Peter, a 2004 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in economics and international studies, is currently in his final year of law school and the E-IPER M.S. program. Before coming to Stanford, Peter spent three years as an assistant analyst at the Congressional Budget Office working on health policy issues, and also spent a year at Stanford's Center for Health Policy, where he worked as a research assistant. After moving to California, Peter was inspired by burgeoning innovation in both energy policy and clean technology to direct his analytical experience towards the energy field. During law school, Peter has served as President of the Energy Law Club, and has worked as a Notes Editor for the Stanford Law Review and as an Articles Editor for the Stanford Environmental Law Journal. He is fluent in Spanish and picked up a smattering of Chinese during six months' travel in Taiwan and China.
Research Activities
Peter has focused his coursework in the E-IPER program on energy policy, engineering, and technology. Peter has worked with SLS environmental law professor Michael Wara on research into cost recovery methods applied by public utility commissions to investments by public utilities in smart grid technologies. For his E-IPER Capstone Project, he is currently researching the international legal implications of unilateral deployment of geoengineering techniques. Peter has also researched various legal aspects of renewable energy credits, investigating their constitutionality under the dormant commerce clause and researching their treatment as collateral in secured transactions.
Research Keywords
energy policy, energy regulation, geoengineering, project finance, clean tech