Kyle J. Blasinsky is a fifth-year student in the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics and a Law and Economics Scholar at Vanderbilt Law School. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Kyle came to Vanderbilt in the fall of 2020 after earning a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Physics and working in physics research, education, and public policy. His technical and policy background still informs his current research interests, which include energy law; environmental law; land use; and state courts, litigation, and constitutions. He previously served as Senior Articles Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and Editor-in-Chief of the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review. His work has appeared in legal and science journals, and he’s contributed to various other media.

Education:
B.S. in Interdisciplinary Physics with minors in Economics and Political Science, summa cum laude, May 2020

Experience:

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, Office of Counsel. Summer 2024.
• Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Department of Law. Summer 2024.
• American Civil Liberties Union, State Supreme Court Initiative. Summer 2023.
• American Institute of Physics Mather Public Policy Intern in the Office of Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11). Summer 2020.

Publications:

• “Leveraging Public Support for Gun Laws to Reduce Mass Shootings,” with W. Kip Viscusi, University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2024, Issue 3, available at https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4425499.
• “An ON-OFF Magneto-Optical Probe of Anisotropic Biofluid Crystals: A β-Hematin Case Study,” with Danielle Kara, Robert J. Deissler, Rose Al Helo, Brian T. Grimberg & Robert Brown, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 57, Issue 9 (September 2021), available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35813117/.

Other Media:

• “Federal Forest Wildfires, Climate, and Liability,” with Linda K. Breggin, Environmental Law Reporter: Vibrant Environment Blog, November 2023, available at https://www.eli.org/vibrant-environment-blog/federal-forest-wildfires-climate-and-liability, reprinted in Linda K. Breggin & Kyle J. Blasinsky, “Federal Forest Wildfires, Climate, and Liability,” American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Blog, March 2024, available at https://www.americanbar.org/groups/environment_energy_resources/resources/newsletters/public-land-resources/federal-forest-wildfires/.
• “Weighing the Social Cost of Carbon with Cass Sunstein and Kip Viscusi,” with Cass Sunstein, W. Kip Viscusi & Linda Breggin, Environmental Law Reporter People Places Planet Podcast, October 2023, available at https://share.transistor.fm/s/a2514b2a.

Presentations:

• “Welcome and Introduction,” with Madeline Claire Thompson, Linda K. Breggin & Michael P. Vandenbergh, Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review Washington, D.C., Conference, April 2024.
• “State of Scholarship and Innovation,” with Caroline Cox, Jane Miller, Lachlan Watkins, Dan Vickers, Linda Breggin, Michael Vandenbergh & J.B. Ruhl, State of the Environment Conference, February 2024.
• “The Power of Property Tax: Nuclear Power, Siting, and the Drawbacks of Reform,” Frontiers in Law and Economics (FILE) Conference, April 2023.
• “Quantifying the Optical Properties of Hemozoin for the Rapid Detection of Malaria,” Ohio Section of the American Physical Society (OSAPS) Fall Meeting, October 2019.
• “Expanded Magneto-Optical Device Applications,” John Carroll Physics Department Seminar Series, September 2019.