Publications

• Climate Regulation of the Electricity Industry: A Comparative View from Australia, Great Britain, South Korea, and the United States, 13 SOUTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & BUSINESS 109 (2017) (with Penelope Crossley, Peter Connor, Siwon Park, and Shelby Shaw-Hughes). Published, 05/2017.
• Making Sense of the Rapidly Evolving Legal Landscape of Solar Energy Support Regimes, 6 KLRI JOURNAL OF LAW AND LEGISLATION 81 (2016). Published, 01/2017.
• Emerging Shadows in National Solar Policy? Nevada’s Net Metering Transition in Context, 30 THE ELECTRICITY JOURNAL 33 (Jan.-Feb. 2017) (with Sanya Carley). Published, 01/2017.
• The Role of Natural Gas in the Clean Power Plan, 49 JOHN MARSHALL LAW REVIEW 325 (2016) (with Victoria Luman). Published, 11/2016.
• Incomplete Integration: Water, Drought, and Electricity Planning in the West, 31 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & LITIGATION 167 (2016) (with Victoria Luman). Published, 11/2016.
• Energy, Consumption, and the Amorality of Energy Law, 109 AJIL UNBOUND 147 (2015). Published, 01/2016.
• Fukushima’s Shadow, 48 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW 1083 (2015) (with Alexis Jones). Published, 12/2015.
• U.S. Renewable Energy Policy in Context, 15 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY 33 (2015). Published, 12/2015.
• Lincoln Davies & Joseph Tomain (2015). ENERGY LAW IN THE UNITED STATES. Wolters Kluwer Law and Business. Published, 12/2015. Published, 12/2015.
• Lincoln Davies & Joseph Tomain (2015). United States of America, INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAWS: ENERGY LAW. Wolters Kluwer. Published, 12/2015. . Published, 12/2015.
• Evaluating RPS Policy Design: Metrics, Gaps, Best Practices, and Paths to Innovation, 4 KLRI JOURNAL OF LAW & LEGISLATION 3 (2014). Published, 02/2015.
• Lincoln Davies, Alexandra Klass, Hari Osofsky, Elizabeth Wilson & Joseph Tomain (2014). ENERGY LAW AND POLICY: CASES AND MATERIALS. West Academic Publishing. Published, 10/2014. . Published, 10/2014.
• Feed-in Tariffs in Turmoil, 116 WEST VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 100 (2014) (with Kirsten Allen). Published, 06/2014.
• Understanding Barriers to Commercial-Scale Carbon Capture and Sequestration in the United States: An Empirical Assessment, 59 ENERGY POLICY 745 (2013) (with Kirsten Uchitel and John Ruple). Published, 08/2013.
• Tracing U.S. Renewable Energy Policy, 43 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 10320 (2013). Published, 07/2013.
• Beyond Fukushima: Disasters, Nuclear Energy, and Energy Law, 2011 BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1937. Published, 12/2012.
• Reconciling Renewable Portfolio Standards and Feed-In Tariffs, 32 UTAH ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW 311 (2012). Published, 11/2012.
• State Renewable Portfolio Standards: Is There a 'Race' and Is It 'To the Top'?, 3 SAN DIEGO JOURNAL OF CLIMATE & ENERGY LAW 3 (2011-12). Published, 04/2012.
• Incentivizing Renewable Energy Deployment: Renewable Portfolio Standards and Feed-In Tariffs, 1 KLRI JOURNAL OF LAW & LEGISLATION 39 (2011). Published, 12/2011.
• Power Forward: The Argument for a National RPS, 42 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 1339 (2010). Published, 08/2010.
• Standing, On Appeal, co-authored with Amy J. Wildermuth, 2010 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 957 (2010). Published, 07/2010.
• Alternative Energy and the Energy-Environment Disconnect, 46 IDAHO LAW REVIEW 473 (2010). Published, 04/2010.
• Assured Water Supply Laws in the Sustainability Context, 4 GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL 167 (2010). Published, 01/2010.
• East Going West? The Promise of Assured Supply Laws in Modern Real Estate Development, 43 JOHN MARSHALL LAW REVIEW 319 (2010). Published, 01/2010.
• Skull Valley Crossroads: Reconciling Native Sovereignty and the Federal Trust, 68 MARYLAND LAW REVIEW 290 (2009). Published, 01/2009.
• Energy Policy Today and Tomorrow - Toward Sustainability?, 29 JOURNAL OF LAND, RESOURCES, AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 71 (2009). Published, 01/2009.
• Just a Big, 'Hot Fuss'? Assessing the Value of Connecting Suburban Sprawl, Land Use, and Water Rights Through Assured Supply Laws, 34 ECOLOGY LAW QUARTERLY 1217 (2007). Published, 01/2007.
• Lessons for an Endangered Movement: What a Historical Juxtaposition of the Legal Response to Civil Rights and Environmentalism Has to Teach Environmentalists Today, 31 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 229 (2001). Published, 01/2001.
• If You Give the Court a Commerce Clause: An Environmental Justice Critique of Supreme Court Interstate Waste Jurisprudence, 11 FORDHAM ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL 207 (1999). Published, 01/1999.
• Working Toward a Common Goal? Three Case Studies of Brownfields Redevelopment in Environmental Justice Communities, 18 STANFORD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL 285 (1999). Published, 01/1999.

Research Keywords

• Water Law
• Utility Law
• Renewable Energy
• Religion and the Environment
• Regulated Industries
• Environmental Law
• Energy Planning or Policy
• Energy Law
• Energy
• Courts and Litigation
• Carbon Capture and Sequestration
• Agencies and Administrative Law

Presentations

• Why Agencies, Appellate Courts, and Environmental Cases Don't Mix: A Fresh Look at Standing Doctrine, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources & Environmental Green Bag Lecture, Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 2010. Presentation, Presented, 11/2010.
• Alternative Energy's Silent Hurdle: The Energy-Environmental Law Disconnect, The 2010 Idaho Law Review Symposium - Energy Independence: Challenges Facing the West in Adopting Alternative and Renewable Energy Resources, Boise, Idaho, Apr. 2010. Presentation, Presented, 04/2010.
• Energy Law and Environmental Law: An Introduction, Introduction to Environmental Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Mar. 2010. Presentation, Presented, 03/2010.
• Transforming Cultures: An Essential Solution to Address Unsustainable Consumption and Population Patterns, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, Fifteenth Annual Symposium - The Challenge of Sustainability, Salt Lake City, Utah, Mar. 2010. Presentation, Presented, 03/2010.
• Balancing Good in the Use and Preservation of Natural Resources, 2010 J. Reuben Clark Law Society National Conference - Service for Good Through the Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 2010. Presentation, Presented, 02/2010.
• Utah Energy Forum 2010, co-sponsored by the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment and the University of Utah Institute for Clean and Secure Energy, Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 2010. Presentation, Presented, 02/2010.
• Renewing the Renewable Portfolio Standard: A Federal Approach, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Second Annual Faculty Section Conference, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan. 2010. Presentation, Presented, 01/2010.
• East Going West? The Promise of Assured Supply Laws in Modern Real Estate Development, Eleventh Annual Kratovil Conference on Real Estate Law & Practice - Water as a Resource: Impact on Real Estate Ownership, Development, and Land Use Policy, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, Nov. 2009. Presentation, Presented, 11/2009.
• Why Energy and Environmental Law Have Nothing to Do with Each Other. . . And Why That Must Change, Save Our Snow Lecture Series, Swaner EcoCenter, Park City, Utah, Oct. 2009. Presentation, Presented, 10/2009.
• Power Failure - The Derailed Argument over a National RPS, Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Sept. 2009. Presentation, Presented, 09/2009.
• Remaking Our Energy Future: Is a Federal RPS the Answer?, Faculty Scholarship Workshop, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 2009. Presentation, Presented, 09/2009.
• Law, Religion, and Environmentalism, Utah State Appellate Courts Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2009. Presentation, Presented, 06/2009.
• An Introduction to Energy and Environmental Law, Introduction to Environmental Studies (undergraduate course), Guest Lecturer, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Apr. 2009. Presentation, Presented, 04/2009.
• Nation Building by Going Nuclear? Sovereignty, the Trust, and the Goshute Experience, Washington College of Law, American University, Conference on Indian Nations and Institution Building, Washington, D.C., Feb. 2009. Presentation, Presented, 02/2009.
• Assured Water Supply Laws: Finding a Place in the East for an Emerging Western Model?, Jacksonville University and Florida Coastal School of Law, Northeast Florida Environmental Summit 2008: Water Wars-Use, Conflict and the Future, Jacksonville, Florida, November 2008. Presentation, Presented, 11/2008.
• Assured Water Supply Laws-A Western Model for an Eastern Future?, American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, 2008 Easter Water Law Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, May 2008. Presentation, Presented, 05/2008.
• Water, Sprawl, and the New West-The Promise of Assured Supply Laws, 2007-2008 Downtown CLE Series, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2008. Presentation, Presented, 05/2008.
• Energy Regulation Today . . . and Tomorrow?, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, Thirteenth Annual Symposium-Alternative Energy: Seeking Climate Change Solutions, Salt Lake City, Utah, Mar. 2008. Presentation, Presented, 03/2008.
• Law and Alternative Energy, Energy Policy Options for Utah (undergraduate/graduate economics course), Guest Lecturer, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 2007. Presentation, Presented, 11/2007.

Geographical Regions of Interest

• Americas
• Asia
• Europe