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Mark James

Titles

  • Interim Director, Institute for Energy and the Environment
  • Associate Professor, Maverick Lloyd School for the Environment
  • Associate Professor of Law, Vermont Law School

Degrees

  • LLM, Energy Law, Vermont Law School, 2016
  • JD, University of Ottawa
  • BS, Ecology, University of Toronto

Contact

Phone: 802-831-1060

Biography

Mark James is the interim director of the Institute for Energy and the Environment and an associate professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School. Mark teaches Energy Policy in a Carbon Constrained World and Oil & Gas Development & the Environment. Prior to joining the VLGS faculty, Mark was a Global Energy LLM Fellow at Vermont Law School between 2014 and 2016. 

Mark leads research into how to integrate inclusive, democratic processes into the clean energy transition. His current research projects focus on the use of economic tools to facilitiate the early retirement of coal-fired generation and how to ensure effective participation for environmental non-profits into regional transmission organization (RTO) stakeholder governance processes. Mark was the lead research on a collaborative project with national non-profit Protect Our Power exploring how to enhance cybersecurity for electric distribution utilities. The collaboration has produced two reports and multiple presentations to state regulatory commissioners. His earlier research focused on data privacy for energy information in low-income energy assistance programs and real estate transactions. He has completed numerous grant-funded projects including leading a research team on a multi-year SunShot Plug and Play project to commercialize adhered solar PV panel technology. 

Mark earned his B.Sc. in Ecology, with honors, from the University of Toronto and his J.D., with an environmental specialization, from the University of Ottawa. While completing his J.D., he co-founded the Canadian Association of Environmental Law Societies, a national environmental law student group connecting Canadian environmental law students, academics, and practitioners.

Curriculum Vitae

Expertise

  • Air Pollution
  • Climate Change
  • Energy Law and Regulation
  • Oil and Gas Law and Regulation

Departments

  • Environmental Law Center
  • Institute for Energy and the Environment
  • New Economy Law Center