Patents encourage innovation by securing rights of exclusion in lucrative markets. Yet when it comes to green technology, the patent system may run the risk of instead acting as a barrier to access.
Trump’s pursuit of Greenland threatens its environment, established protections, and Indigenous knowledge systems, revealing how geopolitics can sideline climate vulnerability and those who safeguard it.
U.S. intervention in Venezuela raises urgent questions about sovereignty, international law, and the environmental costs of reviving heavy, carbon-intensive oil production.
Climate change is displacing millions, but U.S. environmental and immigration laws fail to protect climate migrants—revealing a growing legal gap with urgent human consequences.
The report covers key thoughts, discussions, and findings from the 2025 Georgetown AI and Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Symposium in pursuit of unpacking the technical and legal nexus between AI and environmental compliance and enforcement.
This article explores the Middle East's shift away from oil dependence towards renewable energies, highlighting how this energy transition has resulted in regional collaboration, economic diversification, and global implications.
Aligning trade policies with environmental objectives is imperative to efforts to address the mounting global climate crisis. The Villars Framework offers a groundbreaking approach to environmentally-conscious trade policy.
As air pollution and global warming worsens across the United States, attorneys are looking to the Atmospheric Trust Doctrine to hold states accountable for their pollution.
On February 6, 2023, a colossal 7.8 magnitude earthquake, followed shortly after by a 7.6 magnitude aftershock struck Turkey, its epicenter closest to the city of Kahramanmaras. Over 50,000 people have died in large part due to building collapses, with…
From December 7 to 19, 2022, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held its fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP15), culminating in the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework.[1] The Convention on Biological Diversity is an international…
