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David Spence is Professor of Law, Politics & Regulation at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches in both the McCombs School of Business and the School of Law. Professor Spence is co-author of the leading energy law casebook, Energy, Economics and the Environment (Foundation Press), and has published numerous scholarly articles on subjects relating to energy policy, regulation and the regulatory process. Professor Spence’s research focuses on the law and politics of energy regulation, broadly defined. His scholarly writings address the environmental regulation of the oil and gas industry and the electric utility industry, as well as economic regulation (regulation of price and competition) in the public utility industry. He has Ph.D in political science from Duke University and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina.

David.Spence@mccombs.utexas.edu

Ross Baldick is Professor and Leland Barclay Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He has undergraduate degrees from the University of Sydney, Australia, and graduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. His current research involves optimization, economic theory, and statistical analysis applied to electric power systems, particularly in the context of increased renewables and transmission. Dr. Baldick is a Fellow if the IEEE and the recipient of the 2015 IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award. 

baldick@ece.utexas.edu

Varun Rai is an associate professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, where he directs the Energy Systems Transformation Research Group, and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT Austin. He studies how the interactions among the underlying social, behavioral, economic, technological and institutional components of the energy system affect the diffusion of sustainable energy technologies. His interdisciplinary research deals with issues at the interface of energy systems, complex systems, decision science and public policy. His research has been presented at several important forums, including U.S. Senate briefings, the Global Economic Symposium, and Climate One at the Commonwealth Club, and it has been discussed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Bloomberg News, among other venues. He was a Global Economic Fellow in 2009 and received the David N. Kershaw Award and Prize in 2016. During 2013-2015 he was a commissioner for the vertically integrated electric utility Austin Energy.

David E. Adelman teaches and writes in the areas of environmental law, intellectual property law, and climate change policy. Professor Adelman's research focuses on the many interfaces between law and science. Professor Adelman clerked for the Honorable Samuel Conti of the United Stated District Court for the Northern District of California. Before entering academia, he was an associate with the law firm Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., where he litigated patent disputes and provided counsel on environmental regulatory matters, and a Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C. Professor Adelman was an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law from 2001 to 2009. 

dadelman@law.utexas.edu

David Spence is Professor of Law, Politics & Regulation at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches in both the McCombs School of Business and the School of Law. Professor Spence is co-author of the leading energy law casebook, Energy, Economics and the Environment (Foundation Press), and has published numerous scholarly articles on subjects relating to energy policy, regulation and the regulatory process. Professor Spence’s research focuses on the law and politics of energy regulation, broadly defined. His scholarly writings address the environmental regulation of the oil and gas industry and the electric utility industry, as well as economic regulation (regulation of price and competition) in the public utility industry. He has Ph.D in political science from Duke University and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina.

David.Spence@mccombs.utexas.edu

Ross Baldick is Professor and Leland Barclay Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He has undergraduate degrees from the University of Sydney, Australia, and graduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. His current research involves optimization, economic theory, and statistical analysis applied to electric power systems, particularly in the context of increased renewables and transmission. Dr. Baldick is a Fellow if the IEEE and the recipient of the 2015 IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award. 

baldick@ece.utexas.edu

Varun Rai is an associate professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, where he directs the Energy Systems Transformation Research Group, and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT Austin. He studies how the interactions among the underlying social, behavioral, economic, technological and institutional components of the energy system affect the diffusion of sustainable energy technologies. His interdisciplinary research deals with issues at the interface of energy systems, complex systems, decision science and public policy. His research has been presented at several important forums, including U.S. Senate briefings, the Global Economic Symposium, and Climate One at the Commonwealth Club, and it has been discussed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Bloomberg News, among other venues. He was a Global Economic Fellow in 2009 and received the David N. Kershaw Award and Prize in 2016. During 2013-2015 he was a commissioner for the vertically integrated electric utility Austin Energy.

David E. Adelman teaches and writes in the areas of environmental law, intellectual property law, and climate change policy. Professor Adelman's research focuses on the many interfaces between law and science. Professor Adelman clerked for the Honorable Samuel Conti of the United Stated District Court for the Northern District of California. Before entering academia, he was an associate with the law firm Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., where he litigated patent disputes and provided counsel on environmental regulatory matters, and a Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C. Professor Adelman was an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law from 2001 to 2009. 

dadelman@law.utexas.edu