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CURRENT AND RECENT VOLUMES

Volume XVIII Issue 4 (Summer 2006)

Forward, by Neal Kemkar

Introduction The State of Corporate Responsibility and the Environment, by Erik Assadourian

Essay Waking from Sustainability’s “Impossible Dream”: The Descionmaking Realities of Business and Government, by David Barnhizer

Articles Six Thinking Hats for the Lorax: Corporate Responsibility and the Environment, by Robert F. Blomquist

Sustainable Good Governance and Corporations: An Analysis of Asymmetries, by Surya Deva

An Environmental Outlook on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Comparative Advantage, Legitimacy, and Outstanding Questions in the Lead up to the 2006 Review, by Elisa Morgera

NOTE

Exporting Environmental Justice by Importing Claimants: The Suitability and Feasibility of the Globalization of Mass Tort Class Actions, by Seth A. Northrop

 

Volume XVIII Issue 3 (Spring 2006)

ARTICLES

Middle Eastern and North African Hydropolitics: From Eddies of Indecision to Emerging International Law, by Elizabeth Burleson

Johannesburg and Beyond: The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and the Rise of Partnerships, by S. Jacob Scherr & R. Juge Gregg

The Tragedy of the Commonwealth and the Vision of Wendell Berry, by Nathaniel Stewart

NOTES

Reshaping Environmental Criminal Law: How Forfeiture Statutes Can Deter Crime, by Amanda Doty

Environmental Displacement: Coordinating Efforts to Find Solutions, by Tracey King


Volume XVIII Issue 2 (Winter 2006)

ARTICLES

The Indigenous Sustainability Paradox and the Quest for Sustainability in Post-Colonial Societies: Is Indigenous Knowledge All that is Needed?, by Bosire Maragia

The Clean Development Mechanism: Does the Current Structure Facilitate Kyoto Protocol Compliance?, by Mindy G. Nigoff

Sharing Potential and the Potential for Sharing: Open Source Licensing as a Legal and Economic Modality for the Dissemination of Renewable Energy Technology, by Jason R. Wiener

NOTES

China’s Pollution Victims: Still Seeking a Dependable Remedy, by Adam Briggs

A Critical Examination of the Jewish Environmental Law of Bal Tashchit – “Do Not Destroy”, by David Nir

Deep Sea Bottom Trawling and the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape: A Test Case for Global Action, by Anna Vinson


Volume XVIII Issue 1 (Fall 2005)

ARTICLES

The Trail Smelter, the Columbia River, and the Extraterritorial Application of CERCLA, by Gerald F. Hess

The Day After Tomorrow: Ocean CO2 Sequestration and the Future of Climate Change, by Karen N. Scott

ESSAYS

Half Full… or Completely Empty?: Environmental Alien Tort Claims Post Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, by James Boeving

Water Justice in South Africa: Natural Resources Policy at the Intersection of Human Rights, Economics, and Political Power, by Rose Francis


Volume XVII Issue 4 (Summer 2005)

Foreword, by Kristen Hite and Judith Wallace

SYMPOSIUM

The International Responses to the Environmental Impacts of War

Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Jolie Apicella and Edith Brown Weiss

Keynote Address, Pekka Haavisto

Morning Panel Discussion, with Daniel Magraw, John Wilson, Doug Pool, Julia Klee, and Pekka Haavisto

Afternoon Panel Discussion, with Jay Austin, Rymn Parsons, Mark Drumbl, Charles Sheehan-Miles, Julia Klee

Closing Remarks, Carl Bruch

ARTICLES

Prosecuting Members of the U.S. Military for Wartime Environmental Crimes, by Eric Talbot Jensen and James J. Teixeira, Jr.

Criminal Punishment for Environmental Damage: Individual and State Responsibility at a Crossroad, by Marcos A. Orellana

NOTES

Prosecuting Attacks that Destroy the Environment: Environmental Crimes or Humanitarian Atrocities?, by Tara Weinstein

N.I.M.B.Y. Syndrome and the Ticking Time Bomb: Disputes over the Dismantling of Naval Obsolete Vessels, by Takako Morita

 

Volume XVII Issue 3 (Spring 2005)

ARTICLES

Inextricably Intertwined - Environmental Management and the Public, by Thomas Stowe Mullikin, Nancy Sara Smith, Michael Thomas Champion

Straightening out the Backward Legal Regulation of "Backward" Peoples' Claims to Land in the Russian North: The Concept of Indigenous Neomodernism, by Aleksandr Shapovalov

BOOK REVIEW

Indigenous Peoples, the Environment and the Law: An Anthology, Lawrence Waters, Ed., by Brian Myers

NOTES

The Legal System and Wildlife Conservation: History and the Law's Effect on Indigenous People and Community Conservation in Tanzania, by Gregg Goldstein

"Life is the Risk We Cannot Refuse": A Precautionary Approach to the Toxic Risks We Can, by Nathaniel Garrett

 

Volume XVII Issue 2 (Winter 2005)

NOTES

Red Dawn, Blue Thunder, Purple Rain: Corporate Risk of Liability for Global Climate Change and the SEC Disclosure Dilemma, by Elizabeth E. Hancock

Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows: What Does the Cape Wind Decision Foretell for the Offshore Wind Energy Industry? by Matthew C. Heerde

Assessing The Creation Of A Duty Under International Customary Law Whereby The United States Of America Would Be Obligated To Defend A Foreign State Against The Catastrophic But Localized Damage Of An Asteroid Impact, by Justin L. Koplow

International Trade: Pushing United States Agriculture Toward a Greener Future? by Stacey Willemsen Person

Evaluating the Preliminary Draft Articles on Transboundary Groundwaters Presented by Special Rapporteur Chusei Yamada at the 56th Session of the International Law Commission in Geneva, May 2004, by Tracy Stitt

Corporate Nationality, Investment Protection Agreements, and Challenges to Domestic Natural Resources Law: The Implications of Glamis Gold's NAFTA Chapter 11 Claim, by Judith Wallace

 

Volume XVII, Issue 1 (Fall 2004)

ARTICLES

The Precautionary Principle as the Law of Planetary Defense: Achieving the Mandate to Defend the Earth Against Asteroid and Comet Impacts While There is Still Time, by Evan R. Seamone (Abstract)

Canadian Federalism and the Environment: The Literature , by William R. MacKay (Abstract)

Towards a Common Law of International Investment: How NAFTA Chapter 11 Panels Should Solve their Legitimacy Crisis , by Ari Afilalo

NOTES

The Influence of Offshore Leasing Regimes on Commercial Oil Activity: An Empirical Analysis of Property Rights in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea, by Christopher F. Richardson (Abstract)

Cats v. Birds in Japan: How To Reconcile Wildlife Conservation and Animal Protection, by Mitsuhiko A. Takahashi (Abstract)

Will the WTO Turn Green? The Implications of Injecting Environmental Issues Into The Multilateral Trading System, by Richard Skeen (Abstract)

FORUM

Bush and Kerry: Competing Visions for U.S. Energy Policy, Discussion: David Garman and David Hays


Volume XVI, Issue 4 (Summer 2004)

FOCUS ISSUE: Failures of Environmental Protection

ARTICLES

Common but Differentiated? Australia’s Response to Global Climate Change, by Rosemary Lyster

Green Laws for Better Health: The Past that was and the Future that may be – Reflections from the Indian Experience, by Shubhankar Dam

Assessing the Dragon’s Choice: the Use of Market-Based Instruments in Chinese Environmental Policy, by Jolene Lin Shuwen

International Conventions Relating to Land-Based Sources of Marine Pollution Control: Applications and Shortcomings, by Daud Hassan

The Rotterdam Convention on Hazardous Chemicals: A Meaningful Step Toward Environmental Protection?, by Paula Barrios

NOTE

Back to the Basics: Improved Property Rights can Help Save Ecuador’s Rainforests, by Kristen Hite

Volume XVI, Issue 3 (Spring 2004)

ARTICLES

Human Rights and the Environment: A Synopsis and Some Predictions, by Barry E. Hill, Steve Wolfson & Nicholas Targ

Who Should Regulate the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline?, by Christopher P.M. Waters

Environmental Concerns in the Adjudication of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, by Christoph Schwarte

International Marine Environment Law: A Case Study in the Wider Caribbean Region, by Benedict Sheehy

Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the Compliance Continuum, by Teall Crossen

Towards an Improved Understanding of Legal Effectiveness of International Environmental Treaties, by W. Bradnee Chambers

NOTE

The Border 2012 U.S.-Mexico Environmental Program: Will a Bottom-Up Approach Work?, by Eileen Zorc



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