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Hannah Harris , Macquarie Law School, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Research Fellow, Financial Integrity Hub, Sydney, Australia, e-mail: Hannah.harris@mq.edu.au FINANCING ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME: FINANCIAL SECTOR COMPLICITY IN GLOBAL DEFORESTATION AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR REGULATORY INTERVENTION 115 IUS Gentium 43 (2024) Abstract In recent years, governments around the world have passed laws that criminalise the importation of illegally harvested timber in an effort to combat harmful deforestation and protect vital forest ecosystems. These destination country laws' focus on one important aspect of this substantial challenge, but they ignore the role of financial... 2024  
Matthew G. Burgess FIVE CONSIDERATIONS FOR TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CLIMATE POLICY 18 FIU Law Review 283 (Spring, 2024) As the twenty-first century advances, society is entering a new phase regarding climate change. Impacts of climate change are becoming more salient in the present, rather than being only far-off in the future. Progress on flattening--and in many affluent countries, reducing--greenhouse gas emissions is also becoming salient, though the progress... 2024  
Ryan M. Rodenberg FLORIDA SPORTS BETTING LANDS AT THE SUPREME COURT--TWICE 75 Florida Law Review Forum 46 (2024) Florida is the epicenter of sports betting litigation. In two separate filings by the same party only days apart--one at the U.S. Supreme Court and the other at the Supreme Court of Florida -- the possibility of legal online sports gambling in the Sunshine State has landed in both Washington, D.C. and Tallahassee. At issue in both cases is the... 2024  
Mary Slosson FORCE MAJEURE AND THE LAW OF THE COLORADO RIVER: THE CONFLUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, CONTRACTS, AND THE CONSTITUTION 95 University of Colorado Law Review 709 (2024) Climate change is causing significant, permanent changes to the natural world. In the Colorado River Basin, experts forecast that rising temperatures will cause the spread of a drier, more arid climate across the region. The effects of this desertification are already being felt: less rainfall, the loss of deciduous forests, wildfires that engulf... 2024  
Danielle Cossey FREE PEOPLE OVER FREE MARKETS: ADDRESSING THE SUPPRESSION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISSENT THROUGH TRADE AGREEMENTS IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES 14 Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy 1 (January, 2024) I. Introduction II. Foreign Direct Investment and the Suppression of Dissent A. Environmental Defenders in Mexico and the U.S. B. Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Suppressing Dissent i. Violence and Impunity ii. Criminalization and Stigmatization iii. Procedural Barriers III. Governing Environmental Defenders, States, and Foreign Direct... 2024  
Reed D. Benson GREEN MONEY FOR WESTERN WATERS: NEW ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTS AND FEDERAL WATER POLICY 54 Environmental Law Reporter (ELI) 10040 (January, 2024) Congress in the 2020s has authorized three new environmentally focused grant programs relating to western waters and appropriated $450 million in multi-year funding. The Bureau of Reclamation is responsible for creating and implementing these programs, giving it a new tool and resources for addressing stubborn environmental problems--some caused by... 2024  
Margaret Von Rotz HONORING INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY AND CONSENT: LEGAL FRAMEWORKS FOR ADDRESSING INDIGENOUS DISPLACEMENT DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE 30 UC Law Environmental Journal 197 (May, 2024) Climate change-induced displacement is not only a possibility but a present reality. This problem affects marginalized communities everywhere, but Indigenous peoples, particularly those in disappearing States, are especially climate-vulnerable and often at risk of losing their ancestral lands forever due to climate change. Despite the inevitability... 2024  
Anya T. Janssen , Robert Lundberg HOW TRIBES RESPOND TO CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS 97-JUN Wisconsin Lawyer 32 (June, 2024) The earth's changing climate has significant ramifications for Indian tribes' subsistence needs, public health, economic stability, sovereignty, and traditional ways of life. This article discusses some causes of environmental harms that are faced by tribes in Wisconsin and nearby states and legal and policy approaches tribes can take to address... 2024  
Heather Tanana INDIGENOUS SCIENCE AND CLIMATE RESPONSES 49 Human Rights 18 (2024) The effects of climate change are increasingly being experienced around the world. From record-high temperatures and rising sea levels to aridification and wildfires--no one is immune. And, Indigenous people are often living on the frontlines, experiencing the first and worst consequences of climate change. Early in his administration, President... 2024  
Zachary Pavlik INTERSTATE WATER COMPACTING AND THE SILENCED SOVEREIGN: FEDERAL APPOINTEES AS A TRIGGER FOR THE FEDERAL TRUST RESPONSIBILITY 27 University of Denver Water Law Review 67 (Spring, 2024) I. INTRODUCTION. 68 II. INTERSTATE COMPACTING AND THE THREE SOVEREIGNS: FEDERAL, STATE, AND INDIAN INTERESTS. 70 A. The States as the Core Sovereigns in Interstate Compact Creation: A Framework Built to Facilitate and Further State Interests. 71 B. Federal Government as the Supreme Sovereign: Let the Children Play, So Long as They Don't Break... 2024  
Lachlan Loudon IS 'AINA STILL SACRED? HOW HAWAII'S UNIQUE ENVIRONMENT CREATES CONTROVERSIES IN PROPERTY OWNERSHIP IN THE AFTERMATH OF DISASTER 12 Joule: Duquesne Energy & Environmental Law Journal 34 (Spring, 2024) In August 2023, wildfires ravaged neighborhoods throughout Maui, Hawaii, resulting in hundreds of individuals dead or missing. The tragic blazes not only left survivors without homes but also put their scorched land on the auction block for prospective, wealthy buyers looking for a beachside plot of land to develop. Due to homeowners being... 2024  
Eric Biber, Christopher Elmendorf, Nicholas Marantz, Moira O'Neill JUST LOOK AT THE MAP: BOUNDING ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN CALIFORNIA 54 Environmental Law 221 (Winter, 2024) California faces a dire housing crisis. California's land-use regulatory system remains a key driver of this crisis. State law grants local governments broad power to craft their own regulations on how to review and approve housing development. Though state law may limit a locality's ability to outright deny some types of housing development, local... 2024  
Luca Greco , Hannah Perls JUST RELOCATION: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF THE UNIFORM RELOCATION ACT 37 Harvard Human Rights Journal 319 (Summer, 2024) As climate change increases the severity and frequency of hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and other natural disasters, more people are being temporarily or permanently displaced from their homes. In 2022, the Census Bureau estimated that 3.4 million adults were temporarily or permanently displaced in the United States because of these events.... 2024  
Richard J. Lazarus, Andrew Slottje JUSTICE GORSUCH AND THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 43 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 1 (February, 2024) I. Introduction. 2 II. Justice Gorsuch's Nomination. 6 III. Justice Gorsuch's Environmental Record: A Quantitative Assessment. 10 IV. Justice Gorsuch's Environmental Record: A Qualitative Assessment. 18 A. Separation of Powers. 19 B. Federalism. 27 C. Personal Liberty and Autonomy. 39 V. Conclusion. 48 2024  
John Knox KEYNOTE SPEECH BY JOHN KNOX, FORMER U.N. SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT 56 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 77 (Spring, 2024) It is really a pleasure to be here at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. I'd like to thank the organizers of this Conference and especially my old friend, Dean Michael Scharf. We worked together at the State Department Legal Adviser's Office thirty years ago. I also want to acknowledge someone who's no longer with us, although I... 2024  
  KNWAI FROM AHI: REVITALIZING THE HAWAI'I WATER CODE IN THE WAKE OF THE MAUI WILDFIRES 137 Harvard Law Review 1994 (May, 2024) When the Maui wildfires in August 2023 forced Tereari'i Chandler-'ao to flee Lahaina, she could take only the necessities: food, clothes, and a box of water use-permit applications. The final item reflects an important quality of the fires: their focal point was not fire, but water. Since the birth of Hawai'i's sugar industry, recurrent water... 2024  
Alida Pitcher-Murray LANDBACK AND THE CASE FOR LAND RESTITUTION: HOW THE SOUTH AFRICAN LAND CLAIMS COURT AND RESTITUTION PROGRAMME CAN INFORM THE RETURN OF INDIGENOUS LAND IN THE UNITED STATES 28 U.C. Davis Social Justice Law Review 1 (Winter, 2024) C1-2Table of Contents Abstract. 3 I. Part I: Introduction. 4 II. Part II: Settler Colonialism, the Indian Court of Claims, and the Land Claims Commission. 8 A. Treaties, Treaties, Theft, and Federal Policy as the Foundations for Native Land Loss. 8 1. Treaty Violations. 9 2. Federal Indian Policy. 11 3. The Demand for the Return of He Sapa. 14 B.... 2024  
Evelyn Brister , Andrea R. Gammon , Paul B. Thompson , Terrence R. Tiersch , Nikolas Zuchowicz MANIPULATING TIME BY CRYOPRESERVATION: DESIGNING AN ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURE BY MAINTAINING A PORTAL TO THE PAST 52 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 637 (Fall, 2024) Keywords: Advanced Cryopreservation, Conservation, Emerging Technology, Ethics, Justice Abstract: This article explores how time-related metaphors frame advanced cryopreservation technologies in environmental conservation. Cryopreservation stops or freezes biological time and buys time desperately needed to preserve species and ecosystems. We... 2024  
Stephanie Stern, A. Dan Tarlock MOVING WATER: MANAGED RETREAT OF WESTERN AGRICULTURAL WATER RIGHTS FOR INSTREAM FLOWS 49 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 249 (2024) Climate change-induced megadrought and rapid urbanization are forcing western agriculture into retreat as water supplies diminish and heat and drought ravage crops and livestock. At the same time, the megadrought is imposing deep ecological harm on riparian areas, fish species, and soil and increasing the concentration of pollutants in dwindling... 2024  
Hunter Collins NATIONAL MONUMENTS AND THE ANTIQUITIES ACT: THE PRESIDENT'S POWER TO CONSERVE 30 PERCENT OF OUR NATION'S LANDS BY 2030 13 Chicago-Kent Journal of Environmental and Energy Law 37 (Spring, 2024) Climate change is an existential threat to the United States, as well as the entire world. The enormity of the problem cannot be overstated, yet the United States has failed to respond to this growing crisis appropriately. Despite the immense importance of land conservation in mitigating the impact of climate change, the United States has only... 2024  
Kyle R. Mack NAVIGATING THE WATERS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VESSEL GHG EMISSIONS REGULATIONS UNDER THE CLEAN AIR ACT AND MARPOL 48 Tulane Maritime Law Journal 253 (Spring, 2024) I. Introduction. 253 A. Overview and Background of Pollution Control in the Maritime Context. 255 B. Reasons for the Problem. 255 1. Public Governance Deficits. 255 2. Market Failures. 257 3. Enforcement Limitations. 258 II. U.S. Environmental Protections for Foreign Flagged Vessels?. 259 A. The Clean Air Act: Limitations. 262 B. The Need for... 2024  
Sarah Schindler, Kellen Zale NEIGHBORS WITHOUT NOTICE: THE UNEQUAL TREATMENT OF TENANTS AND HOMEOWNERS IN LAND USE HEARING PROCEDURES 59 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 339 (Spring, 2024) Recent empirical work has suggested that the people who show up at land use hearings tend to be whiter, wealthier, older, and more likely to be homeowners than the surrounding community. They also are more opposed to new housing construction in their communities. Thus, the views of these groups are amplified and the outsized opposition to new... 2024  
Heream Yang NEPA'S ENVIRONMENTAL VISION: CLOSE, BUT NOT QUITE 42 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 120 (2024) The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has been hailed as the Magna Carta of environmental law. NEPA not only crystalized the nation's environmental vision in its Declaration of National Environmental Policy, but it also formalized the federal government's relationship with the environment by requiring agencies to consider environmental... 2024  
Sonia Lei PACIFIC ISLANDS AND THE U.S. MILITARY: THE LEGAL BORDERLANDS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT 47 Seattle University Law Review 1547 (Spring, 2024) Climate change remains an urgent, ongoing global issue that requires critical examination of institutional polluters. This includes the world's largest institutional consumer of petroleum: the United States military. The Department of Defense (DoD) is a massive institution with little oversight, a carbon footprint spanning the globe, a budget... 2024  
Adam Fisher PAY TO PLAY? THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF RECREATION FEES ON FEDERAL PUBLIC LANDS 54 Environmental Law Reporter (ELI) 10127 (February, 2024) The United States has historically valued free access to most public lands. But federal land management agencies also rely on users' fee dollars to support critical operations. This tension between free access and user pays has been an important feature of public land law since the late 1800s. The primary statute at issue is the Federal Lands... 2024  
Benjamin W. Cramer POLLUTERS ANONYMOUS: HOW EXEMPTIONS TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT CONTRADICT AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 39 Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation 125 (2024) Introduction. 125 I. Informational Requirements of American Environmental Law. 127 A. The National Environmental Policy Act. 127 B. Pollution Control Statutes. 130 C. The Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. 134 II. Exemption 3 of the Freedom of Information Act. 136 A. Judicial History of Exemption 3. 139 B. Environmentally Relevant... 2024  
Christine Billy PREPARING FOR THE CLIMATE CRISIS: OSHA, DEADLY HEAT, AND EMERGENCY POWERS 51 Ecology Law Quarterly 57 (2024) In April of 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration reviewed a petition brought by seven State Attorneys General urging the agency to issue an emergency rule addressing deadly workplace heat exposure. The agency acknowledged the acute hazards that heat poses to workers but decided against emergency intervention. A few months later,... 2024  
Madelaine Ackermann PRESERVING ECUADOR'S NATURAL WONDERS: A REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO PROTECTING INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES' ANCESTRAL LANDS 32 Michigan State International Law Review 433 (2024) South America, home to the Amazon Rainforest, is essential for combating climate change. Historically, thousands of indigenous groups have called the Amazon home, but have been forced off their land and have been granted no legal rights to their land. Although several countries in South America have expressed the importance of preserving the... 2024  
Hannah Ellis PRESERVING PASTORALIST LIFESTYLES IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE-INDUCED DROUGHTS IN KENYA: IMPROVING LAND TENURE THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS 24 Sustainable Development Law & Policy 4 (Spring, 2024) C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. 5 Part I. Pastoralism and Climate Change Acceleration. 5 A. What is Pastoralism?. 5 B. Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier. 6 C. Misunderstandings about Pastoralism. 6 Part II. Existing Legal Framework in Kenya. 8 A. Civil Rights and Environmental Protections in the Constitution. 8 B. Land Rights Laws. 8 Part... 2024  
Amanda N. Misasi PROSECUTING THE CRIMES OF CLIMATE CHANGE UNDER ARTICLE 7 OF THE ROME STATUTE 32 Michigan State International Law Review 129 (2024) The potential application of other inhumane acts under article 7(1)(k) of the Rome Statute to prosecute individuals most responsible for the climate crisis for crimes against humanity. This thesis attempts to establish that the current legal framework of crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court allows for... 2024  
Sarah A. Matsumoto PROTECTING WATER, SUSTAINING COMMUNITIES: TRANSFORMING GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT ENTITIES INTO SOURCES OF POWER DURING AND AFTER ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES 92 UMKC Law Review 825 (Summer, 2024) Groundwater serves as a vital, limited resource for people all over the world. The United States Geological Survey reports that about 140 million people in the United States rely on groundwater for drinking water, of those, almost 43 million people rely on groundwater from domestic (or private, non-public supply) wells. In rural areas, groundwater... 2024  
John D. Leshy PUBLIC LANDS AND NATIVE AMERICANS: A GUIDE TO CURRENT ISSUES 47 Public Land & Resources Law Review 1 (2024) I. Introduction. 1 II. Dispossession History in Relation to Today's Public Lands. 5 III. Many Native Americans and Non-Native Public Land Protection Advocates Have Strong Common Interests. 9 IV. U.S. Protection of Culturally Important Public Lands. 10 V. The Climate Challenge. 13 VI. Other Complications in Addressing Native Concerns on Public Lands... 2024  
Lisa Benjamin RACIAL CAPITALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE: COLONIALISM AND CLIMATE LAW AND POLICY IN THE COMMONWEALTH 41 Wisconsin International Law Journal 577 (Summer, 2024) This Article provides a snapshot of current climate policy and litigation experiences in a select group of Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, India, Pakistan, Kiribati, and The Bahamas. It traces current domestic climate policies and litigation experiences back to the colonial histories of these countries. These Commonwealth... 2024  
Carmen G. Gonzalez RACIAL CAPITALISM, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND ECOCIDE 41 Wisconsin International Law Journal 479 (Summer, 2024) Lawyers, scholars, and activists have long sought to incorporate ecocide into the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to address corporate and governmental impunity for massive and severe ecological damage, including the harms caused by climate change. This Article uses the framework of racial capitalism to examine and critique the... 2024  
Albert C. Lin RATIONING PUBLIC LANDS 104 Boston University Law Review 345 (March, 2024) Visitation at national parks and other public lands has surged to record levels, a trend intensified in many places by the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the popularity of public lands has led to congestion, a degraded outdoor experience, and damage to natural resources. In response, land managers have adopted capacity limits, reservation... 2024  
Dylan R. Hedden-Nicely REBALANCING WINTERS: INDIGENOUS WATER RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES 48 Harvard Environmental Law Review 489 (2024) C1-2Table of contents Introduction. 490 I. The Historical Development of Western Water Law. 491 II. The Devolution of the Quantification Method for Reserved Irrigation Water Rights for Tribes. 496 A. The Original Understanding of the Winters Doctrine. 496 B. The Balance Struck in Arizona v. California. 508 C. The Contemporary Method for Estimating... 2024  
Sonia Sikka, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Ottawa, Canada, ssikka@uottawa.ca RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND SACRED LANDS 39 Journal of Law and Religion 116 (January, 2024) Taking Ktunaxa Nation v. British Columbia as a focal point, the author argues that the legal framing of Indigenous sacred land claims in terms of religious freedom carries significant costs. It impels courts to bracket consideration of sovereignty and territorial rights, while positioning Indigenous worldviews as nonrational rather than as dynamic... 2024  
David A. Green REMINISCENT OF THE LITTLE ROCK NINE AND RUBY BRIDGES: PRESENT DAY RACIALLY OFFENSIVE COMMENTS THAT CREATE A HOSTILE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT 23 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 72 (Fall, 2023-Winter, 2024) Education . means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free. - Frederick Douglass Dr. William Anderson is a full professor at Anystate University, within the University's College of Arts & Sciences, Liberal Arts and Humanities... 2024  
Clara Potter, Lauren Godshall RENTING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: CLIMATE CHANGE PROTECTIONS FAILING RENTERS 74 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 117 (2024) American law and policy are designed to protect property owners. Unsurprisingly, this extends to the policies and laws that are developing in response to climate change. Renters, however, are a massive part of the population, particularly in the places most likely to be impacted in the near and long-term by the effects of climate change. Yet... 2024  
Taylor Graham RESOLVING CONFLICTS BETWEEN TRIBAL AND STATE REGULATORY AUTHORITY OVER WATER 112 California Law Review 625 (April, 2024) In 2017, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians affirmed their legal right to water in a landmark victory in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In an exercise of its sovereign authority, the Tribe then implemented a permit system to regulate use of the groundwater underlying its reservation. But local and state water agencies already have a... 2024  
Richard E. Levy , University of Kansas School of Law RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF LAND 93-AUG Kansas Bar Journal 11 (July/August, 2024) In the 2024 session, the Kansas Legislature approved SB 172, the Kansas Land and Military Installation Act. The KLMI would prohibit the ownership of land within 100 miles of a military installation in the state by certain foreign adversaries of the United States. Although the Legislature failed to override the governor's veto of the bill, it seems... 2024  
Alexis Studler REVIVING INDIAN COUNTRY: EXPANDING ALASKA NATIVE VILLAGES' TRIBAL LAND BASES THROUGH FEE-TO-TRUST ACQUISITIONS 29 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 125 (Spring, 2024) For the last fifty years, the possibility of fee-to-trust acquisitions in Alaska has been precarious at best. This is largely due to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA), which eschewed the traditional reservation system in favor of corporate land ownership and management. Despite its silence on trust acquisitions, ANCSA was and... 2024  
Mia M. Rahim, Guy C. Charlton, Abhay Kanwar RIVER WATER REGULATION IN INDIA: THE CHALLENGES OF THE ENTANGLED STATE 19 University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review 419 (June, 2024) The inland river water regulations in India have become complicated by debates over river ownership, environmental sustainability, native aspirations, and industrial growth. This Article argues that such complexities surrounding the river water regulations inform a state of entanglement which cannot be addressed without invoking the unique way... 2024  
Jonathan Liljeblad SEA PEOPLES & MARINE PLASTIC POLLUTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH IN SUPPORT OF INDIGENOUS RIGHTS TO ENVIRONMENT 27 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 59 (Spring, 2024) The paper explores the potential for international human rights law to further articulation of indigenous rights to environment. The paper does so by using the case of sea peoples struggling against marine plastic pollution in Southeast Asia as an illustration clarifying how provisions in international human rights instruments can advance... 2024  
Chairwoman Charlene Nelson , Geoff Strommer SEEKING HIGHER GROUND--HOW CONGRESS CAN HELP TRIBES BEING PUSHED TO THEIR LIMITS DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE 49 Human Rights 8 (2024) After months and years of natural disasters and extreme weather events, even the skeptics are having a hard time denying the obvious: climate change is here. And the climate refugees are coming. Many of the first will be Indigenous people, who are often those most affected by climate impacts and who, from all over the world, have been sounding the... 2024  
Bryn Arnold SILENCE IS VIOLENCE: PROTECTING TITLE IX VICTIMS BY APPLYING TITLE VI'S HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT FRAMEWORK TO CLAIMS OF FURTHER VULNERABILITY 56 Texas Tech Law Review 783 (Summer, 2024) Student-on-student sexual harassment is a serious problem that often goes unnoticed in K-12 education as well as universities. Under Title IX, these federally funded educational institutions owe a duty to their students to protect them from sex discrimination, specifically when there has been a reported incident of sexual harassment and the... 2024  
Sarah J. Fox SOIL GOVERNANCE AND PRIVATE PROPERTY 2024 Utah Law Review 1 (2024) This is an Article about soil. In consequence, it is also an Article about our relationship to land, and about how that relationship can and must change to confront the many environmental crises facing the United States. Questions about our relationship with the physical environment around us necessarily come to the fore in conversations about soil... 2024  
Anya T. Janssen , Melissa K. Scanlan SOLVING THE PHOSPHORUS PARADOX: FIVE STATES' APPROACHES TO RESTORING NUTRIENT IMPAIRED SURFACE WATER QUALITY 47-SPG Environs Environmental Law and Policy Journal 159 (Spring, 2024) The phosphorus paradox is a phrase coined to call attention to a challenge of scarcity pitted against overabundance, a story of necessity for a naturally scarce critical element that unfolds into a world of excess and degradation. We depend on phosphorus to feed the world and yet do not treat it as precious nor manage it as finite. Decades of... 2024  
Elizabeth Stephani SOUTH AFRICA LAND REFORM: MORE IS LESS 49 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 420 (2024) Tension surrounding White land ownership in South Africa persists nearly twenty years after the historic 1994 elections ushered in the a new era of freedom for non-White South Africans. White South Africans still own 72 percent of the country's private farmland. These realities have fueled political hate speech; including the controversial rally... 2024  
Hon. Kostan R. Lathouris , CHIEF JUDGE OF THE LAS VEGAS PAIUTE TRIBAL COURT SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION, AND LANDS MATTER 32-FEB Nevada Lawyer 18 (February, 2024) The lights of a county law enforcement vehicle flashed in my rearview mirror. I had just left the reservation and was driving on a part of the road where everyone ignored the posted speed limits--unless, of course, there were donkeys wandering around. There were no donkeys that day. I was speeding, no question about it. So, I pulled over and waited... 2024  
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