David B. Spence

University of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society

Professor of Law, Politics & Regulation

2110 Speedway, B6000

CA 5.202

Austin, TX 78705

United States

https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/dspence/

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

Professor

727 East Dean Keeton Street

Austin, TX 78705

United States

University of Texas at Austin - Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law & Business

Affiliated Faculty

727 East Dean Keeton Street

Austin, TX 78705

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

27

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Top 21,316

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20

Scholarly Papers (27)

1.

Energy, Economics and the Environment: Cases and Materials

ENERGY, ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: CASES AND MATERIALS, Foundation Press, 2006
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Dec 2008
Fred Bosselman, Joel B. Eisen, Jim Rossi, David B. Spence, David B. Spence and Jacqueline Lang Weaver
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law (Deceased), University of Richmond - School of Law, Vanderbilt University - Law School, University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society and University of Houston Law Center
Downloads 1,809 (20,190)

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Energy Law, Environmental Law, Regulated Industries

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Federalism, Regulatory Lags, and the Political Economy of Energy Production

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2012, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 222
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 06 Mar 2012
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
Downloads 895 (56,446)

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Regulation, Federalism, Energy, Environment

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Can Law Manage Competitive Energy Markets?

Cornell Law Review, 2008, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 137
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2014
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
Downloads 632 (89,183)

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energy, public utilities, restructuring, law, competition

4.

The New Political Economy of Regulation: Looking for Positive Sum Change in a Zero Sum World

University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Business Working Paper No. 990415
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 May 1999
David B. Spence, David B. Spence and Lekha Gopalakrishnan
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society and University of Texas Law School
Downloads 621 (91,216)
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Introduction: Themes in Energy Law

Energy, Economics & the Environment, 4th Edition, Foundation Press, Forthcoming, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2014-38, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-38, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 694, U of Houston Law Center No. 2014-A-73, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 618
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2016
University of Richmond - School of Law, George Washington University - Law School, Vanderbilt University - Law School, University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society, University of Houston Law Center and The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law
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energy, environmental, textbook, casebook, governance, ownership, externalities, monopoly, risk

6.

Old Statutes, New Problems

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 553
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 10 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2014
Jody Freeman, David B. Spence and David B. Spence
Harvard Law School and University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
Downloads 440 (139,362)
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Sarbanes-Oxley as Quack Corporate Governance: How Wise is the Received Wisdom?

Georgetown Law Journal, 2007, McCombs Research Paper Series No. IROM-10-06
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 18 Nov 2006
Robert A. Prentice, David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
Downloads 433 (141,978)
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The Effects of Partisan Polarization on the Bureaucracy

SSRC Anxieties of Democracy Projects, Working Group on Polarization (2016)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 18 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2017
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
Downloads 371 (169,112)
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Ideology vs. Interest Group Politics in U.S. Energy Policy

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 95, p. 339, 2017, KBH Energy Center Research Paper No. 2017-1, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. E560, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. UTPUB635
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 13 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2017
David E. Adelman, David E. Adelman, David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin - Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law & Business and University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
Downloads 316 (201,200)

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Energy, Regulation, Public Utility, Environment

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Responsible Shale Gas Production: Moral Outrage vs. Cool Analysis

U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 403
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2015
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
Downloads 306 (208,388)
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Energy, Environment

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The Political Economy of Local Vetoes

Texas Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 552
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2014
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
Downloads 211 (300,706)

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The Political Economy of Local Vetoes

Texas Law Review, Vol. 93, 2014, KBH Energy Center Research Paper No. 2015-08
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 08 Jul 2015
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
Downloads 87 (616,674)

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state law, local zoning decisions, regulatory takings claims, state-local disputes, local vetoes, fracking, natural gas or oil from shale formations, cost and benefits of development, distributional concerns

12.

The Transformation of American Energy Markets and the Problem of Market Power

University of Texas Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 202, McCombs Research Paper Series No. BGS-01-11
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2014
David B. Spence, David B. Spence and Robert A. Prentice
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society and University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
Downloads 255 (251,406)

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13.

A Public Choice Case for the Administrative State

Georgetown Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 31 Mar 2000 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2013
David B. Spence, David B. Spence and Frank B. Cross
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society and Deceased
Downloads 235 (272,472)
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The Regulatory Contract in the Marketplace

Vanderbilt Law Review, Forthcoming, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper 2015-11, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper 2015-11, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. UTPUB626, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper, KBH Energy Center Research Paper No. 2016-3
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 10 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2016
Emily Hammond, David B. Spence and David B. Spence
George Washington University - Law School and University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
Downloads 218 (292,835)
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wholesale, electricity markets, grid, green energy, nuclear, regulatory contract, regulatory compact, ISO, RTO, FERC, NRC, EPA, Clean Power Plan

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A Public Choice Progressivism, Continued

Cornell Law Review, 2001
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 26 Mar 2001 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2014
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
Downloads 196 (323,539)
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Administrative law, Nondelegation doctrine, Public choice, Regulation

The New Politics of (Energy) Market Entry

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 18 Mar 2019
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
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The New Politics of (Energy) Market Entry

Notre Dame Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Mar 2019
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
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Energy Law, Administrative Law, Public Utility Law

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Fuels for Electric Power Generation: Regulatory, Policy, and Economic Pressures

Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (2d ed., Michael B. Gerrard & Jody Freeman, eds.) (Forthcoming), Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 2188906
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Dec 2012
David B. Spence, David B. Spence and Emily Hammond
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society and George Washington University - Law School
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greenhouse gas, electricity, natural gas, renewables, energy, climate change, nuclear, coal

18.

Naive Energy Markets

U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. E563, KBH Energy Center Research Paper No. 2016-10
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2016
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
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Regulation, energy, law and economics

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Paradoxes of Decarbonization

KBH Energy Center Research Paper No. 2016-11, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 565
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 30 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2016
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
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Regulation, 'Republican Moments,' and Energy Policy Reform

University of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 201
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2013
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
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Energy, Law, Politics

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The Shadow of the Rational Polluter: Rethinking the Role of Rational Actor Models in Environmental Law

California Law Review, Volume 89 Issue 4 Article 1, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 17
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 06 Dec 2000 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2013
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society
Downloads 93 (584,904)
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Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Regulation, Criminal Law, Regulatory Reform, Public Policy

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Bargaining Theory and Regulatory Reform: The Political Logic of Inefficient Regulation

Posted: 30 Mar 2000
David B. Spence, David B. Spence and Lekha Gopalakrishnan
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society and University of Texas Law School

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Agency Discretion and the Limits of Procedural Reform

Posted: 23 Mar 1999
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society

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The Law, Economics and Politics of Federal Preemption Jurisprudence

Posted: 23 Mar 1999
David B. Spence, David B. Spence and Paula C. Murray
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management

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Managing Delegation Ex Ante: Using Law to Steer Administrative Agencies

Posted: 01 Feb 1999
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society

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Imposing Liability as a Policy Choice: Holmesian 'Intuitions' and Superfund Reform

Posted: 02 Nov 1998
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society

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Administrative Law and Agency Policymaking: Rethinking the Positive Theory of Political Control

Yale Journal on Regulation (1997)
Posted: 29 Jul 1998
David B. Spence and David B. Spence
University of Texas at Austin - School of LawUniversity of Texas at Austin – McCombs School of Business – Department of Business, Government & Society

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