Sydney Schoonover is a rising fourth-year student with a focus in environmental risk & regulation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (2024-2025) and an Articles Editor on the Vanderbilt Law Review (2024-2025). Sydney is also a research assistant to Professor W. Kip Viscusi, working on various environmental law and economics topics, including quantifying the costs & benefits of environmental regulations and the international & intergenerational equity of the social cost of carbon. Sydney has previously interned and worked at the Environmental Defense Fund as a Clean Air Act Intern (Summer 2024), the Environmental Law Institute (2020), and the Department of Energy at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (2020-2021 and Summer 2022). Sydney is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley with majors in Environmental Economics & Policy (B.S.) and Environmental Sociology (B.S.), as well as a minor in Public Policy & Practice. Sydney’s research interests include enforcement & compliance of environmental statutes and regulations, nuclear energy, the social cost of carbon, the Clean Air Act, and administrative law.

Representative Works:
Sydney C. Schoonover, Note, Energizing Federal Action Towards a More Coherent National Nuclear Waste Policy, 77 VAND. L. REV. (forthcoming Feb. 2025).

W. Kip Viscusi & Sydney C. Schoonover, Equitable Assignment of Standing for Intergenerational and International Environmental Policies, ARIZ L. REV.

Education:
B.S., Environmental Economics/Policy and Environmental Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, 2020