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Why Intellectual Property Rights In Traditional Knowledge Cannot Contribute To Sustainable Development, Dennis S. Karjala
Why Intellectual Property Rights In Traditional Knowledge Cannot Contribute To Sustainable Development, Dennis S. Karjala
Dennis S Karjala
This paper makes a simple point: If sustainability (however defined) is the goal, intellectual property rights in traditional knowledge do not move us toward the achievement of that goal. The reason is that the only social policy justification for recognizing intellectual property rights at all is that they supposedly serve as an incentive to create socially desirable works of authorship and inventions. They are not and should serve as a reward for past achievements. In other words, outside of their usual incentive function of promoting new technology, intellectual property rights in traditional knowledge have no role to play in the …
Regulatory Impact Analyses Of Environmental Justice Effects, Spencer Banzhaf
Regulatory Impact Analyses Of Environmental Justice Effects, Spencer Banzhaf
Spencer Banzhaf
Finding an appropriate way to incorporate environmental justice considerations into policy-making has been a procedural challenge since President Clinton issued Executive Order 12,898 over 15 years ago. Moreover, environmental justice concerns tend to be overshadowed by efficiency considerations as embodied in benefit-cost analysis. This article argues that the environmental justice and benefit-cost policies and procedures in EPA's rule-making can both be improved by bringing them closer together, ultimately improving environmental regulations as well. In particular, environmental justice consideration should be incorporated into Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIAs) by drawing on the much older tradition of incorporating distributional effects into benefit-cost analysis. …
Fueling The Coal War--The Courts, The Feds, And The Epa: Who Is In A Better Position To Curb Coal-Related Pollution?, Corwyn Davis
Fueling The Coal War--The Courts, The Feds, And The Epa: Who Is In A Better Position To Curb Coal-Related Pollution?, Corwyn Davis
Corwyn M Davis
ABSTRACT: With the United States’ continued and growing dependence on the use of coal for energy production, it is vital that the country examines ways to eliminate coal wastes more efficiently. The courts have varying opinions on who should ultimately bear responsibility for environmental torts connected with carbon pollution. With greenhouse gases and global warming stealing the environmental spotlight, the equally hazardous nature of coal combustion waste disposal has taken a back door to national policy reform. This paper introduces the problems associated with the disposal of this hazardous by-product. By analyzing the status quo of environmental regulation, it becomes …
Property As Capture And Care, Keith H. Hirokawa
Property As Capture And Care, Keith H. Hirokawa
Keith H. Hirokawa
Capture (as a doctrine and a conceptual scheme) has long provided law with a basis for allocating rights between competing claims to property. Capture, however, has always offered only a partial picture of property. This article considers opportunities to view property law from the perspectives of care, collaboration, and community, principles offered by ecofeminists to describe the relationships that humans can (and do) have with land. This article argues that property is ultimately a negotiation between capture and care, and that by recognizing care as a property principle, property appears to provide a more comprehensive and consistent understanding of how …
A Review Of The 2011 And 2013 Digital Television Energy Efficiency Regulations Developed And Adopted By The California Energy Commission, Christopher P. Wazzan
A Review Of The 2011 And 2013 Digital Television Energy Efficiency Regulations Developed And Adopted By The California Energy Commission, Christopher P. Wazzan
Christopher P Wazzan
In December 2009, the California Energy Commission (“CEC”) adopted on-mode standards for power consumption of televisions, (e.g., watts used) which will go into effect in 2011. Proposed standards are subject to Section 25402(c) of the California Public Resources Code (“CPRC”) which requires that proposed regulations must “not result in any added total costs to the consumer over the designed life of the appliances concerned.” In order to comply with the CPRC, in September 2009, the CEC issued a report alleging consumers would save $8.1 billion from reduced energy consumption. We find that the CEC study is critically flawed and that …
A Few Inconvenient Truths About Michael Crichton's State Of Fear: Lawyers, Causes And Science, Lea B. Vaughn
A Few Inconvenient Truths About Michael Crichton's State Of Fear: Lawyers, Causes And Science, Lea B. Vaughn
Lea B Vaughn
Abstract: Although Crichton has lost the battle regarding global warming, his characterization of lawyers and law practice remains unchallenged. This article challenges his damning portrait of lawyers as know-nothing, self aggrandizing manipulators of various social and environmental causes. A more nuanced examination of “cause lawyering” reveals that lawyers are not part of a vast conspiracy to grab power through the causes for which many work; in fact, the rules of professional responsibility as well as the structure of “cause lawyering” limit their power and influence. Regardless, lawyers are nonetheless vital, and generally principled, participants in the debates and causes that …
Practical Guide To Environmental Law And Regulatory Compliance In Texas, Richard Faulk, John S. Gray
Practical Guide To Environmental Law And Regulatory Compliance In Texas, Richard Faulk, John S. Gray
Richard Faulk
History teaches us that the natural development of our land and resources has been a contentious undertaking. Until recently, the issues that today make up the corpus of “environmental law” were not to be found in environmental cases, legislative journals or in environmental law treatises. Instead, they were found under the rubrics of property, constitutional law, contract and the common law. Today, environmental law consists of a complex and interlocking body of treaties, conventions, statutes, regulations, and common law that attempt to work together in unison to regulate how we (individuals, governmental entities and businesses) interact with the rest of …
Cleaning Up Bankruptcy: Limiting The Dischargeability Of Environmental Cleanup Costs, Sonali P. Chitre
Cleaning Up Bankruptcy: Limiting The Dischargeability Of Environmental Cleanup Costs, Sonali P. Chitre
Sonali P Chitre
This article reconciles the joint aims of environmental and bankruptcy law after Judge Posner’s myopic opinion in the Seventh Circuit’s resolution of U.S. v. Apex Oil. These two areas of law represent alternative means to the same end—the equitable distribution of limited resources—and share equity’s traditional emphasis of function over form. Ignoring these principles, Judge Posner ruled in Apex that a cleanup order constitutes a dischargeable “claim” when styled as a legal judgment but not when styled as an equitable injunction. This despite the fact that in either case the liability amounts to the same thing-payment must be made for …
The Invading Waters: Climate Change Dispossession, State Extinction, And International Law, Jared D. Hestetune
The Invading Waters: Climate Change Dispossession, State Extinction, And International Law, Jared D. Hestetune
Jared D Hestetune
The level of the sea is inevitably rising. Even the conservative estimates of the IPCC portray a dire future for low-lying island nations such as the Republic of Maldives. The future of an inundated state bodes ill for Maldives's continued participation in international relations. This essay analyzes the possibility of the persistence of a state after its territory has been submerged and destroyed, and it comes to the unfortunate conclusion that a submerged state will de facto become extinct in international law. Thus, entire nationalities will disappear, which likely consequence is strong motivation to protect the human right of national …
Cleaning Up Bankruptcy: Limiting The Dischargeability Of Environmental Cleanup Costs, Sonali P. Chitre
Cleaning Up Bankruptcy: Limiting The Dischargeability Of Environmental Cleanup Costs, Sonali P. Chitre
Sonali P Chitre
This article reconciles the joint aims of environmental and bankruptcy law after Judge Posner’s myopic opinion in the Seventh Circuit’s resolution of U.S. v. Apex Oil. These two areas of law represent alternative means to the same end—the equitable distribution of limited resources—and share equity’s traditional emphasis of function over form. Ignoring these principles, Judge Posner ruled in Apex that a cleanup order constitutes a dischargeable “claim” when styled as a legal judgment but not when styled as an equitable injunction. This despite the fact that in either case the liability amounts to the same thing-payment must be made for …
Food Sovereignty Is A Gendered Issue, Margaret Ellinger-Locke
Food Sovereignty Is A Gendered Issue, Margaret Ellinger-Locke
Margaret Ellinger-Locke
No abstract provided.
Moving Power Forward: Creating A Forward-Looking Energy Policy Based On A National Rps, Joshua P. Fershee
Moving Power Forward: Creating A Forward-Looking Energy Policy Based On A National Rps, Joshua P. Fershee
Joshua P Fershee
In Power Forward: The Argument for a National RPS, Professor Lincoln L. Davies provides a comprehensive and compelling argument for a national renewable portfolio standard (“RPS”). This Commentary Article reviews Professor Davies’ assumptions and conclusions and places his RPS analysis in context within the broader energy and environmental debate.
Beyond expanding renewable energy generation and shifting away from fossil fuels, RPS legislation is often motivated by additional goals: addressing climate change, improving national security, and promoting economic development. This Commentary Article argues that, if these loftier goals are to be achieved, a better articulation of RPS objectives is necessary. Furthermore, …
India’S Integrated Energy Policy: A Source Of Economic Nirvana Or Environmental Disaster?, Deepa Badrinarayana
India’S Integrated Energy Policy: A Source Of Economic Nirvana Or Environmental Disaster?, Deepa Badrinarayana
Deepa Badrinarayana
India’s rapidly growing economy naturally demands increasing energy needs from the industrial scale down to the personal. Mindful of potential negative impacts of economic development, India is making efforts to encourage growth while preserving and protecting the environment and human rights. India’s Integrated Energy Policy sets out the roadmap for how the country plans to achieve the balance among development, environmental protection, citizens’ rights, energy security, and a host of other priorities and concerns. Though ambitious and broad in scope, the Policy may prove inadequate in mitigating environmental impacts of development, and thus inadequate in balancing India’s needs, particularly in …
Finishing The Climate Change Puzzle: A Proposal For The United States National Climate Change Law, Carolyn Aguilar
Finishing The Climate Change Puzzle: A Proposal For The United States National Climate Change Law, Carolyn Aguilar
Carolyn Aguilar
An analysis of the 2009-2010 Congressional climate change bill proposals and its potential impacts on international environmental agreements and its impacts on subnational climate change laws. This article proposes a potential best solution for a new national climate change law.
Present At The Creation: The 1910 Big Burn And The Formative Days Of The U.S. Forest Service, Michael Blumm
Present At The Creation: The 1910 Big Burn And The Formative Days Of The U.S. Forest Service, Michael Blumm
Michael Blumm
This is a book review of Timothy Egan's "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America."
Crude Defenses? Liability Limits For Offshore Drilling Accidents And Oil Spills, Richard Faulk
Crude Defenses? Liability Limits For Offshore Drilling Accidents And Oil Spills, Richard Faulk
Richard Faulk
All those who participate in realizing the benefits of exploration – including those who use the resulting products and depend on their safe handling to avoid harm – are subject to their dangers. When the risks are enormous, and when society’s demands are extraordinary, the situation is ripe for political compromise. The products of that compromise may not be popular at this time of crisis, but that does not lessen their importance as anchors of reason during difficult times. The Limitation Act and the OPA, as well as the procedures under Supplemental Rule F, form a foundation that enables the …
Climate Adaptation And The Fifth Amendment To The United States Constitution: How Do Adaptation Strategies Impact Regulatory Takings Claims?, Chad J. Mcguire
Climate Adaptation And The Fifth Amendment To The United States Constitution: How Do Adaptation Strategies Impact Regulatory Takings Claims?, Chad J. Mcguire
Chad J McGuire
How Law Mattered To The Mono Lake Ecosystem, Sherry A. Enzler
How Law Mattered To The Mono Lake Ecosystem, Sherry A. Enzler
Sherry A. Enzler
The 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported unprecedented degradation of ecosystems and the services they provide to human well being which, if allowed to continue would adversely affect human health, security and welfare. Our environmental legal authorities, however, are not designed to protect the health of our nation’s ecosystems focusing instead on clean air, clean land and clean water as single medium, often referred to as the silo approach to environmental protection. Protecting ecosystems requires a systemic approach to the environment in both policy and law; this in turn requires a change in our approach to environmental protection. How do we …
Stretching The Boom? Limiting Liability For Offshore Drilling Disasters, Richard Faulk
Stretching The Boom? Limiting Liability For Offshore Drilling Disasters, Richard Faulk
Richard Faulk
Offshore drilling is a tremendously complicated and potentially lucrative process. Unfortunately, it is also dangerous. Harvesters of fossil fuels face massive risks, not only to their lives and properties, but also to our environment and the livelihoods of all those who depend upon it. On balance, our “modern” sense of justice might insist that those who realize wealth should bear the risks that their exploration and production poses to others. But when a product, like petroleum, is inextricably woven into our national fabric, legislators sometimes reach surprising compromises. So, it seems, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon will argue in …
Cooling The Core Habitat Provision Of The Endangered Species Act Before It Goes Critical: Practical Critical Habitat Reformulation, Allan J. Ray
Allan J Ray
The Endangered Species Act contains provisions that aim to protect “critical habitat.” However, while having generated heated controversy and conflict and having served as fertile ground for legal, political, and economic theorists, these provisions have done very little to reduce the impact on endangered species from the land uses to which private owners put their property. This article synthesizes several of the most powerful criticisms of critical habitat, together with the responses thereto, to argue that the agencies implementing the Act have low-cost options available to them under the Act as presently structured that might pay big habitat dividends over …
Legal And Regulatory Issuesof Carbon Capture And Sequestrationprojects For Coal-Fired Power Plants, Alexina Chalachin
Legal And Regulatory Issuesof Carbon Capture And Sequestrationprojects For Coal-Fired Power Plants, Alexina Chalachin
Alexina Chalachin
No abstract provided.
Environmental Mitigation Aspects Of Water Resources In Geothermal Development: Using A Comparative Approach In Building A Law And Policy Framework For More Sustainable Water Management Practices In Canada, Kamaal Zaidi
Kamaal Zaidi
This paper examines environmental mitigation measures for water resources in the context of geothermal energy development among selected jurisdictions of the United States and New Zealand in the hopes of recommending a law and policy framework in Canada. These common law jurisdictions are chosen to reveal advances in the emerging area of geothermal law and policy. First, the geothermal energy process is explained, followed by a discussion of the legal aspects of geothermal energy development. Second, the benefits of geothermal law and policy are assessed from the experiences of the U.S. and New Zealand in terms of environmental mitigation measures …
Because The Cart Situates The Horse: Unrecognized Movements Underlying The Indian Supreme Court’S Internalization Of International Environmental Law, Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
Because The Cart Situates The Horse: Unrecognized Movements Underlying The Indian Supreme Court’S Internalization Of International Environmental Law, Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
The text that follows is intended to serve as an examination of the approaches and methods employed by the Indian Supreme Court in its effort to integrate international environmental norms such as the principle of Sustainable Development, the Precautionary Principle and the Polluter Pays Principle as part of the existing body of binding, municipal rules in India. Virtually all of Indian legal jurisprudence that speaks to this subject has been developed by the Supreme Court. Likewise, in no small part for this contribution, the Court has developed a reputation for being an activist institution that has since the mid 1980s …
The Moral Limits Of Jurisdiction, Beau James Brock, Harold Leggett
The Moral Limits Of Jurisdiction, Beau James Brock, Harold Leggett
Beau James Brock
As the states and the public face new rules on emissions under the Clean Air Act, the authors find that environmental policy devoid of economic feasibility equals ethical bankruptcy by policymakers to the detriment of all citizens and their economic liberty
Hanousek V. United States: Social Engineering Encroaching On Individual Liberty, Beau James Brock
Hanousek V. United States: Social Engineering Encroaching On Individual Liberty, Beau James Brock
Beau James Brock
A legal decision that unexpectedly judicially “extended the reach environmental criminal law” was Hanousek v. United States, wherein the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held the legal standard for criminal negligence under the Clean Water Act (CWA) was ordinary negligence.
Sitting On Your Rights: Why The Statute Of Limitations For Adverse Possession Should Not Protect Couch Potato Future Interest Holders, Stevie J. Barachkov
Sitting On Your Rights: Why The Statute Of Limitations For Adverse Possession Should Not Protect Couch Potato Future Interest Holders, Stevie J. Barachkov
Stevie J Barachkov
This article suggests that vested future interest holders have legal recourse to remove adverse possessors during the preceding life tenant’s estate. It explores the British and American legal history that engendered modern adverse possession. It provides a survey of the public policy rationales behind adverse possession and an in depth review of its requisite elements. After examining the legal rights of future interest holders in the Fifty States, this article assesses the options for the future interest holder to obtain relief against either the life tenant or the adverse possessor in the form of actions: on the case; to quiet …
One Year's Environmental Litigation: 1977-78, Oscar S. Gray
One Year's Environmental Litigation: 1977-78, Oscar S. Gray
Oscar S. Gray
No abstract provided.
Epa’S Attempt To Regulate Greenhouse Gases Under The Clear Air Act: Will Chevron Allow The Tailoring Rule To Withstand Judicial Review? And Why The Answer Doesn’T Matter, James Valvo
James Valvo
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued three new Clean Air Act regulations targeting greenhouse gases, as a response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA. One of these proposals, the Tailoring Rule, seeks to adjust the applicability thresholds that trigger the prevention of significant deterioration and title V permit requirements. EPA is attempting to use the Tailoring Rule to soften the blow of new greenhouse gas regulations on both businesses and state permitting agencies. This proposed rule clearly violates the expressed congressional intent in the statute. Legal challenges to EPA’s actions are looming and the standard of review …
The Response Of Federal Legislation To Historic Preservation, Oscar S. Gray
The Response Of Federal Legislation To Historic Preservation, Oscar S. Gray
Oscar S. Gray
No abstract provided.
Hannibal Eclipsed? Envelopment By Public Nuisance, Richard Faulk
Hannibal Eclipsed? Envelopment By Public Nuisance, Richard Faulk
Richard Faulk
Only recently, the ancient tort of public nuisance was “down” and in the process of being “counted out” when its expansion was rejected by the highest courts of New Jersey, Rhode Island, Missouri and Ohio. Within the past year, however, it was remarkably resuscitated by federal courts that approved it as a vehicle for redressing climate change and interstate pollution. Without the constraints of geography, public nuisance now “spans the globe” in an enveloping maneuver that threatens to reduce Hannibal’s legendary victory at Cannae to a mere neighborhood brawl. Unless the tort’s scope is narrowed by reviewing courts, its pincer …