E. Donald Elliott

Yale University - Law School

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New Haven, CT 06520-8215

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Antonin Scalia Law School

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1.

Why the U.S. Does Not Have a Renewable Energy Policy

43 Environmental Law Reporter 10095 (Feb. 2013), Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 433
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 05 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2015
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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Renewable energy, Comparative energy policy

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The End Environmental Externalities Manifesto: A Rights-Based Foundation for Environmental Law

NYU Environmental Law Journal, Volume 29.3, Forthcoming , Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2021
E. Donald Elliott and Daniel C. Esty
Yale University - Law School and Yale Law School
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environmental law, natural law theories, Kaldor-Hicks efficiency

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Administrative Severability Clauses

124 Yale L.J. 2202 (2015)
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 05 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2021
Charles Tyler and E. Donald Elliott
George Washington University - Law School and Yale University - Law School
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severability, severance, severability clause, separability clause, deference, auer, chenery, Affordable Care Act

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A Primer on the Law of Oil Spills

ALI-ABA Advanced Environmental Law Conference, February 2011
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 Feb 2012
E. Donald Elliott and Mary Beth Houlihan
Yale University - Law School and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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Oil Spills, Oil Pollution Act (OPA), Clean Water Act

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Chevron Matters: How the Chevron Doctrine Re-Defined the Roles of Congress, Courts and Agencies in Environmental Law

Villanova Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 420
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2010
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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Chevron deference

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Twombly in Context: Why Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(b) is Unconstitutional

64 FLA. L. REV. 895 (2012).
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 19 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2012
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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Iqbal, Twombly, Summons, Civil Procedure, Costs of Litigation, Discovery, Pleading, Constitutional Law, Seizure, Due Process, Delegation to Private Parties

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U.S. Environmental Law in Global Perspective: Five Do's and Five Don'ts from Our Experience,

National Taiwan University Law Review, Vol, 2, 2010
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 17 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2020
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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U.S. environmental law

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The Tragi-Comedy of the Commons: Evolutionary Biology, Economics and Environmental Law,

Virginia Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 20, No. 17, 2001
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 16 Nov 2010
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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Environmental Law Tragedy of the Commons Law and Evolutionary Biology

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Politics Failed, Not Ideas

The Environmental Forum, Vol. 28, No. 5, p. 42, September/October 2011
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 02 Jan 2012
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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Environmental Law, Political Competition, Environmental Politics

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EPA's Existing Authority to Impose a Carbon 'Tax'

49 ELR 10919 (October 2019)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 16 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2019
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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Carbon Tax User Fees

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Lessons from Implementing the 1990 CAA Amendments

Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 40, No. 10592, 2010, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 419
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 17 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2010
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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Clean Air Act, implementation

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Private Product-Risk Assessment and the Role of Government

John Liner Review, Vol. 23, p. 72, Summer 2009
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 20 Nov 2010
E. Donald Elliott and Gail Charnley Elliott
Yale University - Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Product Liability, Due Diligence, Risk Assessment, Punitive Damages

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Portage Strategies for Adapting Environmental Law and Policy During a Logjam Era

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Portage Strategies for Adapting Environmental Law and Policy During a Logjam Era

NYU Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 17, p. 24, 2008
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2011
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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Portage Strategies, Chevron, Logjam, Experts, Environmental Law

Portage Strategies for Adapting Environmental Law and Policy During a Logjam Era

NYU Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2008, Breaking the Logjam: Environmental Reform for the New Congress and Administration Paper
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2019
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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EPA in the Trump Era: The Superfund Enforcement Initiative

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 24 Apr 2018
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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EPA, superfund, unilateral administrative orders

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Only a Poor Workman Blames His Tools: On Uses and Abuses of Benefit-Cost Analysis in Regulatory Decision Making About the Environment

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, p. 178, 2009
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 21 Nov 2010
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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Cost Benefit Analysis

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Book Review of Achieving Regulatory Excellence

Risk Analysis, Vol. 38, No. 8, 2018
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 07 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2019
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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Regulation

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Greater TTIP Ambition in Chemicals: Why and How

Paper No. 10 in the CEPS-CTR project ‘TTIP in the Balance’, CEPS Special Report No. 114/July 2015
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2015
E. Donald Elliott and Jacques Pelkmans
Yale University - Law School and Centre for European Policy Studies
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Retiring ‘No Look’ Judicial Review in Agency Cases Involving Science

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Mar 2021
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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Judicial Review, Deference, Science

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Rationing Analysis of Job Losses and Gains: An Exercise in Domestic Comparative Law

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2012
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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legal, scholarship, precedent, domestic, comparative law, job, losses and gains, OIRA review

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Administrative 'Health Courts' for Medical Injury Claims: The Federal Constitutional Issues

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 33, No. 4, p. 761, August2008
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Feb 2011
E. Donald Elliott, Sanjay Narayan and Moneen Nasmith
Yale University - Law School, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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health courts, medical malpractice reform, jury trial

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Lessons for the Law from COVID-19: Alternative Histories to Define the Roles of Politics and Expertise in the Administrative State

Antonin Scalia Law School, Center for the Study of the Administrative State (CSAS) Working Paper 21-50, 2021
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2021
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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COVID-19, administrative state, alternative history

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A Critical Assessment of EPA’s Air Program at 50 and a Suggestion for How It Might Do Even Better

E. Donald Elliott, A Critical Assessment of the EPA’s Air Program at Fifty and a Suggestion for How It Might Do Even Better, 70 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 895 (2020) Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/caselrev/vol70/iss4/6
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2020
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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air pollution emission charges

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A Brief History of Requester-Pays and Other Incentive Systems to Supplement Judicial Management of Discovery

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 71, No. 6, 2018
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Jan 2019
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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civil procedure, discovery abuse, economic incentives

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Summary Report to the Global Pandemic Network Concerning Responses to COVID-19 in the USA

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 13 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2021
E. Donald Elliott
Yale University - Law School
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COVID, Pandemic, U.S. politics