University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 81 Issue 3, Summer 2010
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
David J. Hurlbut, Multistate Decision Making for Renewable Energy and Transmission: An Overview, is a senior analyst with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (“NREL”). He specializes in renewable energy infrastructure issues and electric utility regulation. He led NREL's technical support for the Western Governors’ Association in the first phase of its Western Renewable Energy Zone Initiative, and has advised several states in their efforts to identify areas for least-cost renewable energy development. Prior to joining NREL in 2007, he was a senior economist with the Public Utility Commission of Texas where, in addition to being lead staff on the agency's renewable energy policies, he monitored the Texas competitive wholesale power market for anticompetitive behavior, market power abuse, and violations of market operating protocols.
Ashley C. Brown, Siting Transmission Lines in a Changed Milieu: Evolving Notions of the “Public Interest” in Balancing State and Regional Considerations, is Executive Director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group (“HEPG”), a program of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The HEPG provides a forum for the discussion and analysis of important policy issues regarding the United States electricity industry. Its objectives are to address key problems related to the transition to a more competitive electricity market, to provide a forum for informed and open debate, and to supply a vehicle for contributing to the wider public policy agenda affecting the electric sector. Mr. Brown is also of counsel to the law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene and MacRae in Boston, MA and has served as an advisor to numerous governments around the world on infrastructure regulatory issues. Before his current activities, Mr. Brown served two terms as Commissioner of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio from 1983 to 1993. Prior to his appointment to the Commission, Mr. Brown was Coordinator and Counsel of the Montgomery County, Ohio, Fair Housing Center. From 1979 to 1981 he was Managing Attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Dayton, Inc. From 1977 to 1979 he was Legal Advisor of the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission in Dayton. While practicing law, he specialized in litigation in federal and state courts, as well as before administrative bodies. In addition, Mr. Brown has extensive teaching experience in public schools and universities.
Jim Rossi, Siting Transmission Lines in a Changed Milieu: Evolving Notions of the “Public Interest” in Balancing State and Regional Considerations, is Harry M. Walborsky Professor and Associate Dean for Research at Florida State University College of Law. His recent work focuses on the structural and legal barriers the electric power industry presents to the development of renewable power projects. He is the author of Regulatory Bargaining and Public Law (Cambridge University Press 2005) and a casebook, Energy, Economics and the Environment (Foundation Press, 3rd ed. 2010) (with Fred Bosselman, Joel Eisen, David Spence and Jacqueline Lang Weaver).
Robin Kundis Craig, Constitutional Contours for the Design and Implementation of Multistate Renewable Energy Programs and Projects, is the Attorneys’ Title Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Environmental Programs, and Co-Director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program at the Florida State University College of Law. She specializes in all things water, including the Clean Water Act, water and climate change, water and energy, coastal water pollution, the intersection of water issues and land issues, marine biodiversity and marine protected areas, and water law. She is the author of The Clean Water Act and the Constitution (ELI, 2nd ed. 2009) and Environmental Law in Context (Thomson/West 2005; 2nd ed. 2008), plus over fifty law review articles and book chapters. In addition, she has served on the National Research Council’s three Committees on the Clean Water Act and the Mississippi River, which culminated in the October 2007 release of the Committee’s report, Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities, the follow-up report on implementation of nutrient control measures in the Mississippi River Basin in November 2008, and a third set of work to be completed in 2010. Professor Craig also serves as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Marine Resources Committee, as Vice Chair of its Constitutional Environmental Law Committee, and as the Supreme Court News Editor for the ABA’s Administrative & Regulatory Law News. At Florida State, she teaches Environmental Law, Water Law, Florida Water Law, International Biodiversity Law, Administrative Law, Property, Civil Procedure, and seminars on Toxic Torts, the Environmental Intersection of Land and Sea, and the Clean Water Act, plus the Environmental and Land Use Law Certificate Seminar.
Elias L. Quinn, Envisioning the Smart Grid: Network Architecture, Information Control, and the Public Policy Balancing Act, worked as Senior Policy Analyst for the Center for Energy and Environmental Security before his current position clerking for Justice Alex Martinez on the Colorado Supreme Court, and has accepted a position with the Department of Justice to work as a trial attorney in the agency’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. He has published and presented both here and abroad concerning climate change and corporate governance and the effects of international trade law on carbon trading regimes. His work regarding the privacy considerations surrounding smart grid development was reported by national and international news providers and used to initiate and inform state rulemakings. His current research interests include the diffusion of innovations, change theories, and cognitive linguistics as applied within the legal profession.
Adam l. Reed, Envisioning the Smart Grid: Network
Architecture, Information Control, and the Public Policy Balancing Act, is an attorney and Research Fellow at the University of Colorado’s Center for Energy and Environmental Security. He researches, writes, and lectures in domestic and international law and regulation related to the deployment of various sustainable energy technologies and practices: geothermal energy; 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. He is an executive member of the Geothermal Academy at the Colorado School of Mines, a visiting professor at the School for Renewable Energy Science Graduate Program in Akureyri, Iceland, and 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.
Kelly Crandall, Trust and the Green Consumer: The Fight for Accountability in Renewable Energy Credits, received her Juris Doctor at the University of Colorado Law School where she served as a Casenote and Comment Editor for the University of Colorado Law Review. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida in 2006, earning a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science with a minor in Environmental Studies. She is also a LEED Accredited Professional with the U.S. Green Building Council. During law school, Ms. Crandall interned with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, the Boulder County Housing Authority, and the Center for Energy and Environmental Security, and clerked with the Colorado Office of Administrative Courts. Her current research focuses on renewable energy incentives and green building mandates enacted by local governments.