Miscellany
Selected writing for general readers, recorded appearances, and one film.
Appearances
- 2026Should a River Have Rights? Panel with Chuck Sams, moderated by Samuel Kimbriel. Aspen Ideas Festival, July 1. Session page.
- 2026AI and the Future of Legal Practice. Interview with Natalie Blazer on Admissible, the UVA Law admissions podcast, April 17. Also on SoundCloud and YouTube.
- 2024Where Will Artificial Intelligence Take Us? Talk to the UVA Law Alumni Board and Council, November 8. UVA Law page.
- 2021The Future of White House Regulatory Oversight in the Biden Administration. Panel with Jennifer Nou and Stuart Shapiro, C. Boyden Gray Center, George Mason University, January 12.
- 2020Exploring Reviving Rationality. Book panel with Richard Revesz, Jonathan Adler, and Amy Sinden, moderated by Jonathan Cannon, UVA Law, November 17. Also discussed on Resources Radio and the Gray Center's Gray Matters podcast.
- 2019Michael Livermore Discusses Law as Data. UVA Law, June 3.
- 2019Testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change, May 21.
- 2019The Lawyer in Your Computer. Common Law podcast, UVA Law, May 21.
Writing
- 2026What We Lose When a Species Disappears, Thoughts from the Lawn, University of Virginia.
- 2025The Political Limits of Algorithmic Governance, The Regulatory Review.
- 2025Escalating Flawed Deregulatory Math, The Regulatory Review. with Caroline Cecot
- 2021Rejecting the Trump Anticanon of Regulatory Mismanagement, The Regulatory Review.
- 2019France Kicks Data Scientists Out of Its Courts, Slate. with Daniel Rockmore
- 2018Tainted Review, The Regulatory Review.
- 2018Judge Kavanaugh and the Environment, SCOTUSblog.
- 2018Why Cities Are Suing Oil Giants, U.S. News & World Report.
- 2018How Technology and Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Regulation, The Hill. with Vladimir Eidelman
- 2018The Keys to Our Coastal Kingdom, U.S. News & World Report. with Jayni Hein
- 2017Why Shifting Regulatory Power to the States Won't Improve the Environment, The Conversation.
- 2017Is the Supreme Court Acting Less Like a Court?, The Conversation. with Daniel Rockmore
- 2016Offshore Drilling: Why It Makes Economic Sense to Wait, The Conversation.
- 2015When Economics Get Lost in the Smog, The Hill. with Richard L. Revesz
- 2015What Is Nature Worth to You?, The New York Times. with Paul Glimcher
- 2015EPA's Ozone Standard Is Insufficiently Stringent, Not Overly Expensive, The Regulatory Review. with Richard L. Revesz
- 2013The Anti-Capture Justification for Regulatory Review, The Regulatory Review. with Richard L. Revesz
- 2013A Supreme Victory for Climate Rules, Huffington Post. with Richard L. Revesz
- 2013Can We Cap-and-Trade Our Way Out of the Debt Ceiling Crisis?, Fast Company.
- 2011Putting Economics on the Side of the Environment, Fast Company.
- 2009Cass Sunstein for Regulation Czar, Forbes. with Richard L. Revesz
- 2008A Truly Green Economics, Forbes. with Richard L. Revesz
- 2009–14Contributions with Richard L. Revesz to the Huffington Post on regulation, climate policy, and cost-benefit analysis.
- 2010–12Regular contributor to Grist on EPA rulemaking and the economics of environmental protection.
Film
- 2024Pine Grove: More Than a School, executive producer. A short documentary on the Pine Grove Rosenwald School in Cumberland County, Virginia, and the community fighting to preserve it, produced with UVA Law's Program on Law, Communities and the Environment. Official selection of the Virginia Film Festival, Justice Film Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival, and Social Impact Film Festival. UVA Law's story on the film.