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Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 27, 2020

Two Vanderbilt University Law School faculty members have been awarded the 2020 Morrison Prize for best scholarship in environmental law for their co-authored paper. Jim Rossi, the Judge D.L. Lansden Chair in Law and associate dean for research, and Christopher Serkin, the Elisabeth H. and Granville S. Ridley Jr. Chair in Law and associate dean for academic affairs, won the award for their paper titled Energy Exactions. The paper suggests extending “exactions” to include the cost of the additional energy burden each new real estate project creates. The Morrison Prize is administered through the Law and Sustainability Program at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Rossi and Serkin will be awarded a cash prize and will present their paper at the Sixth Annual Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators in Phoenix.