In Print
VOLUME 35, ISSUE 2 (Winter 2023)
Articles
The Case Against the Case for Zoning
Michael Lewyn
“OG ESG”: How African Sovereign Wealth Funds Can Show the Way Forward for International ESG Investing
Jordan Metoyer
Climate Change and the Specter of Statelessness
Mark Nevitt
Nanotechnology in Drinking Water Treatment Systems: Risk and Regulatory Compliance
David Strifling, Jacob Dalton, and Veronika Folvarska
Notes
Beefing Up Our Tax Policy: Why Local Governments Should Tax Red and Processed Meat
Reuben Ilan Siegman
Working Against Climate Change: Connecting Labor Rights and Environmental Justice
Shannon Twiss
VOLUME 35, ISSUE 1 (Fall 2022)
Articles
Trespass Plus: Ag-Gag and the Right to Exclude
Anthony B. Derron
Carbon Restructuring: A Grassroots Strategy to Combat Climate Change
Matt Elgin
Unleashing Ecocide: Conscripting International Prosecutors into the Fight Against Climate Change
Ethan A. Heller
“We Want to Live!” Climate Change and the Limits of Civil Disobedience
Frédéric Mégret & Amar Khoday
Notes
Is FAST-41 Permitting All that Fast? Why Congress Must Take a More Serious Approach to Streamlining Federal Permitting
David Stepovich
VOLUME 34, ISSUE 3 (Summer 2022)
Articles
Legal Challenges of Building Resilience for Informal Settlements in Developed, Democratic Contexts
Ju-Ching Huang
Watered Down Voices, Watered Down Justice: A Demand for Polycentricism, Demosprudence, and Praxis in WOTUS Regulatory Reform
Martin McCrory, Inara Scott, Angie Raymond, and Paul Levy
Before the Deluge: Federal Policy and Flood Resiliency
Brian McWalters
Notes
Killing Two Myths with One Stone: How the Public Trust Doctrine Can Improve Climate Resiliency by Stopping Gentrification
Alexandra Votaw
Volume 34, Issue 2 (Winter 2022)
Articles
Enforcing Conservation Easements: The Through Line
Nancy A. McLaughlin
Clean Air Act Section 115: Is the IPCC a “Duly Constituted International Agency”?
Adam D. Orford
The Positive Obligation to Prevent Climate Harm Under the Law of State Responsibility
Agnes Chong
Vermin of Proof: Arguments for the Admissibility of Animal Model Studies as Proof of Causation in Toxic Tort Litigation
Kristen Ranges and Jessica Owley
Volume 34, Issue 1 (Fall 2022)
Articles
The Local Public Trust Doctrine
Sean Lyness
Aristotelian Decency as a Corrective for Compliance-Induced Environmental Racism
Daniel T. Ostas & Gastón de los Reyes
Notes
A River Used to Run Through It: Protecting the Public Right to a Sustainable Water System
Samuel C. Yang
Volume 33, Issue 3 (Summer 2021)
Articles
Time for Plan(et) B? Why Securities Litigation Is a Misguided Attempt at Regulating Climate Change
Robert K. Cowan
Penn Central in Retrospect: The Past and Future of Historic Preservation Regulation
J Peter Byrne
Legal History Repeats Itself on Climate Change: The Commerce Clause and Renewable Energy
Steven Ferrey
Volume 33, Issue 2 (Winter 2021)
Articles
The Rocky Road to Energy Dominance: The Executive Branch’s Limited Authority to Modify and Revoke Withdrawals of Federal Lands from Mineral Production
Hillary M. Hoffmann & Robert L. Glicksman
Rethinking the Supreme Court’s Interstate Waters Jurisprudence
Jamison E. Colburn
Notes
Using the Public Trust Doctrine to Balance the Impacts of Renewable Energy Projects
Kayla A. Steinberg
Is Twitter the New FTC and EPA? Publicized Private Action as the Anti-Greenwashing Mechanism in Modern Society
Claire Fischer
Volume 33, Issue 1 (Fall 2020)
Articles
A Canary in a Coal Mine: What We Haven’t Learned from Deepwater Horizon and How Courts Can Help
Abigail E. André
Arbitrary and Capricious: The Dark Canon of the United States Supreme Court in Environmental Law
Oliver A. Houck
International Environmental Law and Climate Change: Reflections on Structural Challenges in a “Kaleidoscopic” World
Jutta Brunnée
Notes
Another Step Forward: Reconsidering the Current State of Offshore Drilling in the Arctic
Austin Holtshouser
Polluting ’til the Cows Come Home: How Agricultural Exceptionalism Allows CAFOs Free Range for Climate Harm
Ryan Levandowski
Volume 32, Issue 4 (Summer 2020)
Articles
From Factory Farming to a Sustainable Food System: A Legislative Approach
Michelle Johnson-Weider
Notes
Indian Reserved Rights to Groundwater: Victory for Tribes, for Now
Catherine Schluter
The Role of Courts in Remedying Climate Chaos: Transcending Judicial Nihilism and Taking Survival Seriously
Scott Novak
Volume 32, Issue 3 (Spring 2020)
Articles
Environmental Rule of Law in the Context of Sustainable Development
Arnold Kreilhuber & Angela Kariuki
Defending the Future: Intergenerational Equity in Climate Litigation
Lydia Slobodian
Edith Brown Weiss as a Pathfinder: Strengthening Property Rights and Community-Based Resource Governance for Indigenous Peoples Worldwide
Kirk Talbott, Sera Song, & Janis Alcorn
In Fairness to Future Generations of Eaters
Steph Tai
Greenish, but with More Dimensions: A Framework for Identifying Binding Instruments of International Environmental Law
Carl Bruch, Imad Antoine Ibrahim & Rachel Lerner
Fifty Shades of Green
Daniel Magraw & Lin Qin
Notes
Safeguard Reforms at the World Bank: Mutual Accountability or a Race to the Bottom?
Kathryn D. Priester
Volume 32, Issue 2 (Winter 2020)
Articles
Rising Tides and Rearranging Deckchairs: How Climate Change Is Reshaping Infrastructure Finance and Threatening to Sink Municipal Budgets
Christine Sgarlata Chung
Tools for Regulators in a Changing Climate: Proposed Standards, State Policies, and Case Studies from the Western Grid
Adam D. Orford
Sustainable Use and Shared Species: Navigating AEWA’s Constraints on the Harvest of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds
Melissa Lewis
Notes
Time-of-Need and Amount-of-Need: Overcoming Two Key Issues with Deploying Clean, Renewable Electricity Generation
Molly Blei Fellus
Here Comes the Sun: Bringing Efficiency and Renewable Energy Solutions to Affordable Housing in the U.S.
Cecilia Turchetti
Recommending Judicial Reconstruction of Title VI to Curb Environmental Racism: A Recklessness-Based Theory of Discriminatory Intent
Leora Friedman
Volume 32, Issue 1 (Fall 2019)
Articles
IPR Management in International Cleantech Cooperation
Joy Y. Xiang
From Sovereignty to Self-Determination: Emergence of Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Natural Resources Management
Shawkat Alam and Abdullah Al Faruque
Exporting Nature’s Gift: An Analysis of Contemporary Water Law Issues in Aotearoa New Zealand
Isabelle Smith
Notes
Feeding the Beast: Addressing the Internet’s Insatiable Power Consumption
Kevin Hotchkiss
Electric Buses and Clean Energy Financing: How Transit Authorities Can Leverage State and Federal Funds to Buy More Zero-Emission Buses
Rebecca Strauss
Volume 31, Issue 4 (Summer 2019)
Articles
Innovation Through Traditional Water Knowledge: An Approach to the Water Crisis
Chiara Pappalardo
Roundup Litigation: Using Discovery to Dissolve Doubt
Katherine Drabiak
Embrace a Gift of Nature: A Proposal for Commercializing Natural Eco-Dyes for the Textile Industry
Vidhya V. Iyer
Notes
Sniffing Out Clandestine Water Pollution in the Tijuana River Valley
Samir Halawi
Volume 31, Issue 3 (Spring 2019)
Articles
From Paris to Pittsburgh: U.S. State and Local Leadership in an Era of Trump
Vicki Arroyo
Shintech: Environmental Justice at Ground Zero
Oliver A. Houck
Mitigating Malheur’s Misfortunes: The Public Interest in the Public’s Public Lands
Sandra B. Zellmer
Notes
Owning the World’s Seed Supply: How Seed Industry Mergers Threaten Global Food Security
Sara Ellen Mahoney
Consumers, Plastic, and What It Means To Be “Biodegradable”
Sanya Shahrasbi
VOLUME 31, ISSUE 2 (Winter 2019)
Articles
Returning to Clean Air Act Fundamentals: A Renewed Call to Regulate Greenhouse Gases Under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Program
Howard M. Crystal, Kassie Siegel, Maya Golden-Krasner, and Clare Lakewood
The National Flood Insurance Program at Fifty: How the Fifth Amendment Takings Doctrine Skews Federal Flood Policy
Christine A. Klein
Notes
In the Backyard of Segregated Neighborhoods: An Environmental Justice Case Study of Louisiana
Julia Mizutani
All in the Community: Using Community Solar Gardens to Bring the Benefits of Renewable Energy to Low-Income Communities
Megan O’Connor
Western Regional Transmission Organization: Creating a Market to Support Renewable Energy
Chris Westfall
VOLUME 31, ISSUE 1 (Fall 2018)
Articles
The Resilience of the Paris Agreement: Negotiating and Implementing the Climate Regime
Rafael Leal-Arcas & Antonio Morelli
The Lacey Act and Civil Forfeiture: Can the Government Sell Forfeited Wildlife and Plants?
Lynn A. Long
Notes
In Good Times and In Bad: An International Water Law Analysis of Minute 323
O.W. Bussey
(Re)negotiating the Environment: Implications of Trade Promotion Authority
Lauren Sillman
VOLUME 30, ISSUE 4 (Fall 2018)
Articles
The Unfulfilled Promise of Effective Air Quality and Emissions Monitoring
Adam Babich
No Murr Tests: Penn Central is Enough Already!
Timothy M. Harris
Get Out From Under My Land! Hydraulic Fracturing, Forced Pooling or Unitization, and the Role of the Dissenting Landowner
Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, J.D., J.S.D.
Notes
Volume 30, Issue 3 (Spring 2018)
Symposium
From Exxon to Paris: A Review of Environmental Law over the Last 30 Years
Hilary C. Tompkins
Articles
The Paralysis Paradox and the Untapped Role of Science in Solving “Big” Environmental Problems
Jan G. Laitos & Christopher Ainscough
Melting the Polarization Around Climate Change Politics
Cale Jaffe
Notes
Innocent in the Land of the Guilty: Promoting Efficiency and Fairness in CERCLA Defenses
Andrew W. Marrero
Regulatory Silos: Assessing the United States’ Regulation of Biotechnology in the Age of Gene Drives
Carlene Dooley
Volume 30, Issue 2 (Winter 2018)
Articles
Climate Change Beyond Environmentalism Part II: Near-Term Climate Mitigation in a Post-Regulatory Era
Jonathan Lovvorn
Effectiveness of the Renewable Fuel Standard in Sparking Innovation in the Cellulosic Biofuels Industry
Laura Powell
The Missing Element of Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis: Compensation for the Loss of Regulatory Benefits
Karl S. Coplan
Notes
A New Path to Climate Justice: Adaptation Suits Against Private Entities
Thomas Landers
A Method of Neutralizing: The Contentious Relationship Between Chemical Weapons Destruction and U.S. Environmental Law
Kate Mccormick
Volume 30, Issue 1 (Fall 2017)
Articles
From Smokes to Smokestacks: Lessons from Tobacco for the Future of Climate Change Liability
Martin Olszynski, Sharon Mascher, and Meinhard Doelle
The Warming War: How Climate Change is Creating Threats to International Peace and Security
Dr. Kirsten Davies and Thomas Riddell
Attempting to Define the Human Right to Water with an Annotated Bibliography & Recommendations for Practitioners
Jootaek Lee and Maraya Best
Notes
PACE-Ing Flood Resilience
Ryan A. Reed
A Fracking Nuisance: How States Can Compel Their Neighbors to Regulate Hydraulic Fracturing with Judicial Equitable Relief
Rebecca Faye Eschen
Nonbinding Subnational International Agreements: A Landscape Defined
Aaron Messing
Volume 29, Issue 4 (Summer 2017)
Articles
Political Costs and the Challenge of Tradable Environmental Allowance Markets
David Bullock
Animating Performance Zoning at Sustainability’s Competitive Edge
Michael N. Widener
The South China Sea Award: A Milestone for International Environmental Law, the Duty of Due Diligence and the Litigation of Maritime Environmental Disputes?
Stephen Fietta, Jiries Saadeh and Laura Rees-Evans
Notes
A Lesson from the Shale Revolution in the United States, Canada, and China
Da Young Kim
Getting to the Root of Environmental Injustice: Evaluating Claims, Causes, and Solutions
R. Shea Diaz
The End of the Line: Shutting Down Enbridge Line 5, Still a Pipedream?
Paul Leahy