The William Mitchell Law Review seeks authors for a symposium entitled The Future of Carbon Management Law, to be held on November 5, 2009. We seek papers and proposals that examine current issues, recent developments, and the future of this important area of law.
UPDATE (Sept. 17): the symposium will be rescheduled for sometime in January.
The symposium will include sessions on the basics of carbon management, market-based solutions, and regulation-based solutions.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
The role of the law in ordering and regulating carbon markets
Comparisons to similar market-based approaches, historical and international
Jurisdictional issues arising among local, state, regional, federal, and international carbon management authorities
Effective enforcement and regulation of carbon producers and carbon emissions as an alternative to, or in conjunction with, market-based solutions
Other alternative regulatory approaches to carbon management
Other topics relevant to carbon management are welcome.
Symposium participants will engage in panel discussions within each of these topics. Articles by symposium participants will be included in Issue 3 of the William Mitchell Law Review‘s upcoming Volume 36, which will be published in Spring 2010.
Proposals should be in the form of abstracts of no more than 500 words and accompanied by the authors resume or curriculum vitae. Authors whose proposals are selected will be expected to submit initial drafts of completed articles by October 20. The deadline for final drafts will be January 1, 2010.
Please direct inquiries and submissions to Executive Editor Laura Bartlow at laura.bartlow [at] wmitchell.edu. Submissions may also be mailed to our Editorial Office. Please note that the Law Review prefers electronic submissions.
