Amy L. Stein

About

Amy L. Stein is the Cone Wagner Professor of Law and the UF Research Foundation Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and affiliate faculty for the University’s AI2 Center, internationally recognized for her research on energy law and policy, as well as the intersection of artificial intelligence, energy, and environmental law. She serves on the University’s AI Working Group in AI Ethics and Policy and the Florida Climate Institute, as well as the Association of American Law Schools’ Natural Resources and Energy Law and Environmental Sections. Popular Science named Professor Stein one of the “Visionary Thinkers” of 2022 for her work on algorithms and the climate crisis.

Professor Stein’s work focuses on the intersection of emerging technologies and the environment. Recent work demonstrates how the future of AI is intricately tied to the clean energy transition, arguing for revised alignment between public and private law related to the electric grid, utilities, and Big Tech to facilitate both developments successfully (See Chapter 21 Generative AI and Sustainability in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THE FOUNDATION AND REGULATION OF GENERATIVE AI (forthcoming Oxford University Press 2025)). Her work also demonstrates how antitrust laws can serve as a useful lever against public utilities resistant to sharing their energy data, “Rejecting Public Utility Data Monopolies”, 112 California Law Review 101 (2024); challenges unilateral presidential delegations to address energy emergencies, “Energy Emergencies,” 115 Northwestern University Law Review 799 (2020); demonstrates how new artificial intelligence techniques can assist in decarbonization strategies across the electric grid, “Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change,” Yale Law Journal on Regulation (2020); and provides legal strategies for decarbonizing the light-duty vehicle fleet, Chapter 14 (with Joshua Fershée) in LEGAL PATHWAYS TO DEEP DECARBONIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES (ELI Press, Michael B. Gerrard and John C. Dernbach eds) (2019). Prior scholarship focuses on emerging technologies and the environment, with a focus on electric grid governance, distributed energy resources, energy storage, reliability, federalism, and climate change, all of which can be accessed at http://ssrn.com/author=1216973. She teaches in the areas of energy law, environmental law, climate change, artificial intelligence, and torts, and she has presented her energy work across the country and internationally, in both academic and policy forums.

Professor Stein began her academic career at George Washington University Law School and Tulane Law School. Prior to her academic appointments, she practiced as an environmental and litigation associate for Latham & Watkins LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley offices. She is a member of the District of Columbia, Illinois, and California state bars and a graduate of the University of Chicago (AB) and the University of Chicago Law School (JD).

Education

J.D., University of Chicago
B.A., University of Chicago

Teaching and Scholarship

Energy, Environmental, Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence, Torts, Federalism, Administrative Law