Kyle J. Blasinsky is a sixth-year student in the Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics and a Law and Economics Scholar at Vanderbilt Law School. His research focuses on energy and environmental law and policy as well as state courts, litigation, and constitutions. Kyle enrolled at Vanderbilt in the Fall of 2020 after earning a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Physics and working in the Office of Congressman Bill Foster as an American Institute of Physics Mather Public Policy Intern. He previously served as Senior Articles Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and Editor-in-Chief of the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review. In addition to working as a research assistant for Professors Paige Skiba and W. Kip Viscusi, while at Vanderbilt, Kyle has worked as a legal intern at the State Supreme Court Initiative at the American Civil Liberties Union, the Department of Law of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, the Office of Counsel of the Nashville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Covington & Burling LLP.

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

Publications:

• Greening the Supply Chain: Financial Tools to Catalyze Decarbonization by Small Businesses, 27 Vt. J. Env’t L. (forthcoming).
• Regulation on the Margin: Evidence from Online Payday Lending, 41 Yale J. on Regul. (forthcoming) (invited contribution) (with Paige Marta Skiba & Paige Anders).
• Ratemaking’s Trilemma and the Case for Time-Based Electricity Rates, 31 U.C. L. Env’t J. 177 (2025).
• Cities on Offense: Why Cities Bring Suit and What States Should Do About It, 129 Penn. St. L. Rev. Penn Statim 181 (2025).
• Analysis of Environmental Law Scholarship 2022–2023, 54 Env’t L. Rep. 10631 (2024) (invited contribution) (with Linda K. Breggin, Madeline Claire Thompson & Michael P. Vandenbergh).
• 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/.