Steven Ferrey

Publications

• Into the Legal “Twilight Zone”: State Tenth Amendment Jurisdiction Displacing Climate Supremacy
  28 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 715 (2025) · Lewis & Clark Law Review · 2025
• Legal Asynchrony: Constitutional “Bridges” Inverting Elemental U.S. Technology
  95 U. COLO. L. REV. 575 (2024) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2024
• Cryptocurrency — Legally Navigating The “Highway to Climate Hell”
  30 UC L. ENV'T J. 25 (2024) · UC Law Environmental Journal · 2024
• Reading Between the Lines of the IRA + IIJA Power Gaps
  41 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 17 (2023) · Pace Environmental Law Review · 2023
• Flipped Constitutional Supremacy: Inferior Local Law Blocking Federal Policy
  2023 UTAH L. REV. (2023) · Utah Law Review · 2023
• Tightening the Legal ‘Net’: The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause Straddle of the Power Divide
  10 MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L. 415 (2021) · Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law · 2021

• Sustainable Development Arrested by U.S. Criminal Law
  68 AM. U. L. REV. (2019) · American University Law Review · 2019
• A LEGAL “JURISDICTIONAL TRAIN WRECK”
  59 SANTA CLARA L. REV. (2019) · Santa Clara Law Review · 2019
• Unforced Errors, Legal Fulcrum & International Climate
  20 MINN. J. L. SCI. & TECH. 115 (2019) · Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology · 2019
• ANTHROPOCENIC DISRUPTION IN WORLD ENERGY: RESPONSE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
  41 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 475 (2019) · Western New England Law Review · 2019
• Siting Technology, Land-Use Energized
  66 CATH. U. L. REV. 1 (2017) · Catholic University Law Review · 2017
• Moving the Legal Needle of Western Climate and Energy Options
  8 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 129 (2017) · San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law · 2017
• Net Legal Power
  53 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 221 (2016) · San Diego Law Review · 2016
• Subnational Discretion Mediating New Climate Regulatory Challenges
  7 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 31 (2016) · San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law · 2016
• Unresolved Judicial Conflict and Critical Infrastructure
  3 TEX. A & M L. REV. 581 (2016) · Texas A&M Law Review · 2016
• Superfund Chaos Theory: What Happens When the Lower Federal Courts Don't Follow the Supreme Court
  6 MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L. 151 (2016) · Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law · 2016
• Torquing the Levers of International Power
  15 WASH. U. GLOBAL STUD. L. REV. 255 (2016) · Washington University Global Studies Law Review · 2016
• California Challenges & Vulnerabilities of the New Business Model Design for Power
  6 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 1 (2015) · San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law · 2015
• Competitive Orders, the Final Monopoly, and the Second Most Important Invention in History
  8 KY. J. EQUINE AGRI. & NAT. RESOURCES L. (2015) · Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law · 2015
• Can the Ninth Circuit Overrule the Supreme Court on the Constitution?
  93 NEB. L. REV. 807 (2015) · Nebraska Law Review · 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) · William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review · 2015
• Constitutional Disputes in Multiple Dimensions: The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Sustainable Energy Law
  25 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 251 (2014) · Fordham Environmental Law Review · 2014
• Courts Cap the "Trade": Regulation of Competitive Markets When Courts Overturn State and Federal Cap-and-Trade Regulation
  117 W. VA. L. REV. (2014) · West Virginia Law Review · 2014
• Carbonite Legal Conflict in California
  5 SAN DIEGO J. CLIMATE & ENERGY L. 95 (2014) · San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law · 2014
• The Fifth Dimension: Legal Infrastructure, Cracks, and Governance
  15 MINN. J. L. SCI. & TECH. 469 (2014) · Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology · 2014
• Corporate Energy Responsibility: International and Domestic Perspectives on Supply and Demand in the New Millenium
  25 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 84 (2013) · Fordham Environmental Law Review · 2013
• Toxic "Plain Meaning" and "Moonshadow": Supreme Court Unanimity and Unexpected Consequences
  24 VILL. ENVTL. L.J. (2013) · Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - ) · 2013
• Auctioning the Building Blocks of Life: Carbon Auction, the Law, and Global Warming
  23 NOTRE DAME J. L. ETHICS & PUB. POL'Y 317 (2012) · Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy · 2012
• International Alchemy within the Post-Copenhagen World: Transforming Critical Infrastructure across Two Hundred Divergent Economics
  34 UC L. SF INT'L L. REV. 303 (2011) · UC Law SF International Law Review · 2011
• Fire and Ice: World Renewable Energy and Carbon Control Mechanisms Confront Constitutional Barriers
  20 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. 295 (2010) · Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum · 2010

• Gate Keeping Global Warming: The International Role of Environmental Assessments and Regulation in Controlling Choices for Future Power Development
  19 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 101 (2009) · Fordham Environmental Law Review · 2009
• Past Is Prologue: Recent Carbon Regulation Disputes in Europe Shape the U.S. Carbon Future
  16 J. ENVTL. & SUSTAIN. L. 650 (2009) · Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law · 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) · Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology · 2009
• Inverting the Law: Superfund Hazardous Substance Liability and Supreme Court Reversal of All Federal Circuits
  33 WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 633 (2009) · William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review · 2009
• Goblets of Fire: Potential Constitutional Impediments to the Regulation of Global Warming
  35 ECOLOGY L. Q. 835 (2008) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2008
• Corporate Governance and Rational Energy Choices
  31 WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 113 (2006) · William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review · 2006
• Power Future
  15 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. 261 (2005) · Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum · 2005
• Inverting Choice of Law in the Wired Universe: Thermodynamics, Mass, and Energy
  45 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1839 (2004) · William & Mary Law Review · 2004
• Nothing But Net: Renewable Energy and the Environment MidAmerican Legal Fictions, and Supremacy Doctrine
  14 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. (2003) · Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum · 2003