David Spence
Professor of Energy Law, University of Texas
Bio:
David Spence is the Rex G. Baker Chair in Natural Resources Law at the University of Texas School of Law, and Professor of Business, Government & Society at UT-Austin’s McCombs School of Business. Professor Spence’s research and teaching focuses on government regulation of the energy industry, broadly defined to include economic and environmental regulation of the entire energy sector.
He is author of Climate of Contempt: Rescuing the Energy Transition from Voter Partisanship (Columbia Univ. Press, 2024), and co-author of the energy law textbook, Energy, Economics and the Environment (Foundation Press, 6th Ed., 2023). Professor Spence earned his Ph.D in political science from Duke University, his J.D. from the University of North Carolina, and his B.A. from Gettysburg College
Abstract:
Join UT professors David Spence (School of Law; McCombs School of Business), Sheila Olmstead (LBJ School) and Joshua Busby (LBJ School) for a penetrating look at the increasingly contentious politics of the energy transition. We will structure the discussion around Professor Spence’s forthcoming book, Climate of Contempt: Rescuring the U.S. Energy Transition from Voter Partisanship (Columbia University Press), which challenges some popular narratives about climate and energy politics.
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