Sarah E. Light

University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department

Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics

3730 Walnut Street

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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6365

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Regulating Business Innovation as Policy Disruption: From the Model T to Airbnb

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol.70:5:nnn, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper No. 17-24, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-18
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 14 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2017
Eric Biber, Sarah E. Light, J. B. Ruhl and James E. Salzman
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department, Vanderbilt University - Law School and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
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Business Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Policy Disruption

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The Role of the Federal Government in Regulating the Sharing Economy

in: Cambridge Handbook on the Law of the Sharing Economy (Nestor Davidson, Michèle Finck, and John Infranca, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press) (2018, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 Oct 2017
Sarah E. Light
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sharing economy, platform economy, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, federalism, anti-discrimination, consumer protection

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Private Environmental Governance (Encyclopedia Chapter)

Environmental Decision Making, Encyclopedia of Environmental Law, Lee Paddock, Robert L. Glicksman, and Nicholas S. Bryner eds., Edward Elgar, 2016
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 20 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2017
Sarah E. Light and Michael P. Vandenbergh
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Private governance, private regulation, private politics, instrument choice, environmental law

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The Law of the Corporation As Environmental Law

71 Stanford Law Review 137 (2019)
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 22 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2019
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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environmental law, climate change, corporate law, bankruptcy law, securities regulation, antitrust law

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Precautionary Federalism and the Sharing Economy

66 Emory Law Journal 333 (2017)
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 11 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2017
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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federalism, sharing economy, Uber, Lyft, precautionary principle, environmental law

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The New Insider Trading: Environmental Markets within the Firm

Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2015
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 09 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2015
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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environmental law, private environmental governance, carbon tax, cap-and-trade, market instruments, Microsoft carbon fee, British Petroleum emissions trading

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Parallels in Public and Private Environmental Governance

5 Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law 1 (2015)
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 30 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2016
Sarah E. Light and Eric W. Orts
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department and University of Pennsylvania - Legal Studies Department
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environmental law, private environmental governance, instrument choice, climate change

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Public and Private Procurement in Environmental Governance

Public and Private Procurement in Environmental Governance, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (Edward Elgar), volume on POLICY INSTRUMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (Ken Richards & Josephine Van Zeben, eds.), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 23 Mar 2017
Sarah E. Light and Eric W. Orts
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department and University of Pennsylvania - Legal Studies Department
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supply chain management, procurement, environmentally preferable purchasing, green procurement, private environmental governance

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The Military-Environmental Complex

55 B.C. L. Rev. 879 (2014)
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 29 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 23 May 2014
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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environmental law, climate change, renewable energy, military, Department of Defense, military-industrial complex

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Valuing National Security: Climate Change, the Military, and Society

61 UCLA Law Review 1772 (2014)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2014
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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military, national security, climate change, renewable energy, military-environmental complex

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NEPA’s Footprint: Information Disclosure as a Quasi-Carbon Tax on Agencies

87 Tul. L. Rev., 511 (2013), Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 289
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 10 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2017
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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Climate change, carbon tax, emissions, greenhouse gases, carbon footprint, social cost of carbon, NEPA, agencies, informational regulation, environmental law, regulation

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Banks and Climate Governance

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 121, pp. 1895-1955 (2021)
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 18 Oct 2021
Sarah E. Light and Christina Parajon Skinner
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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climate change, private environmental governance, private climate governance

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Insuring Nature

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 69, pp. 323-376 (2019)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 18 Nov 2019
Carolyn Kousky and Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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ecosystem services, insurance, climate change, environmental governance, private environmental governance

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Greenwashing & the First Amendment

Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming 2022
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 05 Aug 2022
Amanda Shanor and Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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First Amendment, Climate Change, Environmental Law & Policy, Constitutional Law & Theory, Marketing, Advertising, Commercial & Securities Disclosures, Commercial Speech

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Wrongful Benefit & Arctic Drilling

50 U.C. Davis Law Review 1845 (2017)
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 08 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2017
Nicolas Cornell and Sarah E. Light
University of Michigan Law School and University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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wrongful benefit, Arctic Drilling, climate change, fossil fuels, slayer rule, tainted goods, conflict diamonds, Arctic Council, keep it in the ground, business ethics

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Regulatory Horcruxes

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 67, p. 1647 (2018)
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2019
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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horcrux, administrative law, deregulation, regulatory exit, shared regulatory space, new governance, collaborative governance

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Advisory Nonpreemption

95 Washington University Law Review 325 (2017)
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 27 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2017
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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federalism, autonomous vehicles, HAV, AV, automated vehicle technology, vehicle safety, robots, preemption, advisory nonpreemption, AV, highly autonomous vehicles

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The Human Rights Injunction: Equitable Remedies Under the Alien Tort Claims Act

Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 9, p. 653, 1999, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 328
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2013
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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human rights, alien tort statute, injunction, public law, international law, comity

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Rejecting the Logic of Confinement: Care Relationships and the Mentally Disabled Under Tort Law

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 109, No. 381, 1999, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 327
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 06 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2013
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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torts, disability, mental, confinement, least restrictive environment, duty of care

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National Parks, Incorporated

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 169, No. 1, p. 33, 2020
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 15 Jan 2021
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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public lands, environmental law, corporate social responsibilty, cause-related marketing, halo effect

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Foreword: Regulating Toxic Chemicals Through Precautionary Federalism

Penn Undergraduate Law Journal, 2016, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 16 Oct 2016
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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precautionary principle, precautionary federalism, toxic chemicals, TSCA

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The Military-Environmental Complex and the Courts

Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2017
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Aug 2017
Sarah E. Light
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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Military-Environmental Complex, Environmental Law, Climate Change, National Security, Judicial Review, Green Procurement