Steven Ferrey

• BA, Pomona College
• MA, JD, University of California, Berkeley

Articles

• “Null Climate Federalism: State Frustration of Federal Renewable Energy Entitlements,” 39 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 1 (2021)
• “’The Green New Deal'; Constitutional Limitations; Rerouting Green Technology,” 44 Vermont Law Review 777 (2020)
• “Against the Wind—Sustainability, Migration, Presidential Discretion,” 44 Columbia University Journal Of Environmental Law 341 (2019)
• “Sustainable Development Arrested by U.S. Criminal Law,” 68 American University Law Review 2145 (2019)
• “A Legal ‘Jurisdictional Trainwreck,’” 59 Santa Clara Law Review 1 (2019)
• “Counter-Intuitive Climate Forcing: Post Paris Agreement Corporate Incentives,” 43 Vermont Law Review 629 (2019)
• “Anthropocenic Disruption in World Energy: Response of International Law,” 41 Western New England Law Review 475 (2019)
• “Unforced Errors, Legal Fulcrum & International Climate,” 20 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science, & Technology 115 (2019)
• “ZEC Oscillations in the Commerce Clause,” 19 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 365 (2018)
• “Rewired Infrastructure Post Paris,” 33 Connecticut Journal of International Law 328 (2019)
• Phantom Regulation: New Supreme Court Algorithm Changing Executive Power, 3 U. PA. J. L. & PUB. AFF. 107 (2018)
• Black Swan Reconfiguration: Legal Separation of American Powers, 43 VT. L. REV. 29 (2018)
• Supreme Court Shifts Supremacy Doctrine – Preempting State Sustainability?, 50 ARIZ. ST. L. J. 515 (2018)
• The Supreme Court’s Constitutional "Bright Line": Preempting Authority of 47 of 50 States, 10 NE. U. L. REV. 143 (2018)
• The Second Element, First Priority, 24 B.U. J. SCI. & TECH. L. 41 (2018)
• Mind the Gap: Supreme Court Contraction of Legal Discretion for the Executive Branch, 13 U. TEX. J. OIL GAS & ENERGY L. 119 (2018)
• Supreme Court Strips States of Their Power over the World’s Second Most Important Technology, 69 BAYLOR L. REV. 315 (2017)
• Chaos Theory: What Happens When the Lower Federal Courts Don’t Follow the Supreme Court, 6 U. MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L. 151 (2017)
• The Poles of Power: Magnetic Bi-Directional Turn of the Meter, 8 GEO. WASH. J. ENERGY & ENVTL. L. 39 (2017)
• Siting Technology, Land-Use Energized, 66 CATH. U. L. REV. 1 (2017)
• Net Legal Power, 53 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 221 (2017)
• Eminent Domain and Serrated Power, 39 U. HAW. L. REV. 171 (2017)
• The Medium Is the Message, 35 VA. ENVTL. L.J. 213 (2017)
• Gone with the Wind: State Preemptive Power, 79 ALB. L. REV. 1479 (2017)
• Legal Challenges for "Leaving It in the Ground:" Touchstone Developments and Holdings, 47 ENVTL. L. REP. 10312 (2017)
• Moving the Legal Needle of Western Climate and Energy Options, 8 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 129 (2017)
• Unresolved Judicial Conflict and Critical Infrastructure, 3 TEX. A&M L. REV. 581 (2016)
• Torquing the Levers of International Power, 15 WASH. U. GLOBAL STUD. L. REV. 255 (2016)
• When a State Does the Circuit: State Administrative Discretion at the Jurisdictional Precipice, 21 NEXUS: CHAP. J.L. & POL'Y 21 (2016)
• Presidential Executive Action: Unilaterally Changing the World’s Critical Technology and Infrastructure, 64 DRAKE L. REV. 43 (2016)
• Pentagon Preemption: The 5-Sided Loss of Energy and Power, 2014 U. ILL. J.L. TECH. & POL'Y 393 (2015)
• Courts Cap the 'Trade': Regulation of Competitive Markets When Courts Overturn State and Federal Cap-And-Trade Regulation, 117 W. VA. L. REV. 681 (2015)California Challenges & Vulnerabilities of the New Business Model Design for Power, 6 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 1 (2015)
• State Refusal Triggers Constitutional Crisis: Past Is Prologue on Energy and Infrastructure, 34 REV. LITIG. 423 (2015)
• Competitive Orders, the Final Monopoly, and the Second Most Important Invention in History, 8 KY. J. EQUINE AGRIC. & NAT. RESOURCES L. 75 (2015)
• Ring-Fencing the Power Envelope of History’s Second Most Important Invention of All Time, 40 WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 1 (2015)
• International Power on "Power", 45 ENVTL. L. 1063 (2015)
• Legal After-Shocks on the Energy Seismograph: Judicial Prohibition of Recent State Regulation and Promotion of Power, 45 ENVTL. L. REP. 10523 (2015)
• Reinventing the Core U.S. Technology Through the Push of New Regulation Leveraging Market Pull, 31 FLA. ST. U. J. LAND USE & ENVTL. L. 1 (2015)
• Legal After-Shocks on the Energy Seismograph: Judicial Prohibition of Recent State Regulation and Promotion of Power, 45 ENVTL. L. REP. 10523 (2015)
• Reinicilizando Los Vinculos Del Derecho Internacional: Mecanismos Y Protocolos De La Cop 20, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru Law School Revista Derecho & Sociedad, (2014) (published in Spanish language in law review)
• Court Limitations on 'Cap-and-Trade' Regulation, 4 INT’L J.L. & LEGIS.77 (2014)
• The Carbon Suite in the Hotel California: "We are all Prisoners Here, of our Own Device," 23 U.S.C. INTERDISC. L.J. 451 (2014)
• Carbon Outlasts the Law: States Walk the Constitutional Line, 41 B.C.ENVTL. AFF. L. REV. 309 (2014)
• Constitutional Disputes in Multiple Dimensions: The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Sustainable Energy, 25 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 251 (2014)
• The Fifth Dimension: Legal Infrastructure, Cracks, and Governance, 15 MINN. J.L. SCI. & TECH. 469 (2014)
• Solving the Multimillion Dollar Constitutional Puzzle Surrounding State "Sustainable" Energy Policy, 49 WAKE FOREST L. REV.121 (2014)
• Carbonite Legal Conflict in California, 5 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 95 (2014)
• Wrinkles in the Administrative Fabric: Regulatory Initiatives and California Economic Development, 20 NEXUS: CHAP. J.L. & POL'Y 17 (2014)
• The Double Helix of Supremacy and Commerce Clause Constitutional Restraints Encircling the New Energy Frontier, 7 NW. INTERDISC. L. REV. 1 (2014)
• Can the Ninth Circuit Overrule the Supreme Court on the Constitution, 93 NEBRASKA L. REV. 807 (2014)
• Broken at Both Ends: The Need to Reconnect Energy and Environment, 65 SYRACUSE L. REV. 53 (2014)
• Virtual 'Nets" and Law: Power Navigates the Supremacy Clause, 24 GEORGETOWN INT'L ENVTL. L. REV. 267 (2013)
• Corporate Energy Responsibility: International and Domestic Perspectives on Supply and Demand in the New Millennium, 25 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 84 (2013)
• State Wars - The Empire Strikes Back, 65 BAYLOR L. REV. 1 (2013)
• Plain Meaning and Moonshadow: Supreme Court Unanimity and Unexpected Consequences, 24 VILL. ENVTL. L.J. 1 (2013)
• Administrative Restructuring and Renewable Energy: Best Legal Practices in Developing Economies, 3 J.L. & LEGIS 91 (2013)
• Alternative Energy in a Spaghetti Western, 32 UTAH ENVTL. L. REV. 279 (2012)
• Efficiency in the Regulatory Crucible: Navigating 21st Century 'Smart' Technology and Power, 3 GEO. WASH. J. ENERGY & ENVTL. L. 1 (2012)
• Follow the Money! Article I and Article VI Constitutional Barriers to Renewable Energy in the U.S. Future, 17 VA J.L. & TECH. 89 (2012)
• Earth, Air, Water & Fire: The Classical Elements Confront Land and Energy, 27 J. LAND USE & ENVTL. L. 259 (2012)
• Changing Venue of International Governance and Finance: Exercising Legal Control over the $100 Billion per Year Climate Fund, 30 U. WIS. J. INT'L L. 26 (2012)
• A Comparison of Renewable Portfolio Standards and Feed-In Tariffs as Legislative Mechanisms to Provide Renewable Power Incentives: Impacts on Power Supply, Transmission, and Grid Intermittency, 1 KLRI J.L. & LEGIS. 93 (2011)
• The New Climate Metric: The Sustainable Corporation and Energy, 46 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 383 (2011)
• Threading the Constitutional Needle with Care: The Commerce Clause Threat to the New Infrastructure of Renewable Power, 7 TEX. J. OIL, GAS & ENERGY L. 59 (2011)
• International Alchemy within the Post-Copenhagen World: Transforming Critical Infrastructure across Two Hundred Divergent Economies, 34 HASTINGS INT'L & COMP. L. REV. 303 (2011)
• Cubing the Kyoto Protocol: Post-Copenhagen Regulatory Reforms to Reset the Global Thermostat, 28 UCLA J. ENVTL.L. & POL'Y 343 (2010)
• The Ruggie United Nations Principles Framing International Indigenous Human Rights, 33 SUFFOLK TRANSNAT'L L. REV. 409 (2010)
• FiT in the USA: Constitutional Questions About State-Mandated Renewable Tariffs, 148 :6 PUBLIC UTILITIES FORTNIGHTLY 60 (2010)
• Post-Copenhagen: The 'New' Math, Legal 'Additionality" and Climate Warming, 23 :3 ELECTRICITY J. 6 (2010)
• Renewable Energy and International Climate Controls, ELECTRICITY J. (2010)
• The Failure of International Global Warming Regulation to Promote Needed Renewable Energy, 37 B.C. ENVTL. AFF. L. REV. 67 (2010)
• Fire and Ice: World Renewable Energy and Carbon Control Mechanisms Confront Constitutional Barriers, 20 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. 125 (2010) (lead author with co-authors)
• Restructuring a Green Grid: Legal Challenges to Accommodate New Renewable Energy Infrastructure, 39 ENVTL. L. (Lewis and Clark Law School) 977 (2010)
• Past is Prologue: Recent Carbon Regulation Disputes in Europe Shape the U.S. Carbon Future, 16 MO. ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 650 (2009)
• The Superfund Cost Allocation Liability Conflicts Among the Federal Courts, 11 VT. J. ENVTL. L. 249 (2009)
• Auctioning the Building Blocks of Life: Carbon Auction, the Law and Global Warming, 23 NOTRE DAME J.L. ETHICS & PUB. POL'Y 317 (2009)
• When 1 + 1 No Longer Equals 2: The New Math of Legal "Additionality' Controlling World and U.S. Global Warming Regulation, 10 MINN. J.L. SCI. & TECH. 591 (2009)
• Inverting the Law: Superfund Hazardous Waste Liability and Supreme Court Reversal of Federal Circuits, 33 WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 633 (2009)
• Gatekeeping Global Warming: The International Role of Environmental Assessments and Regulation in Controlling Choices for Future Power Development, 19 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 101 (2009)
• The Missing International Link for Carbon Control, 22 :3 ELECTRICITY J. 17 (2009)
• Carbon and the Constitution: State GHG Policies Confront Federal Roadblocks, 147 :4 PUBLIC UTILITIES FORTNIGHTLY 40 (2009)
• Goblets of Fire: Potential Constitutional Impediments to the Regulation of Global Warming, 35 ECOLOGY L.Q. 835 (2008)
• Power Paradox: The Algorithm of Carbon and International Development, 19 STAN. L. & POL'Y REV. 510 (2008)
• Corporate Responsibility and Carbon-Based Life Forms, 35 B.C. ENVTL. AFF. L. REV. 419 (2008)
• Why Electricity Matters, Developing Nations Matter, and Asia Matters Most of All, 15 N.Y.U. ENVTL. L.J. 113 (2007)
• Converting Brownfield Environmental Negatives into Energy Positives, 34 B.C. ENVTL. AFF. L. REV. 417 (2007)
• Corporate Governance and Rational Energy Choices, 31 WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 113 (2006)
• Renewable Orphans: Adopting Legal Renewable Standards at the State Level, 19 ELECTRICITY J. 52 (2006)
• Constitutional Barriers Confronting State Renewable Energy Programs, 3 :3 ENERGY COMMITTEE'S NEWSL. 1 (2006)
• Power Future, 15 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. 261 (2005)
• Inverting Choice of Law in the Wired Universe: Thermodynamics, Mass, and Energy, 45 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1839 (2004)
• Sustainable Energy, Environmental Policy, and States' Rights: Discerning the Energy Future Through the Eye of the Dormant Commerce Clause, 12 N.Y.U. ENVTL. L.J. 507 (2004)
• Soft Paths, Hard Choices: Environmental Lessons in the Aftermath of California's Electric Deregulation Debacle, 23 VA. ENVTL. L.J. 251 (2004)
• Net Zero: Distributed Generation and FERC's MidAmerican Decision, 17 ELECTRICITY J. 33 (2004)
• Nothing but Net: Renewable Energy and the Environment, MidAmerican Legal Fictions, and Supremacy Doctrine, 14 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. 1 (2003)
• Exit Strategy: State Legal Discretion to Environmentally Sculpt the Deregulating Electric Environment, 26 HARVARD ENVTL. L. REV. 109 (2002)
• The Eagles of Deregulation: The Role of the Courts in a Restructured Environment, 32 ENVTL. L. 297 (2002)
• Defining Power: Electrons and the Law, 32 ENVTL. L. REP. (ENVTL. LAW INST.) 10038 (2002)
• Electricity, Contract Rules, and the Environment: Welcome to the Hotel California, 31 ENVTL. L. REP. (ENVTL. LAW INST.) 11475 (2001)
• No Exit: Shaping the New Electric Market, 13 :5 ELECTRICITY J. 30 (2000)
• Renewable Subsidies in the Age of Deregulation, 135 :22 PUBLIC UTILITIES FORTNIGHTLY 22 (1997)
• The QF Cost Dilemma: PURPA Enforcement and Deregulation, 10 :2 ELECTRICITY J. 62 (1997)
• In From the Cold: Energy Efficiency and the Reform of HUD's Utility Allowance System, 32 HARVARD J. ON LEGIS. 145 (1995)
• The New Wave: Superfund Allocation Strategies and Outcomes, 25 ENV'T REP. (BNA) 790 (1994)
• Allocation and Uncertainty in the Age of Superfund: A Critique of the Redistribution of CERCLA Liability, 3 N.Y.U. ENVTL. L.J. 36 (1994)
• Shaping American Power: Federal Preemption and Technological Change, 11 VA. ENVTL. L.J. 47 (1991)
• The Electric Wheel of Fortune, 10 AMICUS J. 10 (1988)
• Hard Times, 10 AMICUS J. 111 (1988)
• The Toxic Time Bomb: Municipal Liability for the Cleanup of Hazardous Waste, 57 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 197 (1988)
• Toxic Shell Game, 9 :3 AMICUS J. 7 (1987)
• Cold Power: Energy and Public Housing, 23 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 33 (1986)
• HUD Utility Allowance Program Spawns More Disputes with Public Housing Tenants, 19 :7 CLEARINGHOUSE REV. 737 (1985)
• Electric Power in America, 5 :3 AMICUS J. 4 (1984)
• The Frost Belt Tightens, 4 :3 AMICUS J. 38 (1983)
• The Third World's Wood Crisis, AMICUS J. (1982)
• Urban Solutions, AMICUS J. (1982)
• Solar Banking: Constructing New Solutions to the Urban Energy Crisis, 18 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 483 (1981)
• Eclipsing the Cities, J. AMER. PLANNING ASS'N (1979)
• Energy Needs of the Poor: A Saga of Ongoing Legislative Neglect and Local Abuse, 11 :4 CLEARINGHOUSE REV. 331 (1977)
• The Ghosts of Cold November: An Examination of HUD's Energy Conservation Policy for the Poor, 11 :1 CLEARINGHOUSE REV. 1 (1977)

Books

• THE LAW OF INDEPENDENT POWER: DEVELOPMENT, COGENERATION, UTILITY REGULATION (2020)
• THE LAW OF INDEPENDENT POWER: DEVELOPMENT, COGENERATION, UTILITY REGULATION (2021)
• ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS (9th ed., 2022)
• THE LAW OF INDEPENDENT POWER: DEVELOPMENT, COGENERATION, UTILITY REGULATION (2019)
• ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS (8th ed. 2019)
• THE LAW OF INDEPENDENT POWER: DEVELOPMENT, COGENERATION, UTILITY REGULATION (2018)
• THE LAW OF INDEPENDENT POWER: DEVELOPMENT, COGENERATION, UTILITY REGULATION (2017)
• THE LAW OF INDEPENDENT POWER: DEVELOPMENT, COGENERATION, UTILITY REGULATION (2016)
• ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS (7th ed., 2016)
• THE LAW OF INDEPENDENT POWER: DEVELOPMENT, COGENERATION, UTILITY REGULATION (2015)
• ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS (6th ed., 2013)
• THE LAW OF INDEPENDENT POWER: DEVELOPMENT, COGENERATION, UTILITY REGULATION (Thomson/West, 2013)
• ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (5th ed., 2010)
• ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS (Aspen, 2010)
• UNLOCKING THE GLOBAL WARMING TOOLBOX: KEY CHOICES FOR CARBON RESTRICTION AND SEQUESTRATION (PennWell Publishing, 2010)
• RENEWABLE POWER IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: WINNING THE WAR ON GLOBAL WARMING (2006) (with Dr. Anil Cabraal)
• ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS (3d. ed., 2004)
• THE NEW RULES: A GUIDE TO ELECTRIC MARKET REGULATION (2001)
• ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS (2d ed., 2001)
• FOSTERING EQUITY IN URBAN CONSERVATION (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, 1982) (co-author)

Book Chapters

• Methane and Climate Change, in LEGAL PATHWAYS TO DEEP DECARBONIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES, (M. Gerrard & J. Dernbach eds., 2019) (with Romany M. Webb)
• Methane, in LEGAL PATHWAYS TO DEEP DECARBONIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: SUMMARY AND KEY RECOMMENDATIONS, (M. Gerrard & J. Dernbach eds., 2018) (with Romany M. Webb)
• Chapter, in CLIMATE JUSTICE: CASE STUDIES IN GLOBAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES (ELI Press, R. Abate ed., 2017)
• Chapter, in CLIMATE LAW ENCYCLOPEDIA (Edward Elgar Pub., D. Farber ed., 2016)
• Energy, in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CLIMATE CHANGE (Edward Elgar Pub., J. Sarnoff ed., 2016)
• Chapter on Intellectual Property Issues Affecting the Energy Sector, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CLIMATE CHANGE (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., J. Sarnoff ed., 2011)
• Chapter, in ENERGIZING THE FUTURE: SUSTAINABILITY, POLICY & ENTREPRENEURSHIP (Wake Forest Univ. Law School, S. Shapiro ed., 2010)
• Chapter in, K.K. DuVivier, ed.,, in THE RENEWABLE ENERGY READER (2012)
• Chapter on Revisions to the CDM Mechanism, in IMPROVING THE KYOTO CDM PROCESS (Berlin: Lexion Publishers, M. Mehling ed., 2012)
• Chapter, in SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (Kluwer Law International/Aspen, H.H. Lidgard, J. Atik and T. Nguyen eds., 2011)
• The Legal Dilemmas of the Kyoto Protocol for Carbon Control, in CLIMATE CHANGE: A READER (Carolina Academic Press, William H. Rodgers, Jr. et al. ed., 2011)
• Sale of Electricity, in THE LAW OF CLEAN ENERGY: EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLES (ABA Press, M. Gerrard ed., 2011)
• Debt and Equity Financing, in FINANCING RENEWABLE INFRASTRUCTURE IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES (U.S. State Dept. Agency for International Development, J. Hamrin ed., 2010)
• Legal Barriers to Sub-National Governance Techniques by U.S. States for Renewable Energy Promotion and GHG Control, in PROCEEDINGS OF THE U.N.I.T.A.R.- YALE CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE (United Nations; Yale University, 2010)
• U.S. Carbon Regulation, in CLIMATE CHANGE: A GUIDE TO CARBON LAW AND PRACTICE (Global Law and Business, Paul Watchman ed., 2008)
• Renewable and Decentralized Energy Options: State Promotion in the U.S., in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENERGY ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Taylor & Francis, Barney L. Capehart ed., 2007)
• Net Metering, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENERGY ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Barney L. Capehart ed., 2007)
• Power Purchase Agreements for Small Power Producers, in ESMAP KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE SERIES NO. 7 (The World Bank, 2006)
• Officer and Director Liability for Environmental Law Violations, in MINIMIZING LIABILITY FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT. (1998) (with Michael P. Last) (ALI-ABA Course of Study)
• Chapter, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE CONSUMER MOVEMENT (Stephen Brobeck ed., 1997)
• Expert Opinion, in ELECTRIC DEREGULATION (1997)
• Chapter 6, in IMPLEMENTATION OF SOLAR THERMAL TECHNOLOGY I (Cambridge: MIT Press, Ronal Larson and Roland West eds., 1996)
• Chapter, in 18:1 PUBLIC UTILITIES LAW ANTHOLOGY (1995)
• Introduction, in VOL. 15 PART 1 PUBLIC UTILITIES LAW ANTHOLOGY (1993)
• The Successful Project: The Power Market, Economics and Tax Aspects, in HOT TOPICS IN GOVERNMENT REGULATION (Suffolk Univ. Law School Advanced Legal Studies, 1993)
• Chapter on Venture Capital, in VENTURE CAPITAL MANUAL: INVESTMENT STRATEGY MANAGEMENT (Warren, Gorham & Lamont, Steven Lee ed., 1990)
• Officer and Director Liability for Environmental Law Violations, in MINIMIZING LIABILITY FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT (Philadelphia, Penn.: American Law Institute-American Bar Institute, 1989)
• Chapter, in WHAT WORKS: DOCUMENTING ENERGY CONSERVATION IN BUILDINGS (Washington, D.C.:American Council for Energy Efficient Economy, Jeffrey P. Harris and Carl Blumstein eds., 1984)
• Chapter, in DECENTRALIZED ENERGY (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982)
• Chapter, in IMPACT OF ENERGY PROBLEMS ON REAL ESTATE (Washington, D.C.: Practising Law Institute, 1979)