| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Emily M. Thor |
THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER IN THE UNITED STATES: WHY SO DANGEROUS? |
26 Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal 315 (2013) |
I. Introduction. 315 II. The International Human Right to Water. 317 A. Recognition of this Right by the United Nations. 317 B. The Perspective of the United States. 319 C. Private Sector Involvement. 321 III. The Human Right to Water in the United States. 324 IV. The Human Right to Water in Africa. 329 A. Nigeria. 330 B. South Africa. 333 V. Is... |
2013 |
| Jessica Owley |
THE INCREASING PRIVATIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING |
46 Akron Law Review 1091 (2013) |
I. Introduction. 1091 II. The Rise of Compensatory Mitigation. 1092 A. Background. 1092 B. Examples. 1093 III. Privatization of Mitigation. 1101 A. Background. 1102 B. Examples. 1106 C. Benefits of Private Mitigation Programs. 1116 D. Concerns with Private Mitigation. 1118 IV. Conclusion: Harnessing Strengths while Minimizing Harms. 1127 |
2013 |
| Rhett B. Larson |
THE NEW RIGHT IN WATER |
70 Washington and Lee Law Review 2181 (Fall, 2013) |
This Article divides all rights into two broad categories-provision rights and participation rights. With a provision right, the government makes substantive guarantees to provide some minimum quantity and quality of a good or service. With a participation right, the government is legally proscribed from interfering with an individual citizen's... |
2013 |
| Stefaan Smis, Dorothée Cambou, Genny Ngende |
THE QUESTION OF LAND GRAB IN AFRICA AND THE IndigenOUS PEOPLES' RIGHT TO TRADITIONAL LANDS, TERRITORIES AND RESOURCES |
35 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review 493 (Summer 2013) |
On 13 September 2007, the UN General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). This event was not only a landmark for the indigenous peoples' movement but also constituted an important contribution to the universal human rights system. The declaration has indeed, after two decades of difficult negotiations,... |
2013 |
| Steve Herbert, Brandon Derman, Tiffany Grobelski |
THE REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SPACE |
9 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 227 (2013) |
environmental law, environmental justice, environmental regulation, scale, scope The need to regulate environmental problems is of ever-increasing urgency. Yet the complexity of environmental dynamics challenges any regulatory scheme. We use this essay to describe and assess some of these challenges. We deploy the terms scope and scale as analytic... |
2013 |
| Robert V. Percival , Zhao Huiyu |
THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA |
24 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 141 (Fall, 2013) |
In 1972 leaders of most of the nations of the world gathered in Stockholm for an historic first global summit on the environment, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. By a vote of 112-0, representatives of the nations assembled at that conference adopted a declaration emphasizing the importance of protecting the planet's... |
2013 |
| Thomas W. Merrill, David M. Schizer |
THE SHALE OIL AND GAS REVOLUTION, HYDRAULIC FRACTURING, AND WATER CONTAMINation: A REGULATORY STRATEGY |
98 Minnesota Law Review 145 (November, 2013) |
Introduction. 147 I. Hydraulic Fracturing: A Technological Leap in Drilling for Shale Oil and Gas. 152 II. Economic, National Security, and Environmental Benefits from Fracturing. 157 A. Economic Growth. 157 B. Energy Independence and National Security. 161 C. Environmental Benefits: Air Quality and Climate Change. 164 1. Cleaner Air from Using Gas... |
2013 |
| Szonja Ludvig |
THE TribES MUST REGULATE: JURISDICTIONAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND RELIGIOUS CONSIDERATIONS OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING ON TribAL LANDS |
2013 Brigham Young University Law Review 727 (2013) |
Tex Hall, the chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes, says that the federal government must be prohibited from regulating hydraulic fracturing. If this is not done, our oil and gas production on our reservation will cease. It's that simple. A Blackfeet woman prepares to show a documentary film on the environmental dangers of oil and gas drilling... |
2013 |
| Anietie Maureen-Ann Akpan |
TIERRA Y VIDA: HOW ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE HAS ADVERSELY IMPACTED THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF RURAL BROWN POPULATIONS IN SOUTH TEXAS |
43 Texas Environmental Law Journal 321 (Summer, 2013) |
I. Introduction. 321 II. The Development of Texas Colonias. 322 A. Poverty's Integral Role in Sustaining the Subordinate Collective Health of Colonia Residents. 323 B. How Natural Environment Also Creates Obstacles for South Texas Residents to Maintain Good Health. 324 III. The Texas Health & Safety Code--Examining an Existing Remedy Not... |
2013 |
| John W. Ragsdale, Jr. |
TO RETURN FROM WHERE WE STARTED: A REVISIONING OF PROPERTY, LAND USE, ECONOMY, AND REGULATION IN AMERICA |
45 Urban Lawyer 631 (Summer, 2013) |
The we in this article's title refers collectively to those of us with European origins and our ancestors who came to the North American Continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The continent was not uninhabited or a vacuum domicilium. There were millions of native inhabitants and they had been there for thousands of years before the... |
2013 |
| Douglas R. Williams |
TOWARD REGIONAL GOVERNANCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW |
46 Akron Law Review 1047 (2013) |
I. Cooperative Federalism, Institutional Design, and Problems of Over-Centralization and Decentralization: The Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. 1050 A. The Clean Air Act and the Paradox of State Authority. 1053 B. The Clean Water Act and the Growth of State Authority. 1064 C. Problems of Coordination, Disruption, and Resiliency Under the CAA and... |
2013 |
| Sara Imperiale, Wang Pian Pian |
WASTE INCINERATION, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES |
14 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 435 (Spring, 2013) |
Introduction. 436 I. The Waste Disposal Problem in China. 437 II. Defining Community Participation. 440 III. Participation through EIAs in China. 443 A. Relevant EIA Laws and Regulations. 443 B. Implementation Challenges. 445 C. Chinese Case Studies. 448 1. High Participation Capacity Community: Panyu, Guangzhou Province. 448 2. Low Participation... |
2013 |
| Aaron Culp |
WATER CAN BE FOR DRINKING AGAIN: ECONOMIC AND COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS TO A TEXAS WATER FIGHT |
45 Saint Mary's Law Journal 103 (2013) |
I. Introduction. 104 II. Legal Background. 107 A. The Texas Constitution and the Texas Water Code. 107 III. Economic Theories. 110 A. The Coase Theorem. 110 1. Transaction Costs. 112 2. Efficient Bargaining. 113 B. Water Markets. 115 C. Calabresi and Melamed's Cathedral Model. 120 1. Rule Four. 123 2. Spur Industries, Inc. v. Del E. Webb... |
2013 |
| Jason T. Gerken |
WHAT THE FRACK SHALE WE DO? A PROPOSED ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATORY SCHEME FOR HYDRAULIC FRACTURING |
41 Capital University Law Review 81 (Winter, 2013) |
Over lunch at a Colorado Oil and Gas Association conference in August 2011, Halliburton Company Chief Executive Officer Dave Lesar offered a glass of Halliburton's new hydraulic fracturing fluid to a colleague. The executive took a swig of CleanStim, a trial fluid that Halliburton's website cautions should not be considered edible. Oil and gas... |
2013 |
| Adam Babich, Jane F. Barrett |
WHY ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINICS? |
43 Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis 10039 (January, 2013) |
The law clinic has become an increasingly important part of legal education, giving students the opportunity to learn practical skills as well as to internalize core legal values. Pedagogical concerns preclude clinics from letting fear of criticism drive decisions about how they represent clients. The legal profession's idealistic aspirations pose... |
2013 |
| Gavin Kentch |
A CORPORATE CULTURE? THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CHALLENGES OF THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT |
81 Mississippi Law Journal 813 (2012) |
L1-2Introduction . R3813. I. Historical Background: ANCSA and the Creation of the Alaska Native Corporations. 814 II. Analysis. 819 A. Theory: An Imperfect Solution? Native Corporations and Procedural Justice. 819 1. Board of Directors Composition and Village Access to Decision Making. 820 2. Proxies and Afterborns. 822 3. Village Corporations vs.... |
2012 |
| M.W. Marinakos |
A MIGHTY WIND: THE TURBULENT TIMES OF AMERICA'S FIRST OFFSHORE WIND FARM AND THE INVERSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
2 Barry University Environmental and Earth Law Journal 82 (Summer, 2012) |
In 2001, Cape Wind Associates announced its proposal to construct America's first offshore wind farm in the federal waters of Nantucket Sound. This declaration touched off a storm of law suits, fund raising, and protests in the press that still rages to this day. Political pundits and environmental groups of every stripe have taken some surprising... |
2012 |
| Brittan J. Bush |
A NEW REGIONALIST PERSPECTIVE ON LAND USE AND THE ENVIRONMENT |
56 Howard Law Journal 207 (Fall 2012) |
INTRODUCTION. 208 I. LOCALISM AND REGIONALISM: THE NORMATIVE DEBATE. 212 A. Localism. 212 1. City Powerlessness. 213 2. The Case for Localism. 216 3. The Failure of Localism. 219 B. The Concept of Regionalism. 224 C. The Promise of New Regionalism. 226 II. LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. 230 A. Land Use Planning and Environmental... |
2012 |
| Yaser Khalaileh |
A RIGHT TO A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OPPORTUNITIES TO EMBRACE OR REJECT |
42 Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis 10280 (March, 2012) |
Following the Stockholm Declaration in 1972 emphasizing an essential need for a clean environment, a number of international proclamations were issued that contributed to international recognition of a substantive right to a clean environment as embodied 20 years later in the Rio Declaration. Since that time, there has been a movement for... |
2012 |
| Jessica Ball |
A STEP IN THE WRONG DIRECTION: INCREASING RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN RURAL LAND ACQUISITION IN BRAZIL |
35 Fordham International Law Journal 1743 (November, 2012) |
INTRODUCTION. 1744 I. THE RECENT RISE OF AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT AND BRAZIL'S POTENTIAL AS AN INDUSTRY LEADER. 1746 A. Different Structures of International Land Deals. 1750 B. International Actors. 1753 C. Investment Climate in Brazil. 1757 D. Investor Risk in Brazil. 1760 II. LAW 5.709 AND RECENT CHANGES IN THE FRAMEWORK GOVERNING FOREIGN... |
2012 |
| Kristen L. Holm-Hansen |
A STREAM WOULD RISE FROM THE EARTH, AND WATER THE WHOLE FACE OF THE GROUND: THE ETHICAL NECESSITY FOR WETLANDS PROTECTION POST-RAPANOS |
26 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 621 (2012) |
While elections are rarely won or lost on environmental issues, creating and voting on environmental policy is an important part of every modern legislative session. With the United States facing population growth, the effects of recent environmental disasters, and an ever-growing reliance on consumerism and and technology, environmentalism is an... |
2012 |
| James Concannon |
ACTIONABLE ACTS: "SEVERE" CONDUCT IN HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASES |
20 Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy 1 (2011-2012) |
This paper examines the significant weight that courts accord proof of especially severe conduct in hostile work environment sexual harassment cases. Such conduct is often found by courts to satisfy the severe or pervasive test established by the Supreme Court in Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., even if the plaintiff does not present proof... |
2012 |
| Jedediah Purdy |
AMERICAN NATURES: THE SHAPE OF CONFLICT IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW |
36 Harvard Environmental Law Review 169 (2012) |
There is a firestorm of political and cultural conflict around environmental issues, including, but running well beyond, climate change. Legal scholarship is in a bad position to make sense of this conflict because the field has concentrated on making sound policy recommendations to an idealized lawmaker, neglecting the deeply held and sharply... |
2012 |
| Zoë Prebble |
ANTI-SPRAWL INITIATIVES: HOW COMPLETE IS THE CONVERGENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL, DESEGREGATIONIST AND FAIR HOUSING INTERESTS? |
30 Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal 197 (2011-2012) |
Imagine spacious landscaped highways . giant roads, themselves great architecture, pass public service stations, no longer eyesores, expanded to include all kinds of service and comfort. They unite and separate--separate and unite the series of diversified units, the farm units, the factory units, the roadside markets, the garden schools, the... |
2012 |
| Ann C. McGinley , Ryan P. McGinley-Stempel |
BEYOND THE WATER COOLER: SPEECH AND THE WORKPLACE IN AN ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA |
30 Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal 75 (Fall 2012) |
In democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism it's your count that votes. -Mogens Jallberg Few would dispute the proposition that free speech and association play an important role in the operation of a healthy democracy. This is particularly true in the American context, where an elected republic of the people, by the people, for the... |
2012 |
| Catherine M.H. Keske, Ph.D. , Greta G. Lohman, M.S. |
BIOCHAR: AN EMERGING MARKET SOLUTION FOR LEGACY MINE RECLAMATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT |
6 Appalachian Natural Resources Law Journal 1 (2011-2012) |
In this article, the authors propose that mining companies consider investigating the economic and ecological feasibility of biochar. Biochar is essentially charcoal. Preliminary research shows linkages between biochar and improvements in vegetative cover (eg. grasses), which effectively reduces erosion, run-off, and sedimentation in rivers and... |
2012 |
| Antonius R. Hippolyte |
CALLS FOR NationAL INTERVENTION IN THE TOXIC WASTE TRADE WITH AFRICA: A CONTEMPORARY ISSUE IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE DEBATE |
58 Loyola Law Review 301 (Summer 2012) |
[T]he greatest environmental injustices are between the developed and the developing world. There is injustice internationally which those of us who believe in a fairer distribution of power, wealth and opportunity cannot and will not accept. Environmentalists argue that calls for environmental justice have grown recently, while economists... |
2012 |
| Duchess Harris, Craig Green, Keesha Gaskins |
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW AND THE VALLEY SWIM CLUB: "TROUBLE THE WATERS" IN THE AGE OF OBAMA |
3 William Mitchell Law Raza Journal 1 (Spring 2012) |
C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 2 II. EQUALITY THROUGH THE CONSTITUTION, THE COURTS AND CONGRESS 3 A. Overview 3 B. The Constitution 3 C. 42 U.S.C. § 1981 8 D. 42 U.S.C. § 2000a 10 III. LEGAL DISCRIMINATION - LIMITS OF THE LAWS 15 A. The First Amendment 15 B. Restrictive Covenants 17 IV. WADE IN THE WATER: NOT IN OUR POOL 21 V. ANALYSIS 26 A.... |
2012 |
| Professor Alice Kaswan |
CLIMATE CHANGE, THE CLEAN AIR ACT, AND INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION |
30 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 51 (2012) |
I. The Role of Co-pollutant Considerations in Climate Policy. 55 A. The Value of a Comprehensive Approach. 57 B. The Benefits of Integrating Co-pollutant Considerations into Climate Policy. 62 1. The Environmental Benefits of Integrating Co-pollutant Considerations. 62 a. Existing Air Pollution. 63 b. Do Climate Policies Reduce Co-pollutants?. 64... |
2012 |
| Cynthia Hawkins DeBose |
COLONIAL WHITE MATER PRIVILEGE: AN ABOVE-GROUND RAILROAD TO FREEDOM AND LAND RECLAMATION |
55 Howard Law Journal 455 (Winter 2012) |
INTRODUCTION. 457 I. Anti-Miscegenation Statutes. 459 II. Thesis--Colonial White Mater Privilege. 463 III. Colonial Maryland: A Mixing of the Races. 464 IV. The Tayles of the Whyte Matriarchs. 467 A. The Shorter Family. 467 B. The Hawkins Family. 468 V. Petitions for Freedom & Land Reclamation Cases: Testing the Theory in Maryland. 469 A. William &... |
2012 |