Jim Rossi Explained

Jim Rossi is the Judge D.L. Lansden Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, where he specializes in Energy Law and Administrative Law.^[1] His books include Regulatory Bargaining and Public Law (Cambridge University Press 2005),^{[2] [3]} New Frontiers of State Constitutional Law: Dual Enforcement of Norms (Oxford University Press 2010) (with James Gardner) and Energy, Economics and the Environment (Sixth edition, Foundation Press 2024) (with Joel Eisen, Emily Hammond, Joshua Macey, David Spence & Hannah Wiseman).^[4]

Education and career

Rossi holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School, a J.D. from the University of Iowa, and a B.S. from the Honors College at Arizona State University. Following law school he practiced energy law in Washington, D.C.

Rossi serves on the Advisory Council for the Electric Power Research Institute. He formerly was the Harry M. Walborsky Professor at Florida State University College of Law (from 1995 until 2012), and also has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (2009) and the University of Texas School of Law (2000–01).

Rossi has authored publications that deal with legal framework governing energy transitions in the U.S., including federalism,^[5] judicial oversight of energy markets,^[6] public utility regulation,^[7] and "stranded cost" issues.^[8] His 2019 Cornell Law Review article "Energy Exactions" (coauthored with Vanderbilt Law Professor Chris Serkin)^[9] received the 2020 Morrison Prize for the most impactful sustainability-related legal academic article published in North America during the previous year.^[10] Rossi has also published on administrative law. "Agency Coordination in Shared Regulatory Space" (a 2012 Harvard Law Review article coauthored with Harvard Professor Jody Freeman)^[11] inspired a study and policy recommendations on agency coordination adopted in 2012 by the Administrative Conference of the United States.^[12]

External links

• Vanderbilt University Law School faculty profile
• Florida State University College of Law faculty profile

Notes and References

1. https://law.vanderbilt.edu/news/jim-rossi-appointed-to-the-judge-d-l-lansden-chair-in-law/ "Jim Rossi appointed to the Judge D.L. Lansden Chair in Law"
2. Web site: Legal scholars, judges give advanced praise for new book by Professor Jim Rossi .
3. http://www.abanet.org/antitrust/at-source/05/09/Sep05-TomainRev9=27.pdf
4. Web site: Review - Energy, Economics and the Environment . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070622070737/http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/MacEnvReview/review_energy.htm . 2007-06-22 . 2007-05-05.
5. Jim Rossi. "The Brave New Path of Energy Federalism," 95 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 399 (2016); Jim Rossi & John Wellinghoff, "FERC v. EPSA and Adjacent State Regulation of Customer Energy Resources," 40 HARVARD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW FORUM 23 (2016); Jim Rossi, "Antitrust Process and Vertical Deference: Judicial Review of State Regulatory Inaction," 93 IOWA LAW REVIEW 185 (2007); Jim Rossi, "Political Bargaining and Judicial Intervention in Constitutional and Antitrust Federalism," 83 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW QUARTERLY 521 (2005).
6. Jim Rossi, "Moving Public Law Out of the Deference Trap for Regulated Industries," 39 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW 617-676 (2005); Jim Rossi, "Lowering the Filed Tariff Shield: Judicial Enforcement for a Deregulatory Era," 56 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 1591 (2003); Jim Rossi, "The Electric Power Deregulation Fiasco: Looking Balance Between Markets and the Provision of Public Goods," 100 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 1768 (2002).
7. Jim Rossi, "The Common Law 'Duty to Serve' and Protection of Consumers in an Age of Competitive Retail Public Utility Restructuring," 51 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 1233 (1998)
8. Emily Hammond & Jim Rossi, "Stranded Costs and Grid Decarbonization," 82 BROOKLYN LAW REVIEW 645 (2017); Susan Rose-Ackerman & Jim Rossi, "Disentangling Deregulatory Takings," 86 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 1435 (2000); Jim Rossi, "The Irony of Deregulatory Takings," 77 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 297 (1998).
9. Jim Rossi & Chris Serkin, "Energy Exactions," 104 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 643 (2019)
10. https://law.asu.edu/asu-morrison-prize-honors-proposal-fund-sustainable-energy-through-real-estate-developers "2020 Morrison Prize Announcement"
11. Jody Freeman & Jim Rossi, "Agency Coordination in Shared Regulatory Space," 125 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 1131 (2012).
12. See ACUS Recommendation 2012-5, 77 FEDERAL REGISTER 47,810 (Aug. 10, 2012), available at https://www.acus.gov/recommendation/improving-coordination-related-agency-responsibilities.