You’ve seen our EELU 2024 State of the Environment Report—now check out the draft 2025 report! Released at our 3rd annual State of the Environment Conference this year, it highlights key environmental indicators for TN. Read it here: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…

What does the private sector have to do with climate change? A lot! Vanderbilt Law EELU Prof. Michael Vandenbergh and co-authors explain the importance of the private sector’s climate mitigation actions in an era of federal backtracking. Check it out here! theconversation.com/companies-will…

The EELU Program proudly marks three years with Senior Program Advisor Anne Davis. Her leadership in the Climate Law & Policy Lab, commitment to student learning, and stewardship of the State of the Environment Conference have been invaluable. Thank you, Anne!

ICYMI: The Spring 2025 EELU Newsletter went out today! Click here for a look at what our program has been doing this semester, and some glimpses at what’s to come! t.e2ma.net/message/6r7pog…

The 2025 State of the Environment Conference videos are out! If you’re interested in learning more about our panel discussions and pressing environmental issues in the Southeast, check out the recordings here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

🌿Scholarship spotlight!🌿 J.B. Ruhl of Vanderbilt Law and co-authors explore how complexity science can inform legal systems—drawing parallels with complex adaptive systems and bridging law & statistical physics. Read more: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

EELU has released another white paper in its series! Written by Caroline Cox and Jay Eischen ’25, this paper examines how electric grid climate resilience is governed in the TVA region. Check out the link below! cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-sub/wp-cont…

Our own Vanderbilt Law EELU Prof. Chris Serkin and co-author Jonathan Biss have released an op-ed, arguing that interpreting the Constitution should be like performing Mozart: not rigid or literal, but thoughtful, nuanced, and alive to context and change. nytimes.com/2025/05/03/opi…

🎓Happy Commencement Day! We’re so proud of all our EELU students who are graduating this year. If you’re interested in learning more about our program’s course offerings, check out our website! law.vanderbilt.edu/academic-progr…

🌿Scholarship spotlight!🌿 J.B. Ruhl of Vanderbilt Law breaks down the Supreme Court’s major shift on NEPA in The Conversation U.S.. The ruling boosts agency discretion & limits judicial invalidation of project approvals, reshaping federal environmental review. theconversation.com/supreme-court-…

Happy first day of classes! We’re excited to start this year and can’t wait to see what this semester holds. If you’re interested in learning more about the Program’s offerings, sign up for our quarterly newsletter here: signup.e2ma.net/signup/1972869…

New semester, new opportunities! 🌟 Check out the EELU Program’s courses on our website: law.vanderbilt.edu/academic-progr… and email [email protected] for research opportunities.

🌿Scholarship spotlight!🌿 Vanderbilt Law EELU Prof. Michael Vandenbergh and co-authors examine how stakeholders impose a 'moral boundary' on firms, holding them accountable for environmental harms in their supply chains despite limited legal liability. ilr.law.uiowa.edu/sites/ilr.law.…

The Environmental Law & Policy Annual Review—published by Environmental Law Reporter—is now available and features some of the best articles presenting legal and policy solutions to pressing environmental issues. Check out the 2025 ELPAR issue here! eli.org/sites/default/…

The Summer 2025 EELU Newsletter will be sent out tomorrow! If you’re interested in receiving our newsletter, sign up here: signup.e2ma.net/signup/1972869…

The EELU Program kicks off the year Sept. 2 with a faculty panel discussing their research, the program’s initiatives, and the future of environmental law in the Trump II era. We hope you can join us!

A friendly reminder that our EELU faculty lunch panel, discussing the future of environmental law in Trump II, is tomorrow at 12:10 p.m. We hope you can make it!

A huge thank you to our EELU faculty members, and PCG Lab Fellow Ethan Thorpe, for participating in today’s lunch panel. Stay tuned for event photos!

The EELU Program is pleased to host John Cruden, Principal at Beveridge & Diamond, for its 4th Annual Distinguished Lecture on Climate Change Governance on Sept. 15. We hope you can join us for an insightful discussion on the evolving landscape of environmental law.

🌿Scholarship Spotlight!🌿PCG Lab co-director Michael Vandenbergh, Fellow Ethan Thorpe, and Dr. Jonathan Gilligan explore what we know – and don’t know – about AI’s energy demand in their forthcoming article: ssrn.com/abstract=54008…