Energy & Utilities Law
Recognizing the Criminal/Civil Divide in the Use of Energy Data
Alexandra B. Klass & Elizabeth J. Wilson
Abstract Response to Professor Matthew Kugler and Meredith Hurley, Protecting Energy Privacy Across the Public/Private Divide In their 2020 Article, Protecting Energy Privacy Across the Public/Private Divide, Professor Matthew Kugler and recent law school graduate Meredith Hurley express concern that the “smart home” revolution poses dangerous privacy risks to homeowners who do not realize that […]
Protecting Energy Privacy Across the Public/Private Divide
Matthew B. Kugler & Meredith Hurley
Abstract Energy-usage monitoring can expose much of what takes place insidepeople’s homes and offices. As the “smart home” revolution continues,this data will only become more revealing. Though this information isessential for the development of the smart electric grid, it is also useful toa variety of others: law enforcement, energy-efficiency experts, andmarketers. At present, this data […]
Felix Mormann, Clean Energy Federalism
Abstract Legal scholarship tends to approach the law and policy of clean energy from an environmental law perspective. As hydraulic fracturing, renewable energy integration, nuclear reactor (re)licensing, transport biofuel mandates, and other energy issues have pushed to the fore front of the environmental law debate, clean energy law has begun to emancipate itself. The emerging […]
Victor B. Flatt, Essay: Adapting Laws For A Changing World: A Systemic Approach To Climate Change Adaptation
64 Fla. L. Rev. 269 (2012)|
Sarah Krakoff, Planetarian Identity Formation And The Relocalization Of Environmental Law
64 Fla. L. Rev. 1 (2011)| | Local food, local work, local energy production-all are hallmarks of a resurgence of localism throughout contemporary environmental thought and action. The renaissance of localism might be seen as a retreat from the world’s global environmental problems. This Article maintains, however, that some forms of localism are actually expressions, […]
David Markell and J.B. Ruhl, An Empirical Assessment of Climate Change In The Courts: A New Jurisprudence Or Business As Usual?
64 Fla. L. Rev. 15 (2012)| | | With the demise of climate legislation in Congress, and the Supreme Court’s rejection of climate-related lawsuits brought under federal common law, rapt attention has turned to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to bring greenhouse gases into the regulatory fold. Certainly, as the works in this special […]
Robert W. Adler, Balancing Compassion And Risk In Climate Adaptation: U.S. Water, Drought, And Agricultural Law
64 Fla. L. Rev. 201 (2012)|
Dave Owen, Critical Habitat And The Challenge Of Regulating Small Harms
64 Fla. L. Rev. 141 (2012)|
Hari M. Osofsky, Multidimensional Governance and the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
63 Fla. L. Rev. 1077 (2011)| | | ARTICLE :: This Article explores the governance challenges posed by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and proposes strategies for developing more inclusive, responsive institutions to help meet them. It begins by analyzing the incident through five core dimensions-vertical, horizontal, direction of hierarchy, cooperativeness, and public- private-to […]
R. Benjamin Lingle, Post-Kelo Eminent Domain Reform: A Double-Edged Sword for Historic Preservation
63 Fla. L. Rev. 985 (2011)| | | NOTE :: The preservation of historic structures provides communities across the nation with both a source of pride in our national history and a window through which to view that history. Governments’ powers of eminent domain have long served as a tool for historic preservation; however, eminent domain […]
Dale E. Ho, Silent at Sentencing: Waiver Doctrine and a Capital Defendant's Right to Present Migitating Evidence After Schriro v. Landrigan
62 Fla. L. Rev. 763 (2010) | | | | CASE COMMENT ::The consideration of mitigating evidence-evidence that weighs against the imposition of the death penalty in a capital defendant’s individual case-has been deemed a “constitutionally indispensable” feature of a valid capital sentencing scheme. And yet, Jeffrey Landrigan, like many capital defendants, was sentenced to […]
Jeff Fabian, Don't Tase Me Bro!: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Laws Governing Taser Use by Law Enforcement
62 Fla. L. Rev. 763 (2010) | | | | INTRODUCTION ::Financially destitute and homeless, a man began to sob after receiving a speeding ticket. When the man refused to sign the ticket, the ticketing officer arrested the man. The officer placed the man in handcuffs and began leading him to the patrol car. As […]
Christine A. Klein, Mary Jane Angelo, & Richard Hamann, Modernizing Water Law: The Example of Florida
61 Fla. L. Rev. 403 (2009) | | | | INTRODUCTION :: At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Earth, with its diverse and abundant life forms, including over six billion humans, is facing a serious water crisis. All the signs suggest that it is getting worse and will continue to do so, unless […]
Jessica Jackson, Much Ado About Nothing? The Antitrust Implications of Private Equity Club Deals
60 Fla. L. Rev. 697 (2008) | | | | INTRODUCTION :: In May 1976, with merely $ 120,000 and a few metal chairs left behind from a prior tenant, Kolberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) opened its doors. Though few people outside Wall Street circles knew of this start-up company, by the 1980s its […]
Bruce W. Burton, In Search of John Constable's the White Horse: A Case Study in Tortured Provenance and Proposal for a Torrens-Like System of Title Registration for Artwork
59 Fla. L. Rev. 531 (2007) | | | | INTRODUCTION :: At least forty percent of valuable artwork circulating in the marketplace is either forged or misattributed. Apart from this significant problem of art authenticity, the chains of title showing current ownership of many genuine and properly attributed objects are defective. These defects are […]
Simon A. Rodell, Antitrust Law: The Fall of The Morton Salt Rule in Secondary-Line Price Discrimination Cases
58 Fla. L. Rev. 967 (2006) | | | | TEXT :: Petitioner manufactures and sells custom-made heavy-duty trucks. Respondent and other Volvo dealers bid on sales to specific retail customers. In preparing bids, Respondent and other dealers routinely ask Petitioner for wholesale price concessions, which Petitioner grants selectively. Respondent sued in district court under […]