| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Danielle A. Bernstein |
REASONABLENESS IN HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT CASES AFTER #METOO |
28 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 119 (2021) |
The #MeToo movement, a global social response to sexual harassment in the workplace, has turned the traditional approach to sexual harassment on its head. Instead of shielding perpetrators and discrediting survivors, employers, the media, and the public have begun to shift from presuming the credibility of the perpetrator to presuming the... |
2021 |
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| Bernard James |
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE LIABILITY: SCHOOL DISCIPLINE REFORM AND THE RIGHT TO SAFE SCHOOLS |
51 University of Memphis Law Review 557 (Spring, 2021) |
I. The Common Wisdom on Student Safety. 557 II. Alterations in the Underlying Law on Student Safety. 561 III. School Discipline Reform: Conflicting Responses to Misconduct. 568 IV. The Three Great Questions on Liability. 573 Litigation challenging school discipline policies is on the upswing. Ordinarily, courts act to constrain judicial review of... |
2021 |
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| Samia R. Broadaway, Paulina Williams |
RETROSPECTIVE ON DRINKING WATER LITIGATION FROM FLINT, MICHIGAN |
52 No. 4 ABA Trends 6 (March/April, 2021) |
The facts of Flint, Michigan's water crisis are now well known: in April 2014, the city of Flint, facing serious financial trouble, was supervised by an emergency manager appointed by then-Governor Snyder. The emergency manager was tasked with implementing cost-saving measures. In one such cost-saving effort, the city switched its water supply from... |
2021 |
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| Monica Krup |
RIOT BOOSTING: SOUTH DAKOTA'S INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL, IndigenOUS, AND FIRST AMENDMENT CONCERNS AND THE RHETORIC ON PROTEST |
22 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 293 (2021) |
In early 2019, the South Dakota legislature passed an urgent law that punishes and criminalizes those who participate in riots throughout the state. The law was a clear infringement on First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association rights and was executed as a direct response to the Standing Rock protests occurring in North Dakota... |
2021 |
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| Dana McClure |
SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE: ANTI-PROTEST LAWS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT |
11 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 209 (Summer, 2021) |
So raise your fists And march around Just don't take what you need I'll jail and bury those committed And smother the rest in greed Since 2017, in response to the nonviolent protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, more than a dozen states across the country adopted legislation limiting citizens' ability to protest against fossil fuel... |
2021 |
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| Cristal E. Jones, M.B.A. , University of Oregon School of Law |
STILL STRANGERS IN THE LAND: ACHIEVEMENT BARRIERS, BURDENS, AND BRIDGES FACING African american STUDENTS WITHIN PREDOMINATELY WHITE LAW SCHOOLS |
39 Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality 13 (Winter, 2021) |
This Article examines the barriers to an environment where African American law students no longer view themselves, and no longer are viewed as, what American abolitionist Harriet Tubman coined, a stranger in a strange land. In this Article, I explain the research on the structural, psychological, and social factors that face the African American... |
2021 |
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| James Pollack , Frank Sturges |
STRUGGLING TO FIND A RAPANOS NEXUS: MAUI AND THE EXPANSION OF CLEAN WATER ACT REGULATION |
48 Ecology Law Quarterly 49 (2021) |
The Supreme Court has long struggled to define the scope of federal jurisdiction over pollution control under the Clean Water Act (CWA). During the Court's last term, that issue returned to the forefront in County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund. The case involved pollution from a wastewater treatment facility that reached the Pacific Ocean... |
2021 |
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| Jeff Todd |
THE (DE)MYSTIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE: A DRAMATISTIC ANALYSIS OF LAW |
93 Temple Law Review 597 (Spring, 2021) |
Although Kenneth Burke is the preeminent rhetorician of the modern era, and his theories have been applied to issues of social change and the environment (including by legal scholars), the role of justice and law in his critical method of dramatism have received only passing treatment. This Article is therefore the first in any discipline to... |
2021 |
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| Robert B. Keiter |
THE EMERGING LAW OF OUTDOOR RECREATION ON THE PUBLIC LANDS |
51 Environmental Law 89 (Spring, 2021) |
Outdoor recreation is assuming a prominent role across the public lands, presenting the responsible federal agencies with difficult, new management challenges. Since World War II, recreational uses of public lands have been on a steady upward trajectory, which has only accelerated during this century. Today, an increasingly diverse array of outdoor... |
2021 |
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| Roger Merino |
THE LAND OF NationS: IndigenOUS STRUGGLES FOR PROPERTY AND TERRITORY IN INTERNationAL LAW |
115 AJIL Unbound 129 (2021) |
Key studies have highlighted how Western law was central to the civilizing mission of colonialism, legitimizing conquest while presenting itself as a colonizer's gift for overcoming barbarism. But law was not just an imposition to dispossess resources and accumulate labor; it was also transformed by the contestations of First Nations and the new... |
2021 |
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| Ann M. Eisenberg, Elizabeth Kronk Warner |
THE PRECIPICE OF JUSTICE: EQUITY, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN Indian COUNTRY AND RURAL COMMUNITIES |
42 Energy Law Journal 281 (2021) |
Editor's Note: As the authors mention at footnote 1, the ideas presented in their essay were first shared during a panel presentation in February of this year at the at the University of Florida Levin College of Law's annual Public Interest Environmental Conference. We and the authors have described their piece as an essay and not an article... |
2021 |
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| Meghan O'Connor |
THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR HAS THE AUTHORITY TO TAKE LAND INTO TRUST FOR FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED ALASKA TribES |
45 American Indian Law Review 89 (2021) |
Acreage proves Alaska is the largest state in the United States by far, but for Alaska Natives this land, specifically trust land, has posed an issue for decades. For almost forty years, the Department of the Interior (DOI) has debated over whether the Secretary of the Interior can take land into trust in Alaska. Trust land is an important tool to... |
2021 |
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| Chloe Ahmann, Cornell University |
THE SUSTAINABILITY MYTH: ENVIRONMENTAL GENTRIFICATION AND THE POLITICS OF JUSTICE, MELISSA CHECKER (NEW YORK: NYU PRESS, 2020) |
44 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 1 (2021) |
I ordered them to build [the Emerald City], and . I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green. But isn't everything here green? asked Dorothy. No more than in any other city, replied Oz. - L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Surely this is the revelation Melissa Checker has in mind when she calls... |
2021 |
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| Barry E. Hill |
TIME HAS COME TODAY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE LEGISLATION |
51 Environmental Law Reporter (ELI) 10102 (February, 2021) |
The Stock Market Crash of 1929, and the Great Depression that followed from August 1929-March 1933, shook the foundation of America to its core. During a July 24, 1933, radio address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) coined the phrase the first 100 days, specifically referring to the period of time in which a new administration's success in... |
2021 |
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| Samantha T. Edgell |
TOTO, I'VE A FEELING THE ENVIRONMENT ISN'T SAFE FROM CRYPTOCURRENCY ANYMORE: THE DEGRADING ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF BITCOIN AND DIGITAL CURRENCIES |
32 Villanova Environmental Law Journal 69 (2021) |
Cryptocurrencies are traded forms of digital assets that are extracted from digital locations after high-powered computers run complex algorithms. The mining of cryptocurrencies has a detrimental effect on the environment. Although it may seem that cryptocurrency and climate change are unrelated, studies have shown there to be a strong connection.... |
2021 |
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| Jaime Alison Lee |
TURNING PARTICIPATION INTO POWER: A WATER JUSTICE CASE STUDY |
28 George Mason Law Review 1003 (Spring, 2021) |
Water systems throughout the United States are broken, both literally and figuratively. The purpose of water utilities is to provide access to clean and convenient water, which promotes human health and productivity. Yet, a growing number of utilities charge unconscionable prices for water and otherwise carry out policies that decrease, rather than... |
2021 |
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| Alyson Merlin |
UNENFORCED PROMISES: TREATY RIGHTS AS A MECHANISM TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT OF ENERGY PROJECTS NEAR TribAL LANDS |
11 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 373 (April, 2021) |
Treaties between the United States and Native nations are binding until abrogated by the clear and plain intent of Congress. Many treaties signed in the 18th and 19th centuries remain unabrogated, but are also unenforced by the courts of the United States. The Dewey Burdock Project is a proposed uranium mining operation which would sit adjacent to... |
2021 |
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| Skye M. Walker |
WARS, WALLS, AND WRECKED ECOSYSTEMS: THE CASE FOR PRIORITIZING ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION IN A NationAL SECURITY-CENTRIC LEGAL SYSTEM |
51 Environmental Law 913 (Summer, 2021) |
Maintaining a strong military. Furthering national security by securing the skies, seas, and borders. Promoting peace and order by using tear gas to diffuse chaotic and potentially dangerous situations. To the U.S. government, these are laudable objectives--objectives that often outweigh other policy goals such as environmental conservation. As a... |
2021 |
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| Jennifer J. Seely |
WATER BANKS IN WASHINGTON STATE: A TOOL FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE |
96 Washington Law Review 729 (June, 2021) |
Water banks--a tool for exchanging senior water rights and offsetting new ones--can address multiple problems in contemporary water law. In the era of climate change, water banks enable needed flexibility and resilience in water allocation. As growing cities require new water rights, water banks can repurpose old water for new uses. These... |
2021 |
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| Philippe Cullet , Lovleen Bhullar , Sujith Koonan |
WATER SECURITY AND INTERNationAL LAW |
17 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 261 (2021) |
energy, environment, food, international law, rights, security, water International law seeks to ensure water security and to prevent or resolve conflicts leading to water insecurity. This relationship is based on a hybrid framework comprising binding and nonbinding instruments. The multiscalar dimensions of water (in)security are recognized, but... |
2021 |
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| Jessica Intermill |
WE LIVE NOT ALONE |
78-JUL Bench and Bar of Minnesota 20 (July, 2021) |
As Enbridge races to complete its new Line 3 tar sands pipeline across Minnesota, 17-year-old Jaiden Ellington-Vasser grabs a quick bite. School is out for the day, and she has 45 minutes before her clerk shift starts at the grocery store. Ellington-Vasser knows firsthand that the Public Utilities Commission's decision to approve construction of... |
2021 |
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| Rachel Casper |
WHEN HARASSMENT AT WORK IS HARASSMENT AT CHURCH: HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENTS AND THE MINISTERIAL EXCEPTION |
25 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 11 (2021) |
Sexual harassment and harassment on the basis of race, national origin, disability, and age are unlawful workplace practices; what does that mean when one's workplace is a church? This article explores the ministerial exception's application to hostile work environment claims. Can ministerial employees bring harassment claims against... |
2021 |
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| Michael Lewyn |
ZONING AND LAND USE PLANNING |
50 Real Estate Law Journal 453 (Summer, 2021) |
Most economists believe that cities must permit more housing to be built in order to curt rising rents and home prices. Dense, multifamily housing is especially useful, because when many people live within walking distance of public transit, shops and jobs, more people can reach these destinations without driving, thus reducing carbon emissions and... |
2021 |
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| Joseph Regalia |
A NEW WATER LAW VISTA: ROOTING THE PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE IN THE COURTS |
108 Kentucky Law Journal 1 (2019-2020) |
C1-2Table of Contents Table of Contents. 1 I. A Public Trust Bootcamp. 7 II. Some States Have Embraced their Trust Obligations to Meet Evolving Threats to Water Resources; Some Have Shed their Duties Completely. 12 A. We are in a water crisis and adaptive, aggressive action is needed to protect precious water resources, especially in the west. 12... |
2020 |
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| Luis Inaraja Vera |
ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF VOLUNTARY ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS |
2020 Utah Law Review 795 (2020) |
In recent years, government agencies have increasingly relied on voluntary programs to achieve a variety of goals, from improving worker safety to creating healthier living conditions in urban areas. This type of government initiative is based on a bargain between the agency and private citizens: the government provides certain incentives--economic... |
2020 |
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| David M. Uhlmann |
BACK TO THE FUTURE: CREATING A BIPARTISAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY |
50 Environmental Law Reporter (ELI) 10800 (October, 2020) |
On a clear day, you can see Chicago, my father insisted. I squinted. It was the early 1970s, and all I could see across Lake Michigan were the steel mills and oil refineries that dotted the Indiana coast, belching thick fumes into the air. My father had been coming to the shores of Lake Michigan since the 1940s, when his parents built a small... |
2020 |
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| Allison N. Kruschke |
CHALLENGING LAND CONTRACTING ON THE BASIS OF DISPARATE IMPACT AFTER TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS v. INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES PROJECT, INC.: A VIABLE OPTION OR A DEAD END? |
2020 Michigan State Law Review 547 (2020) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 548 I. Land Contracts and Their History in the United States. 556 A. The Nature and Governance of Land Contracts. 557 B. The Predatory Nature of Land Contracts Versus Traditional Mortgages. 560 1. Land Contracts and Their Differences from Mortgages. 560 2. The Conditions of Homes Sold Via Land Contract and Unjust... |
2020 |
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CHAPTER FOUR ALOHA 'INA: NATIVE HAWAIIAN LAND RESTITUTION |
133 Harvard Law Review 2148 (April, 2020) |
When I speak at this time of the Hawaiian people, I refer to the children of the soil--the native inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands and their descendants. --Queen Lili'uokalani Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the island of Hawai'i, is home to sacred practices of the Native Hawaiian people--including the burial of sacred ancestors --and, of more... |
2020 |
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| Jessica Grannis |
COMMUNITY-DRIVEN CLIMATE SOLUTIONS: HOW PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH LAND TRUSTS CAN ADVANCE CLIMATE ACTION |
44 William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review 701 (Spring, 2020) |
In 2018 and 2019, several landmark developments demonstrated the failings of past efforts to address climate change and the need for new and more ambitious solutions. In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a dire report indicating that the window is rapidly closing for countries to dramatically reduce... |
2020 |
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| Justin R. Pidot |
COMPENSATORY MITIGATION AND PUBLIC LANDS |
61 Boston College Law Review 1045 (March, 2020) |
Introduction. 1046 I. Compensatory Mitigation in Context. 1055 A. Locating Mitigation as a Doctrine to Offset Harm. 1056 B. Developing Principles of Environmental Mitigation. 1058 C. Changing Tides of Compensatory Mitigation on Public Lands. 1062 II. Development of Public Land Law. 1069 A. Shifting Paradigms for Public Lands. 1069 B. Managing Under... |
2020 |
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| Sammy Matsaw , Dylan Hedden-Nicely , Barbara Cosens |
CULTURAL LINGUISTICS AND TREATY LANGUAGE: A MODERNIZED APPROACH TO INTERPRETING TREATY LANGUAGE TO CAPTURE THE TribE'S UNDERSTANDING |
50 Environmental Law 415 (Spring, 2020) |
Language is a reflection of a thought world. A worldview that has been shaped by place to describe one's identity in space and time does not equate to species relatedness as a default to know one another. In the legal system of the United States, there is acknowledgement of treaties in colonized lands that there are rights granted from the tribes... |
2020 |
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| Barry E. Hill |
ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS, PUBLIC TRUST, AND PUBLIC NUISANCE: ADDRESSING CLIMATE INJUSTICES THROUGH STATE CLIMATE LIABILITY LITIGATION |
50 Environmental Law Reporter (ELI) 11022 (December, 2020) |
This Article focuses on an area of rapidly evolving jurisprudence--climate liability litigation. It examines in depth the state attorney general's complaint filed in Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. in 2018, alleging various state-law tort claims. It explores the intensely sustained legal battles taking place between states and fossil fuel companies... |
2020 |
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| Rachael Jaffe |
EQUITY & ECOLOGY IN SOUTH AFRICAN WATER SYSTEMS |
23 University of Denver Water Law Review 147 (Spring, 2020) |
The South African Constitution promises food, water, and shelter to every South African--three essentials to human life. Yet, not everyone in South Africa has access to these imperative basics. South Africa's idealistic Constitution guarantees the right to sufficient food and water and access to adequate housing. However, despite this promise,... |
2020 |
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| Joshua Ozymy , Melissa L. Jarrell |
EXPLORING THE ROLE OF VICTIMS IN FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME PROSECUTIONS, 1983-2019 |
57 Willamette Law Review 25 (Fall, 2020) |
While individuals are victimized directly or as a consequence of environmental crimes in the United States, little is known about these victims or the role their victimization plays in federal environmental crime prosecutions. Through content analysis of 2,588 of the Environmental Protection Agency's criminal prosecution case summaries, 1983-2019,... |
2020 |
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| Dani L. Replogle |
FORECASTING CLIMATE CHAOS: NEPA'S ROLE IN COUNTERING FOSSIL FUEL EXTRACTION ON PUBLIC LANDS |
50 Environmental Law 523 (Spring, 2020) |
This Comment dissects an influential line of cases out of the Tenth Circuit in order to better understand how courts are holding federal agencies accountable for the climatic effects of fossil fuel extraction on public lands. While the judiciary is beginning to require that agencies quantify downstream emissions and consider the impacts of these... |
2020 |
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| Kenneth Stahl |
HOME RULE AND STATE PREEMPTION OF LOCAL LAND USE CONTROL |
50 Urban Lawyer 179 (2020) |
Though local governments have historically made most land-use decisions, the housing crisis now gripping many parts of the country has caused state legislatures in places like California, Oregon, Maryland, and Virginia to consider a more assertive role in regulating land use, preempting some local authority. The conflict between states and... |
2020 |
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| Nadiyah J. Humber |
IN WEST PHILADELPHIA BORN AND RAISED OR MOVING TO BEL-AIR? RACIAL STEERING AS A CONSEQUENCE OF USING RACE DATA ON REAL ESTATE WEBSITES |
17 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 133 (Winter, 2020) |
Current fair housing laws are not entirely equipped to deal with issues of housing discrimination on the internet, particularly the practice of racial steering, where a homebuyer is directed away from certain communities based on racial demographics. Courts interpret these kind of steering claims as requiring a showing of discriminatory intent, yet... |
2020 |
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| Kylie M. Allen |
IndigenOUS NUCLEAR INJURIES AND THE RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION ACT (RECA): REFRAMING COMPENSATION TOWARD IndigenOUS-LED ENVIRONMENTAL REPARATIONS |
10 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 264 (Spring, 2020) |
Indigenous Nations have borne a wide array of harms as a result of U.S. nuclear policy. The extraction and processing of nuclear materials and testing of nuclear weapons have caused extensive health problems for Indigenous Peoples. Given that most nuclear facilities are located on tribal and traditional lands, Indigenous Peoples have been... |
2020 |
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| Alyson C. Flournoy |
INTEGRATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: A PRESCRIPTION FOR LAW IN THE TIME OF CLIMATE CHANGE |
30 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 225 (Spring, 2020) |
As the magnitude of the threat posed by climate change has become increasingly apparent, scholars and practitioners have begun a dialogue about how to reform environmental law to meet the challenge. Concepts like adaptive management, sustainability, and resilience have emerged in succession, as policy makers and scholars search for new moorings for... |
2020 |
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| Dana Zartner, JD, LLM, Ph.D. |
JUSTICE FOR JURISTAC: USING INTERNationAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW TO PROTECT IndigenOUS LANDS |
18 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 175 (June 3, 2020) |
Battles between extractivist industries and indigenous peoples and environmentalists are raging around the world, as well as in our own backyard. At the southern end of the Santa Cruz Mountains in an area called Sargent Ranch, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band is currently fighting to prevent the creation of a sand and gravel mine on their sacred lands.... |
2020 |
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| Coty Montag |
LIEN IN: CHALLENGING MUNICIPALITIES' DISCRIMINATORY WATER PRACTICES UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
55 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 199 (Winter, 2020) |
Our nation's failing infrastructure and cities' financial woes have led to a dramatic rise in the cost of water across the United States. Many families are unable to pay these higher bills and face disproportionately harsh consequences as a result. While laws vary by jurisdiction, some municipalities place liens on homes for unpaid water debt. Once... |
2020 |
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| Michael T. Olexa , Lauren Hill , Travis M. Walker , Damian C. Adams |
LIMITATIONS TO STATEWIDE REACH OF LAND GRANT UNIVERSITIES - FLORIDA AS A CAUTIONARY TALE |
25 Drake Journal of Agricultural Law 323 (Fall, 2020) |
324 I. Introduction. 324 II. The Creation of the Land Grant College System. 327 A. Justin Morrill's Personal Struggles to Achieve Upper-Level Education. 328 B. The Morrill Act of 1862. 329 C. The Morrill Act of 1890. 333 D. Extending the Land Grant College Beyond the Four Walls of the School--The Hatch Smith-Lever Acts. 337 1. The... |
2020 |
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| Lily Grisafi |
LIVING IN THE BLAST ZONE: SEXUAL VIOLENCE PIPED ONTO NATIVE LAND BY EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES |
53 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 509 (Summer, 2020) |
Native American women around the country, and particularly those living near extractive industries, face an epidemic of sexual violence. The high rates of violence against Native women are due in large part to the lack of liability for those most responsible. Flaws in United States and tribal criminal justice systems create de facto jurisdictional... |
2020 |
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| Sarah Fox |
LOCALIZING ENVIRONMENTAL FEDERALISM |
54 U.C. Davis Law Review 133 (November, 2020) |
Local environmental initiatives have gained attention and importance in the face of inaction by the federal government and many states. In taking these initiatives, local governments are not only furthering environmental protections, but also fulfilling an important federalism function. Environmental federalism theory has long highlighted the... |
2020 |
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| Sarah Dávila-Ruhaak |
MAKING A CASE FOR THE RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES: A CASE OF COAL-ASH DISASTER IN PUERTO RICO |
9 Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law 379 (Spring, 2020) |
The connection between the environment and human rights is not a surprising one. The enjoyment of human rights depends on a person's ability to live free from interference and to have his or her rights protected. The interdependence of human rights and the protection of the environment is manifested in the full and effective enjoyment of the right... |
2020 |
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| Coty Montag |
MUNICIPAL POWER AND RACIAL INJUSTICE: SOLUTIONS FOR WATER DISCRIMINation |
34-SPG Natural Resources & Environment 16 (Spring, 2020) |
Albert Pickett, a Black man and lifelong resident of East Cleveland, Ohio, has lived without running water in his home for six years. Pickett v. City of Cleveland, No. 19-cv-2911, Complaint at 23 (N.D. Ohio Dec. 18, 2019), naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/Pickett-Filed-Complaint.pdf. His sole income is disability benefits. Pickett owns and lives in... |
2020 |
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| Martin A. McCrory , Anjanette H. Raymond |
NAVIGATING MURKY WATERS: THE RISE AND FALL OF CLEAN WATER PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES |
29 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 143 (Summer, 2020) |
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has past and the first of that which comes . According to water quality and monitoring violations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an estimated 63 million people in America were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade. These failures have... |
2020 |
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| Lily Grisafi |
PROSECUTING INTERNationAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME COMMITTED AGAINST IndigenOUS PEOPLES IN BRAZIL |
5 Columbia Human Rights Law Review Online 26 (November 10, 2020) |
This Article investigates current international environmental crimes perpetrated against the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon and details how and why these crimes must be investigated and prosecuted at the International Criminal Court (ICC). First, this Article illustrates the severity of the environmental crimes in the Brazilian Amazon,... |
2020 |
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| Henry Holmes |
PROTECTING WETLANDS: ENVIRONMENTAL FEDERALISM AND GRASSROOTS CONSERVATION IN THE PRAIRIE POTHOLE REGION |
10 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 365 (Summer, 2020) |
Wetlands provide a multitude of benefits including flood protection, clean water, carbon sequestration, and critical species habitat. Given that wetlands are valuable natural resources, it is important to better understand the extent to which federal regulation impacts optimal wetlands conservation. Where federal regulation under the 2015 Clean... |
2020 |
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| Jack Brooksbank |
PUBLIC HEALTH vs. PUBLIC HEALTH: BALANCING ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS WITH THE NEED FOR STERILE MEDICAL DEVICES |
21 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 441 (September 11, 2020) |
In December 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) upgraded the hazard level of a chemical called ethylene oxide (ETO) from a probable human carcinogen to a human carcinogen. Less than two years later, the EPA made public that it had found an elevated risk of cancer in the town of Willowbrook, Illinois. Willowbrook is a village on the... |
2020 |
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