• Environmental Law Review Syndicate - Scholarship

    A Perfect Storm for Michigan’s Renewable Portfolio Standard?

    Sarah Stellberg is a third-year student at the University of Michigan Law School, where she is Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Click here to see the original post and leave a comment. In his June 7, 2013 opinion in Illinois Commerce Commission v. FERC,[i] Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit inserted two lines of dicta on the constitutionality of Michigan’s Renewable Portfolio Standard, or Public Act 295 (PA 295).[ii] By discriminating in favor of in-state renewable energy, he opined that…

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    Environmental Law Review Syndicate: First Post!

    The first student-written piece of scholarship submitted to the Environmental Law Review Syndicate is now available on the NYU Environmental Law Journal website! The piece, titled “A Leading Cause of Everything: One Industry That Is Destroying Our Planet and Our Ability to Thrive on It,” was written by Christopher Hyner, a 3L at Georgetown University Law Center and a Managing Editor for the Georgetown Environmental Law Review. Read the piece here.

  • Environmental Law Review Syndicate

    NYU Environmental Law Journal has joined the Environmental Law Review Syndicate!

    NYU Environmental Law Journal is part of a cooperative syndicate of leading environmental law journals known as the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. The Syndicate functions as a multi-school online forum run by student leaders of participating journals. Each week, a participating journal submits a student-written piece of scholarship for publication on each member journal’s website. Please direct any questions or inquiries about the Environmental Law Review Syndicate to: ELRSyndicate@gmail.com.