William Boyd

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Climate Change, Fragmentation, and the Challenges of Global Environmental Law: Elements of a Post-Copenhagen Assemblage

University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 32, No. 2, p. 457, Fall 2010, University of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-01
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 13 Jan 2011
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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Environmental Law, International Law, Global Governance, Climate Change, Deforestation, REDD

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Ways of Seeing in Environmental Law: How Deforestation Became an Object of Climate Governance

Ecology Law Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 843, 2010
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 21 Oct 2010
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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environmental law, climate change, deforestation, REDD, carbon, science & technology

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Just Price, Public Utility, and the Long History of Economic Regulation in America

35 Yale Journal on Regulation 721 (2018), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-19, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-31
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 10 May 2018 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2018
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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Public utility, economic regulation, price, commutative justice, economic coercion, moral economy, legal realism, institutional economics, history of economic thought

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Public Utility and the Low Carbon Future

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 1614, 2014, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-5
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 30 Jul 2014
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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public utility, regulated industries, electricity regulation, energy law, climate change, decarbonization, legal realism, institutional economics, law and economics, public choice

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De-Risking Environmental Law

Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 153, 2024, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 24-10
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 11 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2024
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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environmental law; administrative law; bureaucracy; knowledge practices; regulatory science; risk assessment; precautionary approach; toxic harms; pollution; public health; occupational health; law and political economy

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Genealogies of Risk: Searching for Safety, 1930s-1970s

Ecology Law Quarterly, Vol. 39, p. 895, 2012, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-1
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 19 Jan 2013
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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risk, precaution, environmental law, occupational health, food safety, radiation, toxics, pollution

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Ways of Price Making and the Challenge of Market Governance in U.S. Energy Law

105 Minnesota Law Review 739 (2020), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-23
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 31 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2021
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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Energy Law, Electricity Markets, Natural Gas Markets, Price Theory, Market Design, Public Utility, Law and Economics, Law and Political Economy, Legal Realism

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Accidents of Federalism: Ratemaking and Policy Innovation in Public Utility Law

63 UCLA Law Review 810 (2016), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-27
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 29 May 2016 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2016
William Boyd and Ann E. Carlson
UCLA School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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federalism, policy innovation, public utility, regulated industries, electricity regulation, energy law, climate change, decarbonization

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Law, Environment, and the 'Non-Dismal' Social Sciences

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-01
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 26 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 09 May 2012
UCLA School of Law, Yale University - Law School and Cornell Law School
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Environmental law, law and psychology, science and technology studies, global governance, risk regulation

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The Poverty of Theory: Public Problems, Instrument Choice, and the Climate Emergency

46 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 399 (2021), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 21-22
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 25 May 2021 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2021
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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environmental law, climate change, emissions trading, cap-and-trade, carbon pricing, instrument choice, regulation, law and economics, law and political economy, John Dewey, public problems

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Decommodifying Electricity 

97 Southern California Law Review 101, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 24-21
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 09 Jul 2024
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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energy law, electricity markets, neoliberalism, price making, market design, climate change, clean energy, affordability, law and economics, law and political economy, public utility, rate regulation

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Food Law’s Agrarian Question: Capital, Global Farmland, and Food Security in an Age of Climate Disruption

Forthcoming, Research Handbook on International Food Law (Michael Roberts ed., 2023), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 22-16
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 03 May 2022 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2023
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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Food, hunger, agriculture, farmland, climate change, land use, land grabs, dispossession, food law, international law, trade and investment law, financialization, climate policy, agrarian political economy, law and political economy

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The Curious Case of Greening in Carbon Markets

Environmental Law, Vol. 41, No. 73, 2011
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 Mar 2011
William Boyd and James E. Salzman
UCLA School of Law and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
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environmental law, environmental compliance markets, climate change, carbon markets, Gresham's law

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Wonderful Potencies: Deep Structure and the Problem of Monopoly in Agricultural Biotechnology

Engineering Trouble: Genetic Engineering and Its Discontents, Kelso and Schurman, eds., University of California Press, 2003, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-10
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 09 Jun 2012
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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agriculture, biotechnology, genetic engineering, patents, antitrust

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The Clean Air Act's National Ambient Air Quality Standards: A Case Study of Durability and Flexibility in Program Design and Implementation

In Lessons from the Clean Air Act: Building Durability and Adaptability into U.S. Climate and Energy Policy (Carlson and Burtraw eds., Cambridge 2019), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-34
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Sep 2019
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Clean Air Act, Instrument Choice, Policy Design, EPA, Air Pollution, Energy, Climate Change

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Environmental Law, Big Data, and the Torrent of Singularities

64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 544 (2016), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 169
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2016
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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Environmental Law, Big Data, Risk, Toxics, Pollution, Public Health, Expertise

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Deforestation and Emerging Greenhouse Gas Compliance Regimes: Toward a Global Environmental Law of Forests, Carbon, and Climate Governance

DEFORESTATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE: REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION, pp. 1-25, Bosetti & Lubowski, eds., Edward Elgar, 2010, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-09
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Jun 2012
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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environmental law, climate change, deforestation, REDD, carbon

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Controlling Toxic Harms: The Struggle Over Dioxin Contamination in the Pulp and Paper Industry

Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 21, No. 345, 2002, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-08
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 09 Jun 2012
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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Environmental law, tort law, toxics, risk regulation

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Climate Liability for Wildfire Emissions from Federal Forests

48 Ecology Law Quarterly 101 (2022), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 22-15
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 May 2022
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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Forests, wildfire, carbon emissions, climate change, climate policy, climate liability, federal public lands, forest policy, forest restoration, resilience

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With Regard for Persons

86 Law & Contemporary Problems 101 (2023), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 24-9
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Mar 2024
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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environmental law; administrative law; bureaucracy; knowledge practices; regulatory science; regulatory managerialism; risk assessment; precautionary approach; toxic harms; pollution; public health; occupational health; neoliberalism; law and political economy

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The Tax Struggle and Renewable Power

Tax Law Review vol. 79 no. 1 (2026); UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 25-20
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 13 May 2025
William Boyd
UCLA School of Law
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energy law, tax policy, public finance, fiscal regimes, fiscal sociology, energy transitions, renewable energy, electricity, neoliberalism. law and political economy, networks, platforms, and utilities law

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Barriers to Using Remote Sensing Data and Tools for Forest Governance in the Tropics

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Feb 2025
affiliation not provided to SSRN, New York University (NYU) - New York University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, World Resources Institute and UCLA School of Law
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Remote Sensing, tropical forest governance, institutional barriers, stakeholder interviews, remote sensing value chain

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Law, Environment, and the 'Nondismal' Social Sciences

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 8, pp. 183-211, 2012
Posted: 31 Oct 2012
UCLA School of Law, Yale University - Law School and Cornell Law School

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