Jim Rossi

Who is Jim Rossi?

Jim Rossi is a law professor at Vanderbilt University Law School who specializes in Energy Law and Administrative Law. He formerly was a professor at Florida State University College of Law, and has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Texas School of Law. His books include Regulatory Bargaining and Public Law, along with New Frontiers of State Constitutional Law: Dual Enforcement of Norms and Energy, Economics and the Environment.

Professor Rossi has studied how the economic and regulatory structure of the electric utility industry presents limits to national climate change legislation, as well as legal and economic barriers to transmission infrastructure to serve new renewable power projects. His work evaluates the judicial role in monitoring deregulated industries, such as electric power, and also addresses federalism and other constitutional aspects related to reform of the energy industry.

His administrative law scholarship examines participation and judicial review in administrative law, and state administrative procedure and constitutional law.