| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Sara Gerke |
A COMPREHENSIVE LABELING FRAMEWORK FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)/ MACHINE LEARNING (ML)-BASED MEDICAL DEVICES: FROM AI FACTS LABELS TO A FRONT-OF-PACKAGE AI LABELING SYSTEM--LESSONS LEARNED FROM FOOD LABELING |
74 Emory Law Journal 1297 (2025) |
Medical Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming healthcare. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already authorized the marketing of over one thousand AI/Machine Learning (ML)-based medical devices, and many more products are in the development pipeline. However, despite this fast development, the regulatory framework for... |
2025 |
| Margot J. Pollans |
ABUNDANCE AND OTHER FOOD FIXATIONS |
96 University of Colorado Law Review 209 (2025) |
Although most people in the United States no longer devote the majority of their time to food production, processing, and distribution, food remains a daily fixation. This Article explores three driving food fixations--abundance, thinness, and health--and situates each against an inverse fear--scarcity, fatness, and illness, respectively. Mapping... |
2025 |
| Kristina Bergman, R. Denisse Córdova Montes |
ADOPTING AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH IN THE U.S. TO COMBAT SIZEISM AND RELATED RACISM AND SEXISM IN HEALTHCARE, PUBLIC HEALTH EFFORTS, AND FOOD ADVERTISING POLICY |
21 Journal of Food Law & Policy 1 (Spring, 2025) |
Evidence of size stigma in U.S. food and health industries is overwhelming. Many policies affecting consumer and patient health and care look to patient Body Mass Index (BMI), a ratio of patient weight to height that anthropologists describe has roots in eugenics, scientific racism, and sexism, and that even the American Medical Association... |
2025 |
| Francesco Seatzu |
ADVOCATING FOR A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH TO THE GANGES WATER SHARING TREATY (GWST) |
28 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 1 (Spring, 2025) |
The Ganges is not just a river, it is a divine force that sustains life. The arsenic contamination crisis in Bangladesh has emerged as one of the most pressing public health emergencies of our time, as labeled by the World Health Organization (WHO). With nearly half of the country's tube wells tainted by arsenic, this crisis has resulted in... |
2025 |
| Mya Garcia |
AI USES HOW MUCH WATER? NAVIGATING REGULATION OF AI DATA CENTERS' WATER FOOTPRINT POST-WATERSHED LOPER BRIGHT DECISION |
57 Texas Tech Law Review 517 (Summer, 2025) |
This Comment examines how the growth of AI data centers and the lack of federal regulation is negatively affecting the environmental resources of the United States, focusing particularly on water resources. Water is a precious resource for all living things that must be managed well amidst climate change's exacerbation of water scarcity. Tech... |
2025 |
| Heather Whiteman Runs Him |
ARIZONA v. NAVAJO NATION: LEAVING A TRICKLE OF HOPE FOR WATER SECURITY ON THE NAVAJO RESERVATION |
53 Urban Lawyer 101 (January, 2025) |
During the 2023 term, the United States Supreme Court decided three major cases directly impacting Tribal Nations and their citizens. Two of these three cases were resolved in ways that eroded hope for protection of tribes' retained sovereignty or reliable access to critical resources. In these two decisions, the Court disregarded long-established... |
2025 |
| Dr. Ying Chen , Dr. Paul McDonough |
ASSESSING RUSSIA'S WEAPONIZATION OF FOOD AND ITS COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW: SAFEGUARDING THE RIGHT TO FOOD FOR UKRAINIAN CIVILIANS AND ENSURING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE WAR CRIME OF STARVATION |
43 Boston University International Law Journal 1 (Spring, 2025) |
Starvation of civilians as a military tactic has a long history, which continues today. Despite protections enacted by the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, as well as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, civilian access to food is still weaponized in armed conflicts. To date, no State has been sanctioned, and... |
2025 |
| Andrew R. Hilty |
CRYSTAL COURTS AND MUDDY WATERS: WETLAND REGULATION IN A POST-SACKETT WORLD |
102 Washington University Law Review 1617 (2025) |
In Sackett v. EPA, the Supreme Court held that the EPA lacks jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act to regulate wetlands, unless those wetlands share a continuous surface connection with an otherwise jurisdictional waterbody. In doing so, the Court struck down the EPA's definition of waters of the United States, revisited forty-five years of... |
2025 |
| Ying Chen , Benedict Sheehy |
DOES MANDATORY CORPORATE HUMAN RIGHTS DUE DILIGENCE OFFER A PATH TO RESOLVING GLOBAL FOOD INSECURITY CHALLENGES? |
40 American University International Law Review 981 (2025) |
Despite the 2015 implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 (the Zero Hunger Goal), food insecurity remains a persistent global problem. Well past the halfway point to 2030, the world is woefully off track to reach this goal. Current efforts to address global food insecurity... |
2025 |
| Markus C. Johnson , Rita L. Rahoi-Gilchrest |
DON'T TRUST THE PROCESS: THE VIABILITY OF EIGHTH AMENDMENT CLAIMS FOR ULTRA-PROCESSED FOOD OVERCONSUMPTION IN PRISONS |
108 Marquette Law Review 763 (Spring, 2025) |
With the largest prison population worldwide, American prisons serve more food than anywhere else. To cut costs, American prisons overwhelmingly (or even entirely) serve prisoners ultra-processed foods, which, if overconsumed, have detrimental and long-lasting health effects. Prisoners taking issue with the food being served to them rely on the... |
2025 |
| Michelle Lebed |
DYING TO COMPETE: HOW THE OPEN-WATER SWIMMING SAFETY ACT CAN PROTECT ATHLETES, HONOR FRAN CRIPPEN'S LEGACY, AND RESHAPE OPEN-WATER SWIMMING BEFORE THE 2028 OLYMPICS |
18 Drexel Law Review 313 (2025) |
Open-water swimming, though an Olympic event since 2008, has never been safe. In light of the Olympics returning to the United States for the first time in over three decades, USA Swimming has the opportunity to set a new global precedent: one where the safety of athletes takes priority over elite competition. This Note argues that current safety... |
2025 |
| Julia Abolafia |
EMERGING CONTAMINANTS REVEAL FLAWS IN THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT |
36 Colorado Environmental Law Journal 109 (Winter, 2025) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 110 I. Emerging Contaminants of Concern. 112 A. The Chemical Properties of Emerging Contaminants. 113 II. The Safe Drinking Water Act. 114 A. Summary of the Safe Drinking Water Act. 114 B. National Primary Drinking Water Regulations. 116 C. The Regulatory Process. 116 1. Contaminant Candidate List. 117 2.... |
2025 |
| Ian A. Lutz |
FEDERAL INDIAN LAW--ABANDONING THE WARD: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS NO AFFIRMATIVE DUTY TO SECURE WATER FOR NAVAJO NATION--ARIZONA v. NAVAJO NATION, 599 U.S. 555 (2023) |
58 Suffolk University Law Review 363 (2025) |
The federal government's reservation of land for an Indian tribe impliedly gives the tribe reserved rights to fully use all water sources on that land. Although the Supreme Court of the United States has occasionally clarified these rights to allow several Indian reservations to receive specific, quantified amounts of water, the Court has... |
2025 |
| Paul Stanton Kibel , L. Victoria Wang |
FIRST IN TIME SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL: TRIBAL INSTREAM RIGHTS UNDERCUT WATER TAKING CLAIMS |
13 American Indian Law Journal 1 (January, 2025) |
Courts have held that American Indian tribal fishery rights can give rise to tribal instream flow rights. They have also held that the curtailment of rights of diversion to protect fisheries under the Federal Endangered Species Act may give rise to potential takings claims under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. In its 2019... |
2025 |
| Andrew Parco |
FISHING IN TROUBLED WATERS: CHINESE VIOLATIONS OF FILIPINO FISHERS' RIGHT TO FOOD |
40 Connecticut Journal of International Law 208 (Summer, 2025) |
This Article explores the current maritime dispute between China and the Philippines through a human rights lens, focusing on the right to adequate food for small-scale Filipino fishers. Fishing in the Southeast Asia Sea holds a distinct place in Filipinos' culture, tradition, and economic wellbeing, but it is most important as a food source for... |
2025 |
| Sydney Shearouse |
FLOWING JUSTICE: QUANTIFYING WATER RIGHTS IN THE WAKE OF ARIZONA v. NAVAJO NATION--NAVIGATING THE LEGAL OASIS FOR NATIVE AMERICAN WATER SOVEREIGNTY |
11 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 433 (15-Feb-25) |
Climate change has spurred a meteoric rise in environmental disputes particularly in arid climates where water shortages have become increasingly commonplace. Water rights controversies rise to the fore of public discourse as awareness and acceptance of climate change--and its impact on scarce resources--have become a near universal norm. These... |
2025 |
| Dana Mchenry |
FOOD DISTRIBUTION WITHIN OREGON AND THE WIDER WORLD |
103 Oregon Law Review 551 (2025) |
Introduction. 551 I. History of Food Distribution. 554 II. The U.S. System. 559 III. Oregon. 567 IV. The Wider World. 571 V. The Food Justice Movement. 574 VI. The Goal. 577 |
2025 |
| Carter Wade |
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: FUNDING THE NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY PROVIDING TAX INCENTIVES TO FARMERS |
21 Journal of Food Law & Policy 130 (Spring, 2025) |
We have the technical knowledge to provide plenty of good food for every man, woman, and child in this country, but that despite our capacity to produce food we have often failed to distribute it as well as we should. - President Harry S. Truman This note will focus primarily on the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and propose a solution... |
2025 |
| Susan Burns, Monica Sanchez Garita, Viviana Cervieri, Jesus Urbina, Danilo Grigoli, Natiuska Traña, Jakub Gladkowski, Lukasz Chwalkowski, Ignacio Gillmore, Cristina Busquets |
FOOD, AGRICULTURE, AND CANNABIS |
59 The Year in Review (ABA) 21 (2025) |
This article reviews 2024 developments in (I) hemp regulations in the United States; (II) cannabis expansion in Uruguay; (III) cannabis expansion in Costa Rica; (IV) medical cannabis regulations in Poland; and (V) food labeling regulations in Chile. Authors: Susan Burns and Monica Sanchez Garita The U.S. Congress adopted the Agriculture Improvement... |
2025 |
| Brigham Daniels, Elisabeth Parker, Brian Steed |
GREAT SALT LAKE AND THE NEW WATER SECURITY |
58 U.C. Davis Law Review 2581 (June, 2025) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L32583 I. Great Salt Lake Crisis. 2589 A. Causes of Great Salt Lake's Decline. 2590 B. The Cost of Inaction. 2592 1. Public Health and Toxic Dust Storms. 2593 2. Economic Devastation. 2598 a. Lake-Dependent Industries. 2598 b. Snowpack-Dependent Industries and Impacts. 2600 c. Dust Pollution Economic... |
2025 |
| Eliza Faye Lafferty |
GROWING INDIGENOUS FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN THE USMCA |
65 Virginia Journal of International Law Online 1 (2025) |
Mexico is home to fifty-nine native corn varieties, which Indigenous Peoples have cultivated for thousands of years. Indigenous Peoples' control of their native corn production is an issue of food sovereignty and biodiversity--they should be empowered to use traditional methods that are culturally and environmentally appropriate. Genetically... |
2025 |
| Jake Hill |
IN THE WAKE OF SACKETT: UNPACKING THE SUPREME COURT'S LATEST DEFINITION OF "WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES" |
30 Drake Journal of Agricultural Law 281 (Summer, 2025) |
Abstract. 282 I. Introduction. 282 II. Wetlands: Nature's Hidden Gems. 284 A. What Exactly Is a Wetland?. 284 B. The Indispensable Values of Wetlands. 285 III. Turning the Tide for Clean Water. 287 A. Pre-Clean Water Act. 287 B. The Clean Water Act. 288 IV. Watershed Decisions on WOTUS. 290 A. United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes, Inc.. 290 B.... |
2025 |
| Sidney Paulina Williams |
INDIAN WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENTS AND THE ANIMAS-LA PLATA PROJECT: A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY OF DEPENDENCY |
86 Montana Law Review 471 (Summer, 2025) |
I. Introduction. 472 II. The Ute Indians: A History of Disturbances. 473 A. Mutable Relations and Policies of Encroachment. 474 B. Reservation Boundaries: Isolation, Incorporation, and Termination. 477 C. Tribal Integration: Conditional Terms of Dependency. 479 D. Tribal Capacity and Resource Management. 481 III. The Language of the Law:... |
2025 |
| Niv Ovadia, Elisa Rivas |
INDIGENOUS CHILDREN AND ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM |
40-FALL Natural Resources & Environment 28 (Fall, 2025) |
Across the United States, Indigenous children face a hidden but devastating threat: environmental racism. Often defined as the disproportionate exposure of marginalized communities to pollution and environmental hazards, environmental racism results from policies that neglect or actively harm these populations. From undrinkable water to toxic land,... |
2025 |
| Aisha Jehaludi |
LIKE OIL AND WATER: HOW THE GUYANA-VENEZUELA BORDER DISPUTE IMPACTS FOREIGN OIL INVESTORS |
33 University of Miami Business Law Review 441 (Spring, 2025) |
Guyana, a hidden gem located on the northern coast of South America, is an emergent nation primarily known as the land of many waters. However, in 2015, this hidden gem captured international attention when the country struck liquid gold: oil. The discovery put Guyana on the map as an attractive foreign investment opportunity, and over the last ten... |
2025 |
| Michaela Morris |
MANATEES IN HOT WATER: HOW THE FLORIDA MANATEE BECAME DEPENDENT ON POWER PLANT WARM WATER OUTFALLS |
31 Buffalo Environmental Law Journal 63 (2023-2025) |
Each winter in Florida, thousands of manatees gather in the warm water outflows of power plants. These refuges play a crucial role for the Florida manatee: when ocean temperatures drop, manatees shelter at these artificial sources to survive. But in recent years, thousands of manatees wintering at the Florida Power & Light Company's Cape Canaveral... |
2025 |
| Rajpreet K. Grewal , Melissa K. Scanlan |
NAVIGATING ROUGH WATERS AFTER SACKETT v. EPA: FEDERAL, TRIBAL, AND STATE STRATEGIES |
50 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 61 (2025) |
The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law regulating impacts to water resources and water quality in the United States. Congress asserted the focus of the Act in the first section: to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters. Federal jurisdiction to implement this focus for many of the Act's... |
2025 |
| Reece Treasure |
NAVIGATING UNCHARTERED WATERS TO PRESERVE WORKPLACE DIVERSITY: MISCONCEPTIONS FROM OPPONENTS OF DEI NECESSITATING REVIEW OF LAWS GOVERNING PRIVATE EMPLOYERS |
94 UMKC Law Review 231 (Fall, 2025) |
Following the significant Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard, which sent ripples throughout the educational landscape, a fresh wave of legal considerations now casts a shadow over private employers across America. The SFFA decision, in which the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action policies in college... |
2025 |
| Maria Cudowska |
NEGOTIATING FOOD SECURITY |
21 Journal of Food Law & Policy 56 (Spring, 2025) |
In the United States and worldwide, nutrition and food emerge as both high-profile public policy targets and as fundamental aspects of the right to self-determination. This Article examines how national security impacts food security in the United States. It explores conflicts and synergies between municipal, state, and federal law developments... |
2025 |
| Katharina Ó Cathaoir , Margherita Melillo , Roger S. Magnusson |
NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR GLOBAL REGULATION OF TOBACCO, UNHEALTHY FOOD, AND ALCOHOL |
53 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 30 (Spring, 2025) |
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) represent a significant global health challenge, requiring distinct prevention and control strategies. Public health efforts have concentrated on regulating three primary risk factors: tobacco and nicotine products, unhealthy foods and beverages, and alcohol. While the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework... |
2025 |
| Michelle Diffenderfer, Christopher Johns |
PROTECTING TRIBAL INTERESTS IN WATER |
39-WTR Natural Resources & Environment 18 (Winter, 2025) |
On May 2, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its final rule titled Water Quality Standards Regulatory Revisions to Protect Tribal Reserved Rights. 89 Fed. Reg. 35,717 (May 2, 2024) (Final Rule). The Final Rule aims to provide a regulatory framework for states and tribes to use when establishing or revising water quality... |
2025 |
| Jessica Faucher |
PROTECTION OR INDIFFERENCE: WHY THE ARIZONA v. NAVAJO NATION DECISION DOESN'T HOLD WATER |
54 Stetson Law Review 501 (Spring, 2025) |
In Arizona v. Navajo Nation, a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court held under the Navajo Nation's 1868 Treaty with the United States that the United States has no affirmative duty to secure water for the Tribe. In doing so, the majority inflated the Navajo's request for relief, analyzed the Tribe's claim under the wrong legal framework, and reached... |
2025 |
| Alex Woodward, Esq. |
QUIETING THE CACOPHONY: HOW TO REDUCE GREENWASHING AND ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE FROM THE FOOD INDUSTRY |
17 Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, and Natural Resources 41 Law(2024-2025) |
To support a global population of over 8 billion as of 2025, agriculture on a mass-produced scale is necessary. Unfortunately, that scale, along with the for-profit nature of the American food industry, brings with it many environmental externalities. Pesticides are used as an inexpensive way to ensure the maximum yield for crops while protecting... |
2025 |
| Shelby White |
REDUCING POLLUTION FROM CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS BY ENFORCING NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE CLEAN WATER ACT |
36 Colorado Environmental Law Journal 167 (Winter, 2025) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 168 I. The History and Goals of the Clean Water Act. 171 A. How the Clean Water Act Came to Be. 171 B. CAFO Regulation Under the CWA. 172 C. Purpose Statement. 175 II. Lack of Permit Enforcement for CAFOs is Detrimental to Human Health and the Environment. 176 A. Surface Water Pollution from CAFOs is Harming Our... |
2025 |
| Fredrick Ole Ikayo |
RE-INDIGENIZING FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN THE NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA |
26 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 278 (Summer, 2025) |
INTRODUCTION. 279 I. THE MAASAI PEOPLE AND TANZANIA'S SIGNIFICANT NATURAL AREAS. 281 II. FORTRESS CONSERVATION AND ITS DEFICIENCIES. 288 III. THE MAASAI PEOPLES' RIGHT TO FOOD SOVEREIGNTY. 290 A. The Essential Nature of Food Sovereignty. 290 B. Contemporary Issues that Threaten and Impede Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Ngorongoro Conservation... |
2025 |
| Drew Woodward, Jordan Cruz |
SETTLEMENTS, COMPACTS, COMMISSIONS, AND MORE: NONLITIGATION ALTERNATIVES TO RESOLVING FEDERALLY RESERVED WATER RIGHTS |
28 University of Denver Water Law Review 224 (Fall, 2025) |
The closing panel of the 2025 Symposium emphasized that litigation is only one of the many solutions needed to provide equitable water solutions to tribal nations. A history of inequitable access through litigation of water rights was demonstrated through multiple examples from tribal communities. Alternatively, settlements were highlighted as a... |
2025 |
| Claire Lingley |
SHIFTING CURRENTS: THE NEXUS BETWEEN MAJOR PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, WATER, AND INDIGENOUS ENGAGEMENT |
56 ABA Trends 4 (July/August, 2025) |
Canada's regulatory framework for major projects is both divided and overlapping: municipalities govern stormwater, zoning, and infrastructure; the federal government has jurisdiction over fish and fish habitats, oceans and boundary waters, and transboundary impacts; and provinces, where most water-related regulation occurs, has the primary... |
2025 |
| Tyler Mebane |
STANDING IN THE WRONG LINE: NAVAJO NATION WATER RIGHTS AFTER ARIZONA v. NAVAJO NATION |
57 Arizona State Law Journal 353 (Spring, 2025) |
Close to a thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Navajo Nation arrived in what would become the American Southwest. They settled in the Colorado River basin, using the river's water to support agriculture and establish a homeland for themselves in the region. Pushed out by the encroachment of the United States as it expanded West, the Navajo... |
2025 |
| Sadie C. Pate |
STOLEN STREAMS: TRIBAL WATER RIGHTS AND JUDICIAL TAKINGS |
49 Harvard Environmental Law Review 655 (2025) |
Tribal water rights are fundamental to tribal existence and self-determination. Yet, despite treaty protection and federal recognition of these rights for over a century, tribal communities still struggle to realize their water rights. Forced to litigate in state courts under the McCarran Amendment, tribes frequently see those rights systematically... |
2025 |
| Associate Professor Ying Chen , Professor Ludivine Petetin |
TAKING A RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH TO MEAT SUBSIDIES TO ADDRESS THE DUAL CHALLENGES OF FOOD INSECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE US, EU, AND UK AGRI-FOOD POLICIES |
42 Wisconsin International Law Journal 239 (Spring, 2025) |
Meat production has devastating environmental impacts. It contributes to not only greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, but also natural resources depletion, biodiversity loss, water pollution, and other environmental problems, which together pose a serious threat to agricultural sustainability and food security. Despite these negative... |
2025 |
| Tammi S. Etheridge |
THE BIG COST OF SMALL FARMS |
77 Florida Law Review 465 (March, 2025) |
Americans love meat. We celebrate our independence with steaks on the grill, we enjoy our favorite pastime with hot dogs, and we give thanks with turkey. Our love of meat is so ingrained in our culture that, historically, small increases in meat prices have driven the populace to riot. Today, meat prices are rising. Simultaneously, the largest meat... |
2025 |
| Jack H.L. Whiteley |
THE CLEAN WATER ACT AND AVOIDANCE CREEP |
109 Minnesota Law Review 3053 (June, 2025) |
In Sackett v. EPA, the Supreme Court set out a test for the Clean Water Act's jurisdiction over wetlands. The Act, the Court held, protects only those wetlands that have a continuous surface connection to relatively permanent bodies of water like streams, rivers, and lakes. If the connection lies below the surface, or is at the surface but... |
2025 |
| James Salzman , Ana Mackay Peltzer |
THE CLEANEST WATER AND THE DUMBEST KIDS: DO SMALL WATER SYSTEMS COMPLY WITH THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT? |
44 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 276 (2025) |
Drinking water is one of the few essential requirements for life. Throughout history, human settlements have been built with ready access to sources of safe drinking water. Without water to drink, no population can long remain in place, and it has always been so. The basic tasks of providing safe water have also remained the same over time - the... |
2025 |
| Sarah E. Mische |
THE COST OF PFAS CLEANUP IN WATERWAYS: WHO PAYS AND HOW? |
96 University of Colorado Law Review 905 (2025) |
It is now widely known that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pose serious environmental and health risks. A particular aspect of PFAS contamination occurs in water, including drinking water, groundwater, drainage and runoff water, and sewage and wastewater. Since the early 2000s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken... |
2025 |
| Dr. Taino J. Palermo |
THE EROSION OF TRUST: ARIZONA v. NAVAJO, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THE POTENTIAL ABROGATION OF TRIBAL WATER RIGHTS |
30 Roger Williams University Law Review 47 (Winter, 2025) |
The Supreme Court's ruling in Arizona v. Navajo Nation represents a pivotal moment in the ongoing struggle for tribal water rights in the United States. This decision not only impacts the Navajo Nation, but also sets a significant judicial precedent with far-reaching implications for the future of treaty-protected water rights. The Court's ruling... |
2025 |
| D'Andra Millsap Shu |
THE FOOD ALLERGY GENERATION GOES TO WORK |
66 Boston College Law Review 857 (March, 2025) |
Introduction. 858 I. Food Allergies Are a Significant Medical and Societal Issue. 864 A. Medical and Management Basics. 865 B. Prevalence Among Children and Adults. 868 C. Negative Attitudes About Food Allergies. 869 II. Food Allergy as a Disability. 872 A. Prior Work on Food Allergy as a Disability. 872 B. New Case Law on Food Allergy as a... |
2025 |
| Camesha Little |
THE HUNGER GAMES: FOOD AS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE |
20 FIU Law Review 526 (Fall, 2025) |
The dystopian landscape of popular novels like The Hunger Games and Parable of the Sower vividly portray societies crippled by poverty, oppression, and pervasive starvation. Although fictional stories, the depiction of food insecurity resonates with a sobering global reality. Despite the United Nations' explicit declaration that all humans have a... |
2025 |
| Maria Gedris |
THE PFAS PROBLEM: HOW WETLAND REGULATIONS CAN PROTECT MICHIGAN'S DRINKING WATER FROM CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS |
70 Wayne Law Review 889 (Winter, 2025) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 890 II. BACKGROUND. 892 A. The Clean Water Act. 892 B. History of Federal Wetland Protection Law. 894 1. United States v. Riverside Bayview Homes, Inc. 894 2. Rapanos v. United States. 895 3. Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund. 898 4. Sackett v. EPA. 899 C. The Deterioration of Chevron Deference Following the Sackett Ruling. 901 D.... |
2025 |
| Rhett B. Larson |
THE PRIVATE SECTOR'S ROLE IN ARIZONA'S WATER FUTURE |
44 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 243 (2025) |
Professor Buzz Thompson's book Liquid Asset explores the critical partnership between the public and private sectors in water management. Water management has taken center stage in Arizona, where Colorado River shortages, groundwater depletion, and persistent water rights litigation has placed national media attention on the state. The principles... |
2025 |
| Adam Bixby |
THE SILVER LINING SOLUTION: ALLEVIATING WATER INSECURITY IN THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN THROUGH CLOUD SEEDING |
34-SPG Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 189 (Spring, 2025) |
Since ancient times, civilizations have relied on favorable weather conditions for their survival and development. Human history is spattered with a wide array of elaborate ceremonies dedicated to summoning the rain that sustains human civilizations. These ceremonies demonstrate a common goal to reach the very heavens themselves to harness its... |
2025 |