Boyd, William C. Professor and John H. Schultz Energy Law Fellow

Positions

Professor, School of Law
Endowed/Named Professor, School of Law
Faculty Director, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI)

Research Areas

Research

research overview

Dr. Boyd's research focuses on energy law and policy (particularly electricity); legal and institutional design issues associated with emerging GHG compliance markets; integration of forests and land use into climate policy; risk assessment; and the role of science and technology in law.

keywords

energy law and regulation; environmental law and regulation; climate change law and policy

Publications

selected publications

book
- The Slain Wood Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South 2015
chapter
journal article
- Accidents of Federalism: Ratemaking and Policy Innovation in Public Utility Law. Ucla Law Review. 2016
- Environmental Law, Big Data, and the Torrent of Singularities 2016
- A review of water and greenhouse gas impacts of unconventional natural gas development in the United States. MRS Energy and Sustainability. 2015
- Public Utility and the Low Carbon Future. Ucla Law Review. 2014
- More food, more forests, fewer emissions, better livelihoods: linking REDD+, sustainable supply chains and domestic policy in Brazil, Indonesia and Colombia. Carbon Management. 639-658. 2013
- Responding to climate change and the global land crisis: REDD+, market transformation and low-emissions rural development. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences. 2013
- Genealogies of Risk: Searching for Safety, 1930s-1970s. Ecology Law Quarterly. 895-987. 2012
- Law, Environment, and the "Nondismal" Social Sciences. Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 183-211. 2012
- The curious case of greening in carbon markets.. Environmental Law -Atlanta then Portland-. 73-94. 2011
- CLIMATE CHANGE, FRAGMENTATION, AND THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: ELEMENTS OF A POST-COPENHAGEN ASSEMBLAGE. University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law. 457-550. 2010
- Ways of Seeing in Environmental Law: How Deforestation Became an Object of Climate Governance. Ecology Law Quarterly. 843-916. 2010
- Controlling Toxic Harms: The Struggle Over Dioxin Contamination in the Pulp and Paper Industry.. Stanford Environmental Law Journal. 345-419. 2002
- Industrial Dynamics and the Problem of Nature. Society and Natural Resources. 555-570. 2001
- Making Meat: Science, Technology, and American Poultry Production. Technology and Culture. 631-664. 2001
- International Institutional Arrangements for Environment and Development: A Post-Rio Assessment. Review of European Community and International Environmental Law. 295-306. 1992

Teaching

courses taught

ENVS 5930 Internship (Spring 2019 UC Boulder)
LAWS 7916 Journal: CO Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Review (Spring 2019 UC Boulder)
ENVS 5930 Internship (Fall 2018 UC Boulder)
ENVS 6950 Master's Thesis (Fall 2018 UC Boulder)
ENVS 5930 Internship (Spring 2018 UC Boulder)
LAWS 7202 Environmental Law (Spring 2018 UC Boulder)
LAWS 7846 Independent Legal Research (Spring 2018 UC Boulder)
LAWS 7916 Journal: CO Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Review (Spring 2018 UC Boulder)
LAWS 8060 Poverty and Inequality in Comparative Perspective (Spring 2018 UC Boulder)

Background

education and training

J.D., Stanford University 2002
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley 2002
M.A., University of California-Berkeley 1994
B.A., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 1989

awards and honors

Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for Pre-Tenure Faculty (Academic Affairs), conferred by Academic Affairs, 2013
Fellow (Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI)), conferred by Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), 2010
The Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize (Society for the History of Technology), conferred by Society for the History of Technology, 1999

International Activities

global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)

Brazil Country
Indonesia Country
Mexico Country
Peru Country

Research Areas

Research

research overview

keywords

Publications

selected publications

book

chapter

journal article

Teaching

courses taught

Background

education and training

awards and honors

International Activities

global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)