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Sustainability Law Student Research Fellowship Program

The Sustainability Law Student Research Fellowship Program gives students opportunities to produce publication-quality articles on current legal and policy topics related to environmental sustainability.

Participating Fellows research and write full-length law journal articles on environmental sustainability law topics, receiving at least 10 iterations of faculty feedback during the research and writing process. They also workshop their project with other Fellows and give a formal presentation of their project to students from across the law school.

All 44 articles that Fellows have authored through this program during its inception have received publication offers in non-academic journals. These articles address such cutting-edge topics as:

Precision fertilizing
Wind and solar energy
Office-to-residential conversions
CO2 pipeline subsidies
Environmental justice

Application details

Past fellows and published papers

Marie Fredenberg and Lance Mora, Not for Sale: Preventing a Sell-Off of Federal Lands, Environs: Environmental Law and Policy Journal (UC Davis) (offer accepted).

Erin Johnson and Elizabeth Kness, Wildfire Zoning, Wyoming Law Review (offer received).

Jack Kapps and Dani Zylstra, Safeguarding Fracking Wastewater Disposal Rules, Wyoming Law Review (offer received).

Hannah Bernier and M’Elise Salomon, Salvaging Environmental Justice through City Hall, William & Marry Environmental Law and Policy Review (offer accepted).

Noah Edmonds and Jason Huang, Judicial Streamlining for the Energy Transition, Wyoming Law Review (offer received).

Connie Que and Jackson Pittman, Fertile Ground: Accelerating the Growth of Precision Fertilizing, Drake Journal of Agricultural Law (2024).

Kyra Toering and Natalie Heun, End Game: Designing Smarter Wind and Solar Decommissioning Requirements, Colorado Environmental Law Journal (2024).

Kiara Sims and Kate Hamman, Real Estate Recycling: Supporting Office-to-Residential Conversions, Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy (2024).

Taylor Stonerock and Julia Weiss, Pipe Dream: Rethinking CO2 Pipeline Subsidies, UC Law Environmental Journal (2024)

Wesley Gerad and Sukmani Singh, Empowered Neighborhoods: Supporting Community Microgrid Development, Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy (2024).

Mallory Moore and Lena Zeebuyth, Missing Middle Housing: Accelerating America’s Transition from Single-Family Zoning, 64 Natural Res. J. 63 (2024).

Kayna Lantz and Luke Sower, Fueling a Hydrogen Boom: Federal and State Policies for Promoting Green Hydrogen, 48 William & Mary Env’t L. & Pol’y Rev. 95 (2024).

Benjamin Timm and Alejandro Chavez, Shutting Off the Tap: Structuring Buy and Dry Programs for the Western Water Crisis, 60 Cal. W. L. Rev. 71 (2024).

Emily Doerfler and Cameron Toering, Stranded Costs and Double Standards: The Case Against Abrupt Changes to Net Metering Programs, 12 LSU J. of Energy Law & Res. 153 (2024).

Alexandra Gordon and Benjamin Longbottom, Beyond All Drought: Improving Urban Water Conservation in the West through Integrative Water and Land Use Policy, Natural Resources Journal (2023).

Sierra Apillanes and Alexa Penalosa, Unleashing Carbon Removal Technologies, Colorado Environmental Law Journal (2023).