About Us
Who Publishes TELJ?
The Texas Environmental Law Journal has been co-produced by law students from the University of Texas School of Law and members of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas since 1990.
What Does TELJ Publish?
TELJ publishes articles written by practitioners and academics from around the world, student notes from law schools across the country, and recent development articles written by TELJ members with a practicing attorney. These articles and notes address a wide range of topics in environmental and natural resources law—and related fields such as administrative law—including advancements in water rights and regulation, air quality and regulation, waste and toxics, clean energy, and endangered species.
When Is TELJ Published?
Per volume, TELJ produces a first issue in the fall (publishing in the winter) and a second issue in the spring (publishing in the summer).
Who Has Cited TELJ?
Justice Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States in Util. Air Regulatory Grp. v. EPA, 134 S.Ct. 2427, 2447–48 (2014):
The Texas Environmental Law Journal has been co-produced by law students from the University of Texas School of Law and members of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas since 1990.
What Does TELJ Publish?
TELJ publishes articles written by practitioners and academics from around the world, student notes from law schools across the country, and recent development articles written by TELJ members with a practicing attorney. These articles and notes address a wide range of topics in environmental and natural resources law—and related fields such as administrative law—including advancements in water rights and regulation, air quality and regulation, waste and toxics, clean energy, and endangered species.
When Is TELJ Published?
Per volume, TELJ produces a first issue in the fall (publishing in the winter) and a second issue in the spring (publishing in the summer).
Who Has Cited TELJ?
Justice Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States in Util. Air Regulatory Grp. v. EPA, 134 S.Ct. 2427, 2447–48 (2014):
What Else Does TELJ Do?
Each year, TELJ hosts a Symposium bringing together academics, practitioners, and students to discuss issues in environmental and natural-resources law—and to provide CLE to the local environmental community. Past topics have included the science-policy boundary in administrative and environmental law (2018); the impacts of the 2016 presidential election on environmental law and policy (2017); water contaminants of emerging concern (2016); balancing competing land-use and conservation goals at the federal, state, and local levels (2015); the impacts of drought and Texas water rights on energy production (2014); emerging issues in regulating power plant air emissions (2013); cooperative federalism in Texas—EPA & TCEQ (2012); and the legal and environmental consequences of the shale gas boom (2010).
TELJ also partners with other organizations—including UT Law's Environmental Law Society and the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law—to host career panels and networking events to connect environmental practitioners with law students and cultivate the environmental law community at the University of Texas School of Law.
Each year, TELJ hosts a Symposium bringing together academics, practitioners, and students to discuss issues in environmental and natural-resources law—and to provide CLE to the local environmental community. Past topics have included the science-policy boundary in administrative and environmental law (2018); the impacts of the 2016 presidential election on environmental law and policy (2017); water contaminants of emerging concern (2016); balancing competing land-use and conservation goals at the federal, state, and local levels (2015); the impacts of drought and Texas water rights on energy production (2014); emerging issues in regulating power plant air emissions (2013); cooperative federalism in Texas—EPA & TCEQ (2012); and the legal and environmental consequences of the shale gas boom (2010).
TELJ also partners with other organizations—including UT Law's Environmental Law Society and the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law—to host career panels and networking events to connect environmental practitioners with law students and cultivate the environmental law community at the University of Texas School of Law.