| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Nadia Lambek , Priscilla Claeys |
INSTITUTIONALIZING A FULLY REALIZED RIGHT TO FOOD: PROGRESS, LIMITATIONS, AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM EMERGING ALTERNATIVE POLICY MODELS |
40 Vermont Law Review 743 (Summer, 2016) |
Introduction. 744 I. A Brief Background on the Right to Food as a Legal Concept. 746 II. Assessment of Policies, Strategies, and Legal Frameworks for the National Implementation of the Right to Food. 751 A. Progress in Legal Protection of the Obligation to Fulfill the Right to Food. 753 B. Progress in National Policies that Fulfill the Right to... |
2016 |
| Martha F. Davis |
LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN: A CASE STUDY OF THE LEGAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR WATER EQUALITY AND AFFORDABILITY |
23 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 355 (Spring, 2016) |
Unequal access to water and sanitation has long been an issue in developing nations. In the United States, by contrast, most individuals take access to basic water and sanitation services for granted. Writing in 2011, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation lauded the United States' past leadership in... |
2016 |
| David Takacs |
SOUTH AFRICA AND THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER: EQUITY, ECOLOGY, AND THE PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE |
34 Berkeley Journal of International Law 55 (Fall, 2016) |
After liberation from apartheid in 1996, South Africa's new, progressive Constitution proclaimed: Everyone has the right to have access to sufficient food and water. In this paper, I analyze South Africa's revolutionary legal vision for marrying social equity to ecology in fulfilling the right to water. South Africa's successes and obstacles as a... |
2016 |
| Jada Fehn |
SWAMPED: HOW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CAN IMPROVE HEALTH BY BALANCING EXPOSURE TO FAT, SUGAR, AND SALT-LADEN FRINGE FOODS |
24 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 565 (2016) |
I. Desert to Swamp. 566 II. Details of the Imbalance. 567 A. Poor Access. 567 B. On the Ground. 571 1. Baltimore. 571 2. Chicago. 571 3. Detroit. 573 4. Los Angeles. 573 III. Why?. 574 A. Product Manipulation. 574 B. Advertising. 575 C. Exodus to the Suburbs. 576 IV. The Link Between Food Imbalance and Health Inequity. 577 V. Public Health... |
2016 |
| Samit D'Cunha |
THE FIRST PLAGUE: THE DENIAL OF WATER AS A FORCIBLE TRANSFER UNDER INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW |
24 Michigan State International Law Review 279 (2016) |
Introduction. 279 I. Determination of the Applicable Law in the West Bank. 282 II. The Scope of Deportation & Forcible Transfers Under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. 287 III. Water Regulation in the West Bank. 292 A. Appropriation of Water Resources in the Aftermath of the Six Day War. 293 B. Water Regulation Under the Oslo Accords and... |
2016 |
| Deborah N. Archer , Tamara C. Belinfanti |
WE BUILT IT AND THEY DID NOT COME: USING NEW GOVERNANCE THEORY IN THE FIGHT FOR FOOD JUSTICE IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES OF COLOR |
15 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 307 (Fall, 2016) |
Meet Anthony. Anthony is eighteen years old and lives with his mother, Mary, in Anacostia, a residential neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. There are no supermarkets in his neighborhood--the closest grocery store is 20 minutes away by bus. One or two corner stores in the neighborhood sell milk, cereal, and other packaged foods. Mary shops... |
2016 |
| Andrea Freeman |
"FIRST FOOD" JUSTICE: RACIAL DISPARITIES IN INFANT FEEDING AS FOOD OPPRESSION |
83 Fordham Law Review 3053 (May, 2015) |
Tabitha Walrond gave birth to Tyler Isaac Walrond on June 27, 1997, when Tabitha, a black woman from the Bronx, was nineteen years old. Four months before the birth, Tabitha, who received New York public assistance, attempted to enroll Tyler in her health insurance plan (HIP), but encountered a mountain of bureaucratic red tape and errors. After... |
2015 |
| Liza Guerra Garcia |
"FREE THE LAND" : A CALL FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE-INDUCED FOOD INSECURITY IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES |
41 William Mitchell Law Review 572 (2015) |
I. Introduction. 573 II. Climate Change. 574 A. The Science of Climate Change. 576 B. Impacts and Projections. 577 C. Minnesota's Changing Climate. 580 III. Overview of Environmental Justice. 582 IV. Environmental Justice and Food Security. 585 A. The Nexus of Environmental Justice, Vulnerability, and Food Insecurity. 585 B. Urban Indigenous... |
2015 |
| Aeyal Gross , Tamar Feldman |
"WE DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR THE WORD 'CALORIES"D': RETHINKING FOOD SECURITY, FOOD POWER, AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY--LESSONS FROM THE GAZA CLOSURE |
33 Berkeley Journal of International Law 379 (2015) |
Everybody is hungry, nobody is starving. Chirster Nordhal In the summer of 2007 Israel imposed a yet-to-be lifted closure on the Gaza Strip, restricting the movement of goods and people into and out of Gaza. Israel holds its closure policy to be legal under international law so long as it meets the humanitarian minimum standard and allows the... |
2015 |
| Michelle Nowlin , Emily Spiegel , Graham McHenry |
(M)EAT LOCAL® : MARKET AND DISTRIBUTION CHALLENGES IN THE LOCAL MEAT SYSTEM |
25 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 339 (Spring 2015) |
I. Introduction. 340 II. The Livestock Industry: At a Glance. 342 A. Historic and Recent Trends. 342 B. What Is Local Meat?. 347 C. Regulatory Considerations. 351 1. Federally Inspected Facilities. 353 2. State Inspected Facilities. 354 3. Talmadge-Aiken Facilities. 355 4. Custom Exempt Facilities. 355 5. The Cooperative Interstate Shipment... |
2015 |
| Laura Fisher |
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW -- ALL (FOOD) POLITICS IS LOCAL: COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM, NEW ENGLAND SMALL FARMS, AND THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT |
37 Western New England Law Review 337 (2015) |
The family farm: it is way up there next to God and country, close to baseball and motherhood. . . . Family farming belongs to our secular theology. Successive iterations of federal farm policy designed to maximize production have driven the romanticized Jeffersonian idea of the family farmer to the brink of extinction. Gary Gemme and Davey... |
2015 |
| Mallory Irwinsky |
COALBED METHANE DEVELOPMENT IN WYOMING AND MONTANA: THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF MONTANA V. WYOMING, COALBED METHANE DEVELOPMENT, AND WATER QUALITY ON THE TRIBES OF THE POWDER RIVER AND WIND RIVER BASINS |
39 American Indian Law Review 553 (2014-2015) |
For the past few decades, the production of coalbed methane (CBM) across the United States has grown as the demand for fuel has increased across the nation, coupled with a desire for cleaner-burning energy sources. CBM, a form of natural gas, is not only cheaper to produce than conventional natural gas, but it is touted as a clean energy... |
2015 |
| Benjamin Mason Meier , Yuna Kim |
HUMAN RIGHTS ACCOUNTABILITY THROUGH TREATY BODIES: EXAMINING HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY MONITORING FOR WATER AND SANITATION |
26 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 141 (Fall 2015) |
Framing scholarship on human rights accountability through treaty bodies, this article examines the water and sanitation content of state human rights reporting to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In this novel application of analytic coding methods to state human rights reports, the authors trace the... |
2015 |
| Tanya Kapoor |
IS SUCCESSFUL WATER PRIVATIZATION A PIPE DREAM?: AN ANALYSIS OF THREE GLOBAL CASE STUDIES |
40 Yale Journal of International Law 157 (Winter 2015) |
Introduction. 158 I. Methodology. 161 A. Class Dynamics. 161 B. Business and Deal Structure. 162 C. Political Climate. 163 II. Cochabamba, Bolivia. 163 A. Background. 163 B. The Cochabamba Privatization. 164 C. The Model Applied. 167 III. KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 171 A. Background. 171 B. The KwaZulu-Natal Privatization. 172 C. The Model... |
2015 |
| Andrea Freeman |
THE 2014 FARM BILL: FARM SUBSIDIES AND FOOD OPPRESSION |
38 Seattle University Law Review 1271 (Summer, 2015) |
The 2014 Farm Bill ushered in some significant and surprising changes. One of these was that it rendered the identity of all the recipients of farm subsidies secret. Representative Larry Combest, who is now a lobbyist for agribusiness, first introduced a secrecy provision into the bill in 2000. The provision, however, only applied to subsidies made... |
2015 |
| Calvin R. Edwards Jr. |
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BUN: HOW CHICAGO CAN COMBAT FOOD DESERTS AND OBESITY THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH POLICES AND THE LAW |
9 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 136 (Winter 2015) |
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Michelle lives in a small three-bedroom bungalow located deep in the south side of Chicago. Michelle, her husband Darius, and her two children share the home with her... |
2015 |
| Andrea Freeman |
TRANSPARENCY FOR FOOD CONSUMERS: NUTRITION LABELING AND FOOD OPPRESSION |
41 American Journal of Law & Medicine 315 (2015) |
Transparency for consumers through nutrition labeling should be the last, not the first, step in a transformative food policy that would reduce dramatic health disparities and raise the United States to the health standards of other nations with similar resources. Nonetheless, transparency in the food system is a key focal point of efforts to... |
2015 |
| Robert H. Abrams |
WATER LAW TRANSITIONS |
66 South Carolina Law Review 597 (Spring, 2015) |
I. The Limitations of Reasonable Use Riparianism and the Need for Change. 600 II. A Cameo Description of the Typical Regulated Riparianism System. 607 III. Looking at South Carolina's Act 247 of 2010: A Critique of Unusual Provisions in the South Carolina Statute. 611 A. The Law and its Principal Standard. 611 IV. Transition from Common Law... |
2015 |
| Carmen G. Gonzalez |
WORLD POVERTY AND FOOD INSECURITY |
3 Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs 56 (February, 2015) |
Our present global economic order produces a stable pattern of widespread malnutrition and starvation among the poor, with some eighteen million persons dying each year from povertyrelated causes, and there are likely to be feasible alternative regimes that will not produce similarly severe deprivations. If this is so, the victims of avoidable... |
2015 |
| Daniel K. Lee |
A CENTURY OF UNCERTAINTY AND THE NEW POLITICS OF INDIAN WATER SETTLEMENTS: HOW TRIBES AND STATES CAN OVERCOME THE CHILLING EFFECT OF THE PAYGO ACT |
92 Oregon Law Review 625 (2014) |
Introduction. 626 I. The Legal Background of Indian Water Rights Settlements. 627 A. The Law of Indian Reserved Water Rights. 628 B. The Trust Duty in Relation to Water Rights. 635 II. The Multilateral Benefits of Indian Water Rights Settlements. 637 III. Indian Water Settlements in the Era of PAYGO. 640 A. Requirements of the PAYGO Act. 640 B. One... |
2014 |
| Jesse Reiblich , Christine A. Klein |
CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER TRANSFERS |
41 Pepperdine Law Review 439 (March, 2014) |
Climate change adaptation is all about water. Although some governments have begun to plan for severe water disruptions, many have not. The consequences of inaction, however, may be dire. As a report of the U.N. Environment Programme warns, countries that adopt a wait and see approach potentially risk the lives of their people, their ecosystems... |
2014 |
| Oliver A. Houck |
COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM, NUTRIENTS, AND THE CLEAN WATER ACT: THREE CASES REVISITED |
44 Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis 10426 (May, 2014) |
Cooperative federalism varies widely from program to program, and depends on the relationship each statute prescribes. The Clean Water Act (CWA), while providing ample room for state participation, is heavily federal and leaves little about this relationship to chance. Nonetheless, the federal-state interplay goes on in as many venues as there are... |
2014 |
| Danielle M. Purifoy |
FOOD POLICY COUNCILS: INTEGRATING FOOD JUSTICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
24 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 375 (Spring, 2014) |
Beginning in 1982, food policy councils (FPCs) proliferated across North America as forums for democratic discourse and advocacy to develop sustainable food systems at the local, state, and regional levels. Challenging the industrialization of food production and distribution by corporate agribusiness, FPCs reflect the desire in many communities to... |
2014 |
| Amy Cordalis , Daniel Cordalis |
INDIAN WATER RIGHTS: HOW ARIZONA v. CALIFORNIA LEFT AN UNWANTED CLOUD OVER THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN |
5 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 333 (Fall, 2014) |
The Colorado River is one of the most important rivers in the world. The river's 1,400-mile journey from the Rocky Mountains to the Sea of Cortez takes on waters from seven states and from the reservations of twenty-eight Indian tribes along the way, 244,000 square miles of river basin in all. The Colorado River is also heavily managed: Its waters... |
2014 |
| Timothy D. Lytton , Lesley K. McAllister |
OVERSIGHT IN PRIVATE FOOD SAFETY AUDITING: ADDRESSING AUDITOR CONFLICT OF INTEREST |
2014 Wisconsin Law Review 289 (2014) |
Private auditing is a significant component of food safety regulation. Typically, manufacturers, retail sellers, and food-service operators require their suppliers to obtain food safety certification from a private third-party auditor paid by the supplier. Auditors' financial interest in acquiring accounts from suppliers who want the cheapest... |
2014 |
| Sara Gonzalez-Rothi Kronenthal |
THE RIPPLE EFFECT: HOW A LAWSUIT SEEKING CLEANER WATER MAY BE BACKFIRING |
3 LSU Journal of Energy Law & Resources 1 (Fall, 2014) |
Success in litigation requires more than a favorable order. For parties to achieve a desired outcome, forces outside the courtroom must not interfere with the legal victory. In 2009, conservation groups succeeded in negotiating a settlement that, on its face, seemed to promise cleaner water in Florida. However, a ripple of social and political... |
2014 |
| Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold , Olivia Odom Green , Daniel DeCaro , Alexandra Chase , Jennifer-Grace Ewa |
THE SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE OF AN EASTERN URBAN-SUBURBAN WATERSHED: THE ANACOSTIA RIVER BASIN |
51 Idaho Law Review 29 (2014) |
C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION. 30 II. INSTITUTIONAL-SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE ANACOSTIA RIVER WATERSHED. 36 A. The Watershed and Its Characteristics. 36 B. Transitions Across Thresholds: The History of Systemic Change in the Watershed. 40 1. Drivers of Change. 40 2. Transformations of the Watershed. 45 III. ASSESSING RESILIENCE. 69 A.... |
2014 |
| Amy Hardberger |
WATER IS A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND: EXAMINING THE WATER VALUATION DILEMMA |
62 University of Kansas Law Review 893 (May, 2014) |
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. . . . . Only what is rare is valuable, and water, which is the best of all things . . . is also the cheapest. These two quotes personify the current challenge facing water sustainability and the role of markets. Reflected in these words is a traditional economic model of supply and demand and... |
2014 |
| Cameryn Rivera |
A FRESHER LAW: AMENDING THE FLORIDA RIGHT TO FARM ACT TO INCLUDE URBAN MICRO FARMING AS A KEY INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY, FOOD ACCESS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES |
8 Florida A & M University Law Review 385 (Spring, 2013) |
Introduction. 386 I. The History and Evolution of Urban Micro Farming: From Victory Gardens to Big City Farms. 388 II. Food Policy Concerns in Florida. 395 A. Tallahassee: Maintaining Sustainable Principles. 396 B. Jacksonville: The Necessity of Food Security. 397 C. Orlando: The Negative Impacts of Food Injustice. 401 III. The Florida Right To... |
2013 |
| Michelle Bryan Mudd |
A NEXT, BIG STEP FOR THE WEST: USING MODEL LEGISLATION TO CREATE A WATER-CLIMATE ELEMENT IN LOCAL COMPREHENSIVE PLANS |
3 Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 1 (June, 2013) |
Since it touches all we do and experience, water creates a language through which we may discuss our common future. The West is witnessing early, important efforts to join water supply and land use planning, and the reality of climate change makes this convergence all the more critical. Local comprehensive planning presents itself as an... |
2013 |