Jim Rossi

Not to be confused with James Rossi.

Jim Rossi is a law professor at Vanderbilt University Law School who specializes in Energy Law and Administrative Law. He formerly was a professor at Florida State University College of Law, and has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Texas School of Law. 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 (Third Edition, Foundation Press 2010) (with Fred Bosselman, Joel Eisen, David Spence and Jacqueline Weaver).[3]

Professor Rossi has studied how the economic and regulatory structure of the electric utility industry presents limits to national climate change legislation,[4] as well as legal and economic barriers to transmission infrastructure to serve new renewable power projects.[5] His work evaluates the judicial role in monitoring deregulated industries, such as electric power,[6] and also addresses federalism[7] and other constitutional aspects related to reform of the energy industry.[8]

His administrative law scholarship examines participation and judicial review in administrative law, and state administrative procedure and constitutional law. An article he coauthored with Professor Jody Freeman[9] inspired a study and policy recommendations on agency coordination adopted by the Administrative Conference of the U.S. in 2012.[10] Professor Rossi has critically assessed the growth of mass participation in the administrative state[11] and has defended the role of courts to engaging in "reasonableness" review of agency decisions[12] without limiting the constitutional authority of federal agencies.[13] He also studies state constitutions and state administrative law. His work in this area focuses on the role of state separation of powers in cooperative federalism programs,[14] and on the scope "finality" of decisions issued by state and local administrative law judges,[15] among other issues.[16]

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, "The Political Economy of Energy and Its Implications for Climate Change Legislation," 84 TULANE LAW REVIEW 379 (2009).
  5. ↑ Jim Rossi, "The Limits of a National Renewable Portfolio Standard," 42 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 1425 (2010); 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).
  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 1591-1659 (2003); Jim Rossi, "The Electric Power Deregulation Fiasco: Looking Balance Between Markets and the Provision of Public Goods," 100 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 1768-1790 (2002).
  7. ↑ 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).
  8. ↑ Jim Rossi, "The Irony of Deregulatory Takings," 77 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 297-320 (1998); Susan Rose-Ackerman & Jim Rossi, "Disentangling Deregulatory Takings," 86 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 1435-1495 (2000).
  9. ↑ Jody Freeman & Jim Rossi, "Agency Coordination in Shared Regulatory Space," 125 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 1131 (2012).
  10. ↑ http://www.acus.gov/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/06/Final-Recommendation-2012-5-Improving-Agency-Coordination.pdf
  11. ↑ Jim Rossi, "Participation Run Amok: The Deliberative Costs of Mass Participation in Agency Decisionmaking," 92 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 173-249 (1997).
  12. ↑ Jim Rossi, "Bargaining in the Shadow of the Administrative State: Rulemaking Settlement and the Public Interest," 51 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 1015-1058 (2001); Jim Rossi, "Respecting Deference: Conceptualizing Skidmore Within the Architecture of Chevron," 42 WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW 1105-1147 (2001); Redeeming Judicial Review: The Hard Look Doctrine and Federal Regulatory Efforts to Restructure the Electric Utility Industry, 1994 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 763-837.
  13. ↑ Mark Seidenfeld & Jim Rossi, "The False Promise of the 'New' Nondelegation Doctrine," 76 NOTRE DAME LAW REVIEW 1-19 (2000).
  14. ↑ 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 1343-84 (2005).
  15. ↑ Jim Rossi, "Final, But Often Fallible: Acknowledging the Problems with ALJ Finality," 56 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 53-76 (2004)
  16. ↑ Jim Rossi, "Overcoming Parochialism: Institutional Design and State Administrative Procedure," 53 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 551-574 (2001).

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