Energy, Environment & Land Use Program

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The Energy, Environment & Land Use Program (EELU) provides an extensive and rigorous curriculum and extracurricular opportunities for students with an interest in practicing in these intersecting areas of the law. Environmental issues do not respect academic disciplinary boundaries, and the EELU Program and its faculty are leaders in developing interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and researching energy, environmental, and land use topics.

Upcoming Event

  • August 15th

    12:30 PM ET Virtual

    AI, Energy Demand, and the Environment: Perspectives on Information Sharing

    This webinar, hosted by the Societal Experts Action Network in collaboration with the Board on Environmental Change and Society, will bring together social science and industry experts to discuss topics related to consumer and corporate use of AI, what role environmental information sharing might play in consumer and corporate behavior, and the insights social science can provide to help achieve the economic and environmental goals of both consumers and firms. Program Director Michael Vandenbergh will be contributing to the panel.

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Sally Shallenberger Brown

The Sally Shallenberger Brown EELU Program Fund

In 2021, the EELU Program received a substantial new gift to establish an endowment and support faculty, research, course development, lectureships, and the program's general growth. The Sally Shallenberger Brown EELU Program Fund was endowed in honor of Sally Shallenberger Brown, a pioneering conservationist and ardent environmentalist. With that gift, the EELU Program is continuing to grow and innovate.

Opportunities in school and beyond

Our faculty work across disciplines to teach about, research, and address the most challenging energy, environment, and land use issues of the day. EELU faculty and students also collaborate with the new Vanderbilt Center for Sustainability, Energy and Climate and the social and behavioral scientists in the Climate Change Research Network, which conducts theoretical and applied research on one of the most important and most widely overlooked sources of greenhouse gases: individual and household behavior. The EELU Program's white paper series offers students a unique opportunity to research emerging energy and climate change challenges with faculty supervision.