Jim Rossi

Not to be confused with James Rossi.

Jim Rossi is a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School who specializes in Energy Law and Administrative Law. He formerly served as the Harry M. Walborsky Professor at Florida State University College of Law (where he taught 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). His books include Regulatory Bargaining and Public Law (Cambridge University Press 2005),[1][2] along with New Frontiers of State Constitutional Law: Dual Enforcement of Norms (Oxford University Press 2010) (with James Gardner) and Energy, Economics and the Environment (Fourth Edition, Foundation Press 2015) (with Joel Eisen, Emily Hammond, David Spence, Jacqueline Weaver & Hannah Wiseman).[3]

Rossi is a leading proponent of clean energy "floors" in the interpretation of federal energy statutes, which would authorize federal agencies to take initiative in promoting sustainable energy policies while still allowing a considerable role for states to set even more ambitious goals for renewable power and energy efficiency.[4] For example, he has argued that customer net metering credits for residential rooftop solar energy are not capped by federal regulation of wholesale electricity prices under the Federal Power Act.[5] His works extensively evaluate legal barriers to energy transportation infrastructure for renewable power.[6] He also has addressed the role of courts in monitoring energy markets,[7] public utility regulation of energy,[8] energy federalism,[9] and "stranded cost" issues with energy transitions.[10]

Rossi also has made significant contributions to administrative law scholarship. An well-known article he coauthored with 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] He is the author of a frequently-cited critique of the growth of mass participation in the administrative state[13] and in his other work he defends "reasonableness" review of agency decisions by courts.[14] His writings devote considerable attention to state constitutions and state administrative law, including legal constraints on state regulation under cooperative federalism programs,[15] "finality" of state and local administrative law judge decisions,[16] and other issues related to state governmental structure.[17]

He holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School, a J.D. from the University of Iowa, and a B.S. from Arizona State University.

Notes and references

  1. ↑ http://www.fsu.edu/news/2005/05/27/rossi.book/
  2. ↑ http://www.abanet.org/antitrust/at-source/05/09/Sep05-TomainRev9=27.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/MacEnvReview/review_energy.htm
  4. ↑ Jim Rossi & Thomas Hutton, "Federal Preemption and Clean Energy Floors," 91 NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 1282 (2013); Jim Rossi & John Wellinghoff, "FERC v. EPSA and Adjacent State Regulation of Customer Energy Resources," 40 HARVARD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW FORUM 23 (2016).
  5. ↑ Jim Rossi, "Federalism and the Net Metering Alternative," 29 ELECTRICITY JOURNAL 13 (Jan.-Feb. 2016).
  6. ↑ Alexandra Klass & Jim Rossi, "Revitalizing Dormant Commerce Clause Review for Interstate Coordination," 100 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 129 (2015); Ashley Brown & Jim Rossi, "Siting Transmission Lines in a Changed Milieu: Evolving Notions of the 'Public Interest' in Balancing State and Regional Considerations," 81 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW REVIEW 705 (2010); Jim Rossi, "The Trojan Horse of Transmission Line Siting Authority," 39 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 1015 (2009).
  7. ↑ 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).
  8. ↑ 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)
  9. ↑ 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).
  10. ↑ Jim Rossi, "The Irony of Deregulatory Takings," 77 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 297 (1998); Susan Rose-Ackerman & Jim Rossi, "Disentangling Deregulatory Takings," 86 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 1435 (2000).
  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.
  13. ↑ Jim Rossi, "Participation Run Amok: The Deliberative Costs of Mass Participation in Agency Decisionmaking," 92 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 173 (1997).
  14. ↑ Jim Rossi, "Bargaining in the Shadow of the Administrative State: Rulemaking Settlement and the Public Interest," 51 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 1015 (2001); Jim Rossi, "Respecting Deference: Conceptualizing Skidmore Within the Architecture of Chevron," 42 WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW 1105 (2001); Redeeming Judicial Review: The Hard Look Doctrine and Federal Regulatory Efforts to Restructure the Electric Utility Industry, 1994 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 763-837.; see also Mark Seidenfeld & Jim Rossi, "The False Promise of the 'New' Nondelegation Doctrine," 76 NOTRE DAME LAW REVIEW 1-19 (2000).
  15. ↑ Jim Rossi, "Dynamic Incorporation of Federal Law," 77 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 457 (2016); Jim Rossi, "State Executive Lawmaking in Crisis," 56 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 237 (2006); Jim Rossi, "Dual Constitutions and Constitutional Duels: State Separation of Powers and the Implementation of Federal Programs," 45 WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW 1343 (2005).
  16. ↑ Jim Rossi, "Final, But Often Fallible: Acknowledging the Problems with ALJ Finality," 56 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 53 (2004)
  17. ↑ Jim Rossi, "Overcoming Parochialism: Institutional Design and State Administrative Procedure," 53 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 551 (2001); Jim Rossi, "Separation of Powers and the Lingering Legacy of Antifederal Separation of Powers Ideals in the States," 52 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 1167 (1999).

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