| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| David Takacs |
SOUTH AFRICA AND THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER: EQUITY, ECOLOGY, AND THE PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE |
34 Berkeley Journal of International Law 55 (Fall, 2016) |
After liberation from apartheid in 1996, South Africa's new, progressive Constitution proclaimed: Everyone has the right to have access to sufficient food and water. In this paper, I analyze South Africa's revolutionary legal vision for marrying social equity to ecology in fulfilling the right to water. South Africa's successes and obstacles as a... |
2016 |
| Jada Fehn |
SWAMPED: HOW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CAN IMPROVE HEALTH BY BALANCING EXPOSURE TO FAT, SUGAR, AND SALT-LADEN FRINGE FOODS |
24 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 565 (2016) |
I. Desert to Swamp. 566 II. Details of the Imbalance. 567 A. Poor Access. 567 B. On the Ground. 571 1. Baltimore. 571 2. Chicago. 571 3. Detroit. 573 4. Los Angeles. 573 III. Why?. 574 A. Product Manipulation. 574 B. Advertising. 575 C. Exodus to the Suburbs. 576 IV. The Link Between Food Imbalance and Health Inequity. 577 V. Public Health... |
2016 |
| Samit D'Cunha |
THE FIRST PLAGUE: THE DENIAL OF WATER AS A FORCIBLE TRANSFER UNDER INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW |
24 Michigan State International Law Review 279 (2016) |
Introduction. 279 I. Determination of the Applicable Law in the West Bank. 282 II. The Scope of Deportation & Forcible Transfers Under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. 287 III. Water Regulation in the West Bank. 292 A. Appropriation of Water Resources in the Aftermath of the Six Day War. 293 B. Water Regulation Under the Oslo Accords and... |
2016 |
| Deborah N. Archer , Tamara C. Belinfanti |
WE BUILT IT AND THEY DID NOT COME: USING NEW GOVERNANCE THEORY IN THE FIGHT FOR FOOD JUSTICE IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES OF COLOR |
15 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 307 (Fall, 2016) |
Meet Anthony. Anthony is eighteen years old and lives with his mother, Mary, in Anacostia, a residential neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. There are no supermarkets in his neighborhood--the closest grocery store is 20 minutes away by bus. One or two corner stores in the neighborhood sell milk, cereal, and other packaged foods. Mary shops... |
2016 |
| Andrea Freeman |
"FIRST FOOD" JUSTICE: RACIAL DISPARITIES IN INFANT FEEDING AS FOOD OPPRESSION |
83 Fordham Law Review 3053 (May, 2015) |
Tabitha Walrond gave birth to Tyler Isaac Walrond on June 27, 1997, when Tabitha, a black woman from the Bronx, was nineteen years old. Four months before the birth, Tabitha, who received New York public assistance, attempted to enroll Tyler in her health insurance plan (HIP), but encountered a mountain of bureaucratic red tape and errors. After... |
2015 |
| Liza Guerra Garcia |
"FREE THE LAND" : A CALL FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE-INDUCED FOOD INSECURITY IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES |
41 William Mitchell Law Review 572 (2015) |
I. Introduction. 573 II. Climate Change. 574 A. The Science of Climate Change. 576 B. Impacts and Projections. 577 C. Minnesota's Changing Climate. 580 III. Overview of Environmental Justice. 582 IV. Environmental Justice and Food Security. 585 A. The Nexus of Environmental Justice, Vulnerability, and Food Insecurity. 585 B. Urban Indigenous... |
2015 |
| Aeyal Gross , Tamar Feldman |
"WE DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR THE WORD 'CALORIES"D': RETHINKING FOOD SECURITY, FOOD POWER, AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY--LESSONS FROM THE GAZA CLOSURE |
33 Berkeley Journal of International Law 379 (2015) |
Everybody is hungry, nobody is starving. Chirster Nordhal In the summer of 2007 Israel imposed a yet-to-be lifted closure on the Gaza Strip, restricting the movement of goods and people into and out of Gaza. Israel holds its closure policy to be legal under international law so long as it meets the humanitarian minimum standard and allows the... |
2015 |
| Michelle Nowlin , Emily Spiegel , Graham McHenry |
(M)EAT LOCAL® : MARKET AND DISTRIBUTION CHALLENGES IN THE LOCAL MEAT SYSTEM |
25 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 339 (Spring 2015) |
I. Introduction. 340 II. The Livestock Industry: At a Glance. 342 A. Historic and Recent Trends. 342 B. What Is Local Meat?. 347 C. Regulatory Considerations. 351 1. Federally Inspected Facilities. 353 2. State Inspected Facilities. 354 3. Talmadge-Aiken Facilities. 355 4. Custom Exempt Facilities. 355 5. The Cooperative Interstate Shipment... |
2015 |
| Laura Fisher |
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW -- ALL (FOOD) POLITICS IS LOCAL: COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM, NEW ENGLAND SMALL FARMS, AND THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT |
37 Western New England Law Review 337 (2015) |
The family farm: it is way up there next to God and country, close to baseball and motherhood. . . . Family farming belongs to our secular theology. Successive iterations of federal farm policy designed to maximize production have driven the romanticized Jeffersonian idea of the family farmer to the brink of extinction. Gary Gemme and Davey... |
2015 |
| Mallory Irwinsky |
COALBED METHANE DEVELOPMENT IN WYOMING AND MONTANA: THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF MONTANA V. WYOMING, COALBED METHANE DEVELOPMENT, AND WATER QUALITY ON THE TRIBES OF THE POWDER RIVER AND WIND RIVER BASINS |
39 American Indian Law Review 553 (2014-2015) |
For the past few decades, the production of coalbed methane (CBM) across the United States has grown as the demand for fuel has increased across the nation, coupled with a desire for cleaner-burning energy sources. CBM, a form of natural gas, is not only cheaper to produce than conventional natural gas, but it is touted as a clean energy... |
2015 |
| Benjamin Mason Meier , Yuna Kim |
HUMAN RIGHTS ACCOUNTABILITY THROUGH TREATY BODIES: EXAMINING HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY MONITORING FOR WATER AND SANITATION |
26 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 141 (Fall 2015) |
Framing scholarship on human rights accountability through treaty bodies, this article examines the water and sanitation content of state human rights reporting to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In this novel application of analytic coding methods to state human rights reports, the authors trace the... |
2015 |
| Tanya Kapoor |
IS SUCCESSFUL WATER PRIVATIZATION A PIPE DREAM?: AN ANALYSIS OF THREE GLOBAL CASE STUDIES |
40 Yale Journal of International Law 157 (Winter 2015) |
Introduction. 158 I. Methodology. 161 A. Class Dynamics. 161 B. Business and Deal Structure. 162 C. Political Climate. 163 II. Cochabamba, Bolivia. 163 A. Background. 163 B. The Cochabamba Privatization. 164 C. The Model Applied. 167 III. KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 171 A. Background. 171 B. The KwaZulu-Natal Privatization. 172 C. The Model... |
2015 |
| Andrea Freeman |
THE 2014 FARM BILL: FARM SUBSIDIES AND FOOD OPPRESSION |
38 Seattle University Law Review 1271 (Summer, 2015) |
The 2014 Farm Bill ushered in some significant and surprising changes. One of these was that it rendered the identity of all the recipients of farm subsidies secret. Representative Larry Combest, who is now a lobbyist for agribusiness, first introduced a secrecy provision into the bill in 2000. The provision, however, only applied to subsidies made... |
2015 |
| Calvin R. Edwards Jr. |
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BUN: HOW CHICAGO CAN COMBAT FOOD DESERTS AND OBESITY THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH POLICES AND THE LAW |
9 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 136 (Winter 2015) |
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Michelle lives in a small three-bedroom bungalow located deep in the south side of Chicago. Michelle, her husband Darius, and her two children share the home with her... |
2015 |
| Andrea Freeman |
TRANSPARENCY FOR FOOD CONSUMERS: NUTRITION LABELING AND FOOD OPPRESSION |
41 American Journal of Law & Medicine 315 (2015) |
Transparency for consumers through nutrition labeling should be the last, not the first, step in a transformative food policy that would reduce dramatic health disparities and raise the United States to the health standards of other nations with similar resources. Nonetheless, transparency in the food system is a key focal point of efforts to... |
2015 |
| Robert H. Abrams |
WATER LAW TRANSITIONS |
66 South Carolina Law Review 597 (Spring, 2015) |
I. The Limitations of Reasonable Use Riparianism and the Need for Change. 600 II. A Cameo Description of the Typical Regulated Riparianism System. 607 III. Looking at South Carolina's Act 247 of 2010: A Critique of Unusual Provisions in the South Carolina Statute. 611 A. The Law and its Principal Standard. 611 IV. Transition from Common Law... |
2015 |
| Carmen G. Gonzalez |
WORLD POVERTY AND FOOD INSECURITY |
3 Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs 56 (February, 2015) |
Our present global economic order produces a stable pattern of widespread malnutrition and starvation among the poor, with some eighteen million persons dying each year from povertyrelated causes, and there are likely to be feasible alternative regimes that will not produce similarly severe deprivations. If this is so, the victims of avoidable... |
2015 |
| Daniel K. Lee |
A CENTURY OF UNCERTAINTY AND THE NEW POLITICS OF INDIAN WATER SETTLEMENTS: HOW TRIBES AND STATES CAN OVERCOME THE CHILLING EFFECT OF THE PAYGO ACT |
92 Oregon Law Review 625 (2014) |
Introduction. 626 I. The Legal Background of Indian Water Rights Settlements. 627 A. The Law of Indian Reserved Water Rights. 628 B. The Trust Duty in Relation to Water Rights. 635 II. The Multilateral Benefits of Indian Water Rights Settlements. 637 III. Indian Water Settlements in the Era of PAYGO. 640 A. Requirements of the PAYGO Act. 640 B. One... |
2014 |
| Jesse Reiblich , Christine A. Klein |
CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER TRANSFERS |
41 Pepperdine Law Review 439 (March, 2014) |
Climate change adaptation is all about water. Although some governments have begun to plan for severe water disruptions, many have not. The consequences of inaction, however, may be dire. As a report of the U.N. Environment Programme warns, countries that adopt a wait and see approach potentially risk the lives of their people, their ecosystems... |
2014 |
| Oliver A. Houck |
COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM, NUTRIENTS, AND THE CLEAN WATER ACT: THREE CASES REVISITED |
44 Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis 10426 (May, 2014) |
Cooperative federalism varies widely from program to program, and depends on the relationship each statute prescribes. The Clean Water Act (CWA), while providing ample room for state participation, is heavily federal and leaves little about this relationship to chance. Nonetheless, the federal-state interplay goes on in as many venues as there are... |
2014 |
| Danielle M. Purifoy |
FOOD POLICY COUNCILS: INTEGRATING FOOD JUSTICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
24 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 375 (Spring, 2014) |
Beginning in 1982, food policy councils (FPCs) proliferated across North America as forums for democratic discourse and advocacy to develop sustainable food systems at the local, state, and regional levels. Challenging the industrialization of food production and distribution by corporate agribusiness, FPCs reflect the desire in many communities to... |
2014 |
| Amy Cordalis , Daniel Cordalis |
INDIAN WATER RIGHTS: HOW ARIZONA v. CALIFORNIA LEFT AN UNWANTED CLOUD OVER THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN |
5 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 333 (Fall, 2014) |
The Colorado River is one of the most important rivers in the world. The river's 1,400-mile journey from the Rocky Mountains to the Sea of Cortez takes on waters from seven states and from the reservations of twenty-eight Indian tribes along the way, 244,000 square miles of river basin in all. The Colorado River is also heavily managed: Its waters... |
2014 |
| Timothy D. Lytton , Lesley K. McAllister |
OVERSIGHT IN PRIVATE FOOD SAFETY AUDITING: ADDRESSING AUDITOR CONFLICT OF INTEREST |
2014 Wisconsin Law Review 289 (2014) |
Private auditing is a significant component of food safety regulation. Typically, manufacturers, retail sellers, and food-service operators require their suppliers to obtain food safety certification from a private third-party auditor paid by the supplier. Auditors' financial interest in acquiring accounts from suppliers who want the cheapest... |
2014 |
| Sara Gonzalez-Rothi Kronenthal |
THE RIPPLE EFFECT: HOW A LAWSUIT SEEKING CLEANER WATER MAY BE BACKFIRING |
3 LSU Journal of Energy Law & Resources 1 (Fall, 2014) |
Success in litigation requires more than a favorable order. For parties to achieve a desired outcome, forces outside the courtroom must not interfere with the legal victory. In 2009, conservation groups succeeded in negotiating a settlement that, on its face, seemed to promise cleaner water in Florida. However, a ripple of social and political... |
2014 |
| Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold , Olivia Odom Green , Daniel DeCaro , Alexandra Chase , Jennifer-Grace Ewa |
THE SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE OF AN EASTERN URBAN-SUBURBAN WATERSHED: THE ANACOSTIA RIVER BASIN |
51 Idaho Law Review 29 (2014) |
C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION. 30 II. INSTITUTIONAL-SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE ANACOSTIA RIVER WATERSHED. 36 A. The Watershed and Its Characteristics. 36 B. Transitions Across Thresholds: The History of Systemic Change in the Watershed. 40 1. Drivers of Change. 40 2. Transformations of the Watershed. 45 III. ASSESSING RESILIENCE. 69 A.... |
2014 |
| Amy Hardberger |
WATER IS A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND: EXAMINING THE WATER VALUATION DILEMMA |
62 University of Kansas Law Review 893 (May, 2014) |
When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. . . . . Only what is rare is valuable, and water, which is the best of all things . . . is also the cheapest. These two quotes personify the current challenge facing water sustainability and the role of markets. Reflected in these words is a traditional economic model of supply and demand and... |
2014 |
| Cameryn Rivera |
A FRESHER LAW: AMENDING THE FLORIDA RIGHT TO FARM ACT TO INCLUDE URBAN MICRO FARMING AS A KEY INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY, FOOD ACCESS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES |
8 Florida A & M University Law Review 385 (Spring, 2013) |
Introduction. 386 I. The History and Evolution of Urban Micro Farming: From Victory Gardens to Big City Farms. 388 II. Food Policy Concerns in Florida. 395 A. Tallahassee: Maintaining Sustainable Principles. 396 B. Jacksonville: The Necessity of Food Security. 397 C. Orlando: The Negative Impacts of Food Injustice. 401 III. The Florida Right To... |
2013 |
| Michelle Bryan Mudd |
A NEXT, BIG STEP FOR THE WEST: USING MODEL LEGISLATION TO CREATE A WATER-CLIMATE ELEMENT IN LOCAL COMPREHENSIVE PLANS |
3 Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 1 (June, 2013) |
Since it touches all we do and experience, water creates a language through which we may discuss our common future. The West is witnessing early, important efforts to join water supply and land use planning, and the reality of climate change makes this convergence all the more critical. Local comprehensive planning presents itself as an... |
2013 |
| Scott McKenzie |
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: THE FUTURE OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER TREATY, WATER RIGHTS, DEVELOPMENT, AND CLIMATE CHANGE |
29 Georgia State University Law Review 921 (Summer, 2013) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3922 I. Physical And Political History Of The Columbia River Basin And Treaty. 923 A. Early History Of The River And Basin. 924 B. The Columbia River Treaty: Creation, Management, And Impacts. 928 II. Governance Issues: Theoretical And Practical. 932 A. Western Water Law And Development. 933 B. Competing... |
2013 |
| Emily M. Broad Leib |
ALL (FOOD) POLITICS IS LOCAL: INCREASING FOOD ACCESS THROUGH LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACTION |
7 Harvard Law & Policy Review 321 (Summer 2013) |
Our national and international food system has implications for a wide range of issues that are important across the political spectrum and include improving health outcomes, reducing environmental impacts, increasing social justice, fostering economic development, and even improving homeland security. This article focuses on healthy-food access,... |
2013 |
| Rebecca L. Goldberg |
NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH: PATERNALISM, POVERTY, AND FOOD JUSTICE |
24 Stanford Law and Policy Review 35 (2013) |
Two recent, controversial policy initiatives have revealed conflicts among three groups that take an interest in the eating habits of the poor: anti-hunger advocates, anti-obesity advocates, and food justice advocates. These initiatives--Los Angeles's zoning ordinance banning new fast food restaurants in one low-income neighborhood and New York... |
2013 |
| Eve Kerber |
SECURING FOOD JUSTICE, SOVEREIGNTY & SUSTAINABILITY IN THE FACE OF THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT (FSMA) |
11 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 1271 (Spring, 2013) |
The laws we write, the goals we pursue, and the choices we make determine the health of the food system we create. Food sovereignty and sustainability are not ideas that legislation enacts for us--they are ideas we must demand through processes that consider the public's opinions. This article suggests that the public should utilize the... |
2013 |
| Emily Broad Leib |
THE FORGOTTEN HALF OF FOOD SYSTEM REFORM: USING FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL LAW TO FOSTER HEALTHY FOOD PRODUCTION |
9 Journal of Food Law & Policy 17 (Spring 2013) |
I. Introduction. 18 II. Background: The Food System and the Obesity Crisis. 20 III. Two Main Responses. 25 A . Option 1: Reforming the Industrial System. 26 B . Option 2: Improving Viability of the Alternative Food System. 31 1. Demand for Healthy Food is Increasing, yet too little of Our current production focuses on specialty crops. 34 2.... |
2013 |
| Smita Narula |
THE GLOBAL LAND RUSH: MARKETS, RIGHTS, AND THE POLITICS OF FOOD |
49 Stanford Journal of International Law 101 (Winter 2013) |
In the past five years, interest in purchasing and leasing agricultural land in developing countries has skyrocketed. This trend, which was facilitated by the 2008 food crisis, is led by state and private investors, both domestic and foreign. Investors are responding to a variety of global forces: Some are securing their own food supply, while... |
2013 |
| Lori Beail-Farkas |
THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER AND SANITATION: CONTEXT, CONTOURS, AND ENFORCEMENT PROSPECTS |
30 Wisconsin International Law Journal 761 (Winter, 2013) |
The roots of the human right to water and sanitation date back to ancient times when concepts of community governed water use. Since then, the right has evolved alongside cultural and religious traditions, evolving social norms, and the law. The right to water and sanitation has been brought increasingly to the forefront of international human... |
2013 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Andrea Freeman |
THE UNBEARABLE WHITENESS OF MILK: FOOD OPPRESSION AND THE USDA |
3 UC Irvine Law Review 1251 (December, 2013) |
Introduction. 1251 I. Food Oppression. 1254 II. Milk Does a Body Good?. 1257 III. Structural and Cultural Analysis of the USDA's Promotion of the Dairy Industry. 1263 A. Structural Analysis. 1263 1. Challenges Facing the USDA as a Multi-Role Agency. 1263 2. Federal Dietary Guidelines. 1264 3. Distribution. 1266 B. Cultural Analysis. 1268 1.... |
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 |
| Katherine Pratt |
A CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE OF PUBLIC HEALTH ARGUMENTS FOR ANTIOBESITY SODA TAXES AND FOOD TAXES |
87 Tulane Law Review 73 (November, 2012) |
This Article constructively critiques the two arguments that public health advocates have made in support of antiobesity soda taxes or junk food taxes. Part II discusses and critiques the first argument, an economic externalities argument that government should tax soda or junk food to internalize the disproportionately high health care costs of... |
2012 |
| Angelica I. Ambrose |
A NATIONAL SCHOOL GARDEN PROGRAM: A HOLISTIC AND SUSTAINABLE APPROACH TO COMBATING FOOD DESERTS |
21 San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review 51 (2011-2012) |
A family walks into a brand new grocery store in its neighborhood, the first large supermarket that has been close to home in years. The supermarket recently opened this location as a result of government incentives meant to bring fresh, affordable produce into neighborhoods where it was previously absent. Because affordable fresh fruits and... |
2012 |
| Aaron Sternick |
FOOD FIGHT: THE IMPENDING AGRICULTURAL CRISIS AND A REASONABLE RESPONSE TO PRICE VOLATILITY |
23 Villanova Environmental Law Journal 145 (2012) |
Like storefront windows during the recent Algerian food riots, surging food prices may soon shatter the global food economy. The hunger-fueled turmoil has spilled into international politics with decades-strong regimes toppling one by one. Meanwhile, in America, third-world food riots appear to be nothing more than the usual struggle between... |
2012 |
| George Klidonas , Keith R. Murphy , Baker Hostetler, New York, Baker Hostetler, New York |
JUDICIAL ESTOPPEL REVISITED |
31-JUN American Bankruptcy Institute Journal 18 (June, 2012) |
Judicial estoppel is an issue that has been heavily litigated and the subject of recent decisions in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Judicial estoppel is an equitable doctrine used by courts to prevent a litigant from asserting a legal position in a proceeding that is inconsistent with that litigant's position in a prior... |
2012 |
| Kate Meals |
NURTURING THE SEEDS OF FOOD JUSTICE: UNEARTHING THE IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM ON ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOOD IN URBAN AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES |
15 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 97 (2012) |
I. Introduction. 98 II. Background. 103 A. Who are the Hungry?. 104 B. Enter Food Justice: A Community Movement for Change. 111 III. No Right to Food in the United States?. 114 IV. Urban Communities. 116 A. White Flight: A Brief History of Segregation and Ghettoization. 116 B. Grocery Stores Leave Urban Areas. 120 1. Transportation Barriers. 121 2.... |
2012 |
| Keith Aoki , John Shuford , Esmeralda Soria , Emilio Camacho |
PASTURES OF PEONAGE?: TRACING THE FEEDBACK LOOP OF FOOD THROUGH IP, GMOS, TRADE, IMMIGRATION, AND U.S. AGRO-MAQUILAS |
4 Northeastern University Law Journal 1 (Spring, 2012) |
I. Introduction II. The Rise of Global Agribusiness and GMOs A. Agrichemical Farming and IP Protection for GE Food Crops and PGR B. Industrialization and Concentration of Farming and Food Transport, Processing, and Sales III. Economic Globalization and Labor Migration in North America A. Globalization of Finance and Trade: Effects on Mexico's... |
2012 |
| Louis J. Kotzé , Rebecca Bates |
SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON ACCESS TO WATER IN AUSTRALIA AND SOUTH AFRICA |
15 University of Denver Water Law Review 221 (Spring 2012) |
I. Introduction. 222 II. Grounding the Comparative Approach. 223 III. Focus, Key Terminology, and Assumptions. 226 IV. Environmental and Hydro-political Contexts. 228 A. South Africa. 228 B. Australia. 232 V. The Regulatory Frameworks. 235 A. South Africa. 235 1. Policy Framework. 235 2. Constitutional Provisions. 236 3. Statutory Framework. 239 4.... |
2012 |
| Jada J. Fehn |
THE ASSAULT ON BAD FOOD: TOBACCO-STYLE LITIGATION AS AN ELEMENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE SCHEME TO FIGHT OBESITY |
67 Food & Drug Law Journal 65 (2012) |
When Vanessa Castillo was just 14 years old, she was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Like low-income neighborhoods all over the country, the uptown neighborhood in New York where Castillo lives is disproportionately affected by the disease. One of the major challenges facing those like Castillo is access to healthy food. Food deserts, urban core... |
2012 |
| Tom I. Romero, II J.D., PH.D. |
THE COLOR OF WATER: OBSERVATIONS OF A BROWN BUFFALO ON WATER LAW AND POLICY IN TEN STANZAS |
15 University of Denver Water Law Review 329 (Spring 2012) |
Prologue: The Brown Buffalo Awakens. 330 I. Stanza I. 335 II. Stanzas II and III. 339 III. Stanzas IV and V. 348 IV. Stanzas VI and VII. 354 V. Stanzas VIII and IX. 360 VI. Stanza X. 362 Conclusion: The Brown Buffalo Blue. 366 |
2012 |
| Baylen J. Linnekin , Jeffrey Dermer , Matthew Geller |
THE NEW FOOD TRUCK ADVOCACY: SOCIAL MEDIA, MOBILE FOOD VENDING ASSOCIATIONS, TRUCK LOTS, & LITIGATION IN CALIFORNIA & BEYOND |
17 Nexus: Chapman's Journal of Law & Policy 35 (2011-2012) |
Street vending is one of the world's oldest professions. Food is and always has been one of the most popular items offered for sale by vendors. In America, food has been sold on the streets since well before the birth of the nation. In many ways the practice of setting up a stationary stall on the side of a road or in a public square or market for... |
2012 |
| Cameron Jefferies |
UNCONVENTIONAL BRIDGES OVER TROUBLED WATER - LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE CANADIAN OIL SANDS AS THE UNITED STATES MOVES TO DEVELOP THE NATURAL GAS OF THE MARCELLUS SHALE PLAY |
33 Energy Law Journal 75 (2012) |
I. Introduction. 76 II. The Emergence of Unconventional Fossil Fuel Sources. 78 A. Present Reliance on Fossil Fuel Energy and Forecasted Energy Needs. 78 B. Energy Security and Self-Sufficiency. 80 C. Interaction with Water Resources. 81 III. Understanding Unconventional Fuels. 82 A. The Canadian Oil Sands. 82 1. What Are the Oil Sands and How Are... |
2012 |