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Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Navigating Policy, Impact, And Equity, Tyler Halligan May 2024

Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Navigating Policy, Impact, And Equity, Tyler Halligan

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

"Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Navigating Policy, Impact, and Equity" examines the profound influence of corporations on environmental degradation through three pieces.

The first piece, "Understanding Factors Shaping Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility: Navigating a Path Towards Greater Accountability," explores seven critical areas: legal frameworks, global trade, multilateral development banks, international investment laws and agreements, corporate lobbying, transparency and environmental accountability, and economic growth priorities and negative externalities. It traces these topics from pre-1970s regulatory contexts to contemporary contexts, advocating for stronger regulations and ethical practices to foster accountability and sustainability.

The second piece, "Treatment as a State (TAS) under the Clean …


American Legion V. American Humanist Association, Seth T. Bonilla Oct 2019

American Legion V. American Humanist Association, Seth T. Bonilla

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The separation of church and state is a key element of American democracy, but its interpretation has been challenged as the country grows more diverse. In American Legion v. American Humanist Association, the Supreme Court adopted a new standard to analyze whether a religious symbol on public land maintained by public funding violated the Constitution’s Establishment Clause.


Takings, Torts, And Background Principles, Sandra B. Zellmer Jan 2017

Takings, Torts, And Background Principles, Sandra B. Zellmer

Faculty Law Review Articles

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Towards A Universal Field Theory Of National Private Rights And Federalism, Roderick M. Hills Jr. Feb 2015

Towards A Universal Field Theory Of National Private Rights And Federalism, Roderick M. Hills Jr.

Montana Law Review

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Democracy, Foot Voting, And The Case For Limiting Federal Power, Ilya Somin Feb 2015

Democracy, Foot Voting, And The Case For Limiting Federal Power, Ilya Somin

Montana Law Review

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Outside Influence, Anthony Johnstone Mar 2014

Outside Influence, Anthony Johnstone

Faculty Law Review Articles

This article considers how much outside influence matters to the constitutional analysis of state politics. It defends the political community principle applied in Bluman v. Federal Election Comm’n as an exception to the otherwise universal speaker-neutrality rule of Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm’n. It draws parallels between efforts to police national and state boundaries in politics, and the competing rights claims of outsiders to cross those boundaries and participate fully in domestic politics. The article suggests that the structural constitutional principle of political community supports certain state regulations of outside influence across a range of political activities. Part I …


The System Of Campaign Finance Disclosure, Anthony Johnstone Jan 2013

The System Of Campaign Finance Disclosure, Anthony Johnstone

Faculty Law Review Articles

This Essay considers Professor Gilbert’s model as the core element in a dynamic system of campaign finance disclosure. First, it recognizes several useful contributions of the model’s framework of informational costs and benefits. In the simplest analysis, disclosure increases the information available to voters by adding source revelation to campaign speech. However, the reality is more complicated. Disclosure can have a chilling effect that decreases the amount of campaign speech by imposing administrative and exposure burdens on speakers. As Professor Gilbert shows, this cannot end the analysis. What matters is not just the magnitude of the chilling effect on speech, …


The Political Dynamics Of Mandatory State Constitutional Convention Referendums: Lessons From The 2000s Regarding Obstacles And Pathways To Their Passage, John J. Dinan Jul 2010

The Political Dynamics Of Mandatory State Constitutional Convention Referendums: Lessons From The 2000s Regarding Obstacles And Pathways To Their Passage, John J. Dinan

Montana Law Review

State Constitutional Convention Referendums