Research Fellows
Adam Reed

This individual is no longer with the Law School.

Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES)

481C Wolf Law Building
401UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO  80309-0401
Phone: (303) 492-3102
E-mail: adam.reed@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae:  View (PDF format)

Educational Background:
J.D.   University of Colorado Law School   2008  
B.A.   Southern Methodist University   2003   summa cum laude, honors in the liberal arts

Bio:
Adam Reed researches, writes, and lectures in domestic and international law and regulation related to the deployment of sustainable energy technologies and practices, specifically: biofuels sustainability; electric utility and smart grid regulation; legal regimes for carbon capture and geological, terrestrial, and other sequestration techniques; global and domestic carbon policy; and legal frameworks and capital market strategies to address energy poverty in the developing world.

Adam holds several additional appointments beyond his research faculty position at Colorado Law. He is an executive member of the Geothermal Academy at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO, an academic center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and devoted to working with local communities to develop geothermal energy resources. He is also a visiting professor at the School for Renewable Energy Science Graduate Program in Akureyri, Iceland, where he teaches a masters-level course in energy market analysis and policy. He regularly provides advising, educational workshops, and talks to corporations, communities, students, academics, and policymakers interested in better understanding the legal, policy, and market dynamics of sustainable energy.


Forthcoming

Reed (with Andrew Harley, Ron Larson, Hugh McLaughlin, and Christoph Steiner), United States Biochar Initiative (USBI) Biochar Report 2010, United States Biochar Initiative (USBI) (forthcoming 2010).
Smart Grid, Smart People? Legal and Regulatory Opportunities for Catalyzing Social Change through the Smart Grid, (forthcoming 2010).
Reed (with Julie Teel et al.), International Environmental Law Committee 2009 Year in Review, in American Bar Association Environment, Energy and Resources Law (forthcoming 2010).

Articles

Reed (with Elias Quinn), Envisioning a National Smart Grid: Legal Architecture and the Importance of Interstate Coordination, 81 Colo. L. Review __ (2010).
Reed (with Kevin Doran et al.), International Environmental Law Committee 2008 Year, in Review, in American Bar Association Environment, Energy and Resources Law (2009).
Life-Cycle Analysis and Renewable Fuel Goals: A Regulator's Scylla and Charybdis, (Poster) Copenhagen Climate Congress Session 18: Potentials and Limitations of Biofuels (2009).
Reed (with Ryan Gill), Policy and Technical Implications of Biofuel Life Cycle Analysis, Colorado Center for Biofuels and Biorefining Newsletter (2008).
Reed (with Kevin Doran and Lakshman Guruswamy), International Environmental Law Committee 2007 Year in Review, in American Bar Association Environment, Energy and Resources Law (2008).

Other Publications

Reed (with Devin Coughlin, Julie Teel, Jonah Levine, and Kevin Doran), Colorado Energy Profile Final Technical Narrative Report, Report for the Colorado Governor's Energy Office, Center for Energy and Environmental Security (2009).
Life-Cycle Analysis and Renewable Fuel Goals: A Regulator's Scylla and Charybdis, (Poster) Copenhagen Climate Congress Session 18: Potentials and Limitations of Biofuels (2009).

Book Chapters

Reed (with Jane C. Luxton, Lakshman Guruswamy, Kevin L. Doran & Elias Quinn), International Environmental Law, in Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year in Review 2007, at 97 (Irma Russell & Gary Allison et al. eds., Am. Bar Ass'n) (2008).