Environmental Law & Policy Annual Review
New in 2008: Annual Scholarly Review Debuts
Students take the lead in publishing The Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review, a new joint publication with the Environmental Law Institute that will identify scholarly articles presenting the best legal and policy solutions to pressing environmental problems.
Working on the review will afford students the opportunity to identify the environmental articles in law journals that present the best policy-relevant ideas and publish a one-issue student-edited volume each year that includes reprints or summaries of the articles, along with commentaries from leading experts from the academy, business, government and non-governmental organizations.
Students involved in the review will screen environmental articles from general law reviews and environmental law journals and work with an advisor and an expert advisory board to select a small number of articles on the basis of criteria to be developed and modified on an annual basis by the students. Students will also participate in securing commentators and editing the selected articles and commentaries, which will be presented at an annual conference co-hosted by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) in Washington, D.C. Students will participate in the design of the conference and are invited to participate.
Work on The Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review qualifies for one academic credit per semester, and students have the option of working on the review for up to four semesters. Enrollment, open to interested second- and third-year students, is subject to the approval of the instructor, Professor Michael Vandenbergh, and limited to a maximum of 20 students per semester. Students will earn one academic credit each semester (up to a total of four credits over four semesters), and participation in this course does not preclude membership on the editorial staff of one of Vanderbilt Law School's three scholarly journals, which include The Vanderbilt Law Review, The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and The Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law.
