all environmental law articles published in select law journals during the previous academic year. The law journal articles that are republished and discussed are selected by Vanderbilt University Law School students with input from their course instructors and an outside advisory committee of experts.
The purpose of this Comment is to highlight the results of the ELPAR article selection process and to report on the environmental legal scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic year, including the number of environmental law articles published in general law reviews versus environment-focused law journals and the topics covered in these articles. We also present the top 20 articles that meet ELPAR’s criteria of persuasiveness, impact, feasibility, and creativity. From the top 20 articles, we selected five articles to be republished in shortened form in this issue, including some with commentaries from leading practitioners and policymakers. This Comment provides an empirical snapshot of the environmental legal literature during the past academic year and provides information on the top articles chosen by ELPAR.
Recommended Citation
Michael P. Vandenbergh, Chloe C. Allen, Linda K. Breggin, and Sydney C. Schoonover,
Analysis of Environmental Law Scholarship 2023-2024, 55 Environmental Law Reporter. 5
(2025)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/1733