Richard L. Revesz

New York University School of Law

Lawrence King Professor of Law, Dean Emeritus

40 Washington Square South

New York, NY 10012-1099

United States

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Environmental Law and Policy

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Environmental Law and Policy

NYU Public Law Research Paper 82; NYU Law & Econ Research Paper 04-015; Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 102; KSG Working Paper No. RWP04-023
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 27 May 2004
Richard L. Revesz and Robert N. Stavins
New York University School of Law and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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environmental economics, environmental law, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, benefit-cost analysis, environmental federalism

Environmental Law and Policy

NBER Working Paper No. w13575
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 05 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2010
Richard L. Revesz and Robert N. Stavins
New York University School of Law and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Federalism and Environmental Regulation: A Public Choice Analysis

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 115, 2001
Number of pages: 127 Posted: 18 Dec 2001
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law
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Deconstructing Independent Agencies (and Executive Agencies)

98 Cornell L. Rev. 769 (2013), NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-44, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-23
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 06 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2016
Kirti Datla and Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
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administrative law, independent agencies, executive agencies, executive power, agency regulations, regulatory costs

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Regulatory Review, Capture, and Agency Inaction

Georgetown Law Journal, 2013, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-47, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-28
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 18 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2013
Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OIRA, cost-benefit analysis, capture, presidential power, administrative law, executive agencies, agency regulation, regulatory costs

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Markets and Geography: Designing Marketable Permit Schemes to Control Local and Regional Pollutants

Ecology Law Quarterly, Issue 28, July 3, 2001
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 26 Apr 2001
Richard L. Revesz and Jonathan Remy Nash
New York University School of Law and Emory University School of Law
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Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Structure of the Administrative State: The Case of Financial Services Regulation

Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2017, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-07, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 16-08
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 18 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2017
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law
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environmental regulation, judicial review, independent agencies, financial regulation, cost-benefit analysis

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Grandfathering and Environmental Regulation: The Law and Economics of New Source Review

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 102, 2007, Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 07-01, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-10, NYU Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-03
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Feb 2007
Jonathan Remy Nash and Richard L. Revesz
Emory University School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Environmental law, New source review, Grandfathering, Nonconforming uses

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Climate Change and Future Generations

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 84, p. 1097, 2011, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-38, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-59
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 29 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2014
Richard L. Revesz and Matthew R. Shahabian
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
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climate change, greenhouse gases, cost-benefit analysis, discounting, environmental regulation

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Environmental Law and Economics

Parisi, Francesco (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics. Oxford University Press (Forthcoming) , Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2014-06
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2014
Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Law and Economics; Regulated Industries and Administrative Law; Environmental Health and Safety Law; Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; General; Government Policy

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Anti-Regulation Under the Guise of Rational Regulation: The Bush Administration's Approaches to Valuing Human Lives in Environmental Cost-Benefit Analyses

NYU, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 04-014
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 17 Jun 2004
Richard L. Revesz and Laura J. Lowenstein
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
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environment, cost-benefit analysis, regulation

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Centralized Oversight of the Regulatory State

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 106, p. 1260, 2006
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 22 Dec 2010
Nicholas Bagley and Richard L. Revesz
University of Michigan Law School and New York University School of Law
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Rethinking Health-Based Environmental Standards

New York University Law Review, Vol. 89, 2014 Forthcoming, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2013-07, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-58, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 13-30
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 22 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2014
Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Law and Economics, Regulated Industries and Administrative Law, Environmental, Health and Safety Law, Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, Government Policy

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Ideology, Collegiality, and the D.C. Circuit: A Reply to Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards

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Ideology, Collegiality, and the D.C. Circuit: A Reply to Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards

As published in Virginia Law Review, Vol. 85, Pp. 805-851, August 1999 (NYU Law School, Public Law RPS Version)
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Jan 2000
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law
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Ideology, Collegiality, and the D.C. Circuit: A Reply to Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards

As published in Virginia Law Review, Vol. 85, Pp. 805-851, August 1999
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Aug 2001
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law
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Managing the Future of the Electricity Grid: Distributed Generation and Net Metering

NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-09, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 16-09, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2017 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2016
Richard L. Revesz and Burcin Unel
New York University School of Law and Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law
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net-metering, cost-benefit analysis, utilities, electricity, energy, distributive generation

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Quantifying Regulatory Benefits

California Law Review, Vol. 102, 2014, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-16, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 14-12
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 19 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2014
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law
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Law and Economics, Regulated Industries and Administrative Law, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law, Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, General, Government Policy

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Interest Groups and Environmental Policy: Inconsistent Positions and Missed Opportunities

45 Environmental Law Review 1 (2015), NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-67, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 14-40, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 5, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 16
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2018
Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Regulation and Distribution

New York University Law Review, Vol. 93, 2018, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 18-14, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-26
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 08 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2018
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law
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regulation, distribution, administrative law, regulatory policy

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Toward a More Rational Environmental Policy

Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 39, 2015, Forthcoming, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-68, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 14-41
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2014
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law
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Environmental Standards, Thresholds, and the Next Battleground of Climate Change Regulations

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 103, 2019, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-22, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 18-12
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 05 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2019
Kimberly M. Castle and Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
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environmental health-based standards, regulatory policy, cost-benefit analysis

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The Genesis of Independent Agencies

New York University Law Review, Vol. 92, 2017, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-22, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 17-19
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 02 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2017
Patrick Corrigan and Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Administrative Law, Independent Agencies

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Congress and the Executive: Challenging the Anti-Regulatory Narrative

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Congress and the Executive: Challenging the Anti-Regulatory Narrative

NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-42, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 18-32
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2018
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law
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administrative state, cost-benefit analysis

Congress and the Executive: Challenging the Anti-Regulatory Narrative

Michigan State Law Review, Visionary Article in Environmental Law and Regulatory Policy, 2018, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-42, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 18-32
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2019
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law
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administrative state, cost-benefit analysis

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Familiar Territory: A Survey of Legal Precedents for the Clean Power Plan

Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 46, No. 3, 2016
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 02 Mar 2016
Richard L. Revesz, Denise Grab and Jack Lienke
New York University School of Law, New York University (NYU) - Institute for Policy Integrity and Institute for Policy Integrity
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Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Power Plan, emission guidelines, regulation

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Strategic Voting on the D.C. Circuit?: A Case Study of Challenges to Health-and-Safety Regulation

New York University Law Review, Vol. 76, 2001
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 02 Jun 2001
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law
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Regulatory Change and Optimal Transition Relief

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 105, p. 1581, 2011, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-62, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-41
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2012
Richard L. Revesz and Allison L. Westfahl Kong
New York University School of Law and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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Environmental Regulation, Transition Relief, Grandfathering, Regulatory Standards

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Rethinking Health-Based Environmental Standards and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2016-10
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 04 Aug 2016
Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz
University of Virginia School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Managing the Future of the Electricity Grid: Energy Storage and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

42 Harvard Environmental Law Review 139 (2018), NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-27, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 17-25
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 30 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 10 May 2019
Richard L. Revesz and Burcin Unel
New York University School of Law and Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law
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cost-benefit analysis, utilities, electricity, energy, energy storage, energy policy, energy regulation

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The Biases of Risk Tradeoff Analysis: Towards Parity in Environmental and Health-and-Safety Regulation

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 69, p. 1763, 2002
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 02 Feb 2012
Samuel James Rascoff and Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Risk Tradeoff Analysis, Ancillary Risks, Ancillary Benefits

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Regulation in Transition

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 104, 2019
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 01 Apr 2019
Bethany Davis Noll and Richard L. Revesz
Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law and New York University School of Law
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presidential administration, administrative state, regulatory policy, abeyances, congressional review act, suspensions, executive branch, deregulation, trump, transitions, administrative law, regulation

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Institutional Pathologies in the Regulatory State: What Scott Pruitt Taught Us About Regulatory Policy

Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, Vol. 34, 2019, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Mar 2019
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law
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Administrative Law, Regulatory Policy, Environmental Policy, Deregulation, Environmental Protection Agency, Trade Associations

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Managing the Future of the Electricity Grid: Modernizing Rate Design

Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 44, 2020
Number of pages: 67
Richard L. Revesz and Burcin Unel
New York University School of Law and Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law
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electricity rate design, utility regulation, energy policy, distributed energy resources, cost-benefit analysis, utilities, electricity, energy-storage, energy policy, energy regulation

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Improve Economic Models of Climate Change

NATURE, Vol. 508 (2014)
Posted: 02 Jul 2018
Richard L. Revesz, Kenneth J. Arrow, Lawrence H. Goulder, Peter Howard, Robert E. Kopp, Michael A. Livermore, Michael Oppenheimer and Thomas Sterner
New York University School of Law, Stanford University - Department of Economics, Stanford University - Department of Economics, New York University (NYU) - Institute for Policy Integrity, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick/Piscataway, University of Virginia School of Law, Princeton University - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Göteborg University - Department of Economics

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Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health

Richard Revesz, Michael Livermore, RETAKING RATIONALITY: HOW COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS CAN BETTER PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT AND OUR HEALTH, Oxford University Press, March 2008
Posted: 28 Mar 2008
Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore
New York University School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law

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Federalism and Regulation: Extrapolating from the Analysis of Environmental Regulation in the United States

Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 3, No. 2, Pp. 219-233, June 2000
Posted: 04 Jul 2000
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law

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Litigation and Settlement in the Federal Appellate Courts: Impact of Panel Selection Procedures on Ideologically Divided Courts

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 29, June 2000
Posted: 25 Jan 2000
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law

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The Positive Political Economy of Instrument Choice in Environmental Policy

Posted: 16 Sep 1999
Nathaniel O. Keohane, Richard L. Revesz and Robert N. Stavins
Yale University - School of Management, New York University School of Law and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

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Environmental Regulation, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and the Discounting of Human Lives

Columbia Law Review, May 1999
Posted: 10 Nov 1998
Richard L. Revesz
New York University School of Law

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