Her research focuses on how climate change is transforming energy and environmental law and governance, with a current focus on the “democratization” of energy law. Recent articles have explored the appeal of municipalized energy and community choice aggregation as climate change strategies, and considered how energy law can grapple with the complex equity considerations raised by the rise of participatory grid technologies. At the University of South Carolina, Shelley teaches administrative law, environmental law and policy, and climate change law.