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Animal Law, K. Michelle Welch
Environmental Law, Dana C. Nifosi
Environmental Law, Dana C. Nifosi
University of Richmond Law Review
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The History Of State Action In The Environmental Realm: A Presumption Against Preemption In Climate Change Law?, Victor B. Flatt
The History Of State Action In The Environmental Realm: A Presumption Against Preemption In Climate Change Law?, Victor B. Flatt
San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law
As we move toward an almost certain comprehensive federal law to address climate change, increasing attention is being paid to what will happen to state and local climate change and climate change-related programs that have arisen in this country in the law few years. As the symposium demonstrated, California has a particular concern that federal law might block its environmental and climate change policies. ...
... In most areas, almost 40 years of environmental federalism has allowed states to regulate beyond the federal government for the protection of their citizens, and we can examine this history empirically in order to …
National Security And The U.N. Convention On The Law Of The Sea: U.S. Coast Guard Perspectives, Dr. John T. Oliver
National Security And The U.N. Convention On The Law Of The Sea: U.S. Coast Guard Perspectives, Dr. John T. Oliver
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
The world's oceans cover over seventy percent of the globe and contain ninety-seven percent of the world's water.
The Water Excise Tax: Preserving A Necessary Resource, Thomas Lee
The Water Excise Tax: Preserving A Necessary Resource, Thomas Lee
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
This Comment will first examine the history and current state of laws regulating water use in the United States, and the commercial uses that are the target of the proposed Water Excise Tax. The next step will be to discuss the tax itself from several perspectives: First, its constitutionality, structure, and application in the framework of existing water law; second, its advantages and disadvantages based on its regulatory nature and scope; and finally, the normative benefits of indirect regulation. The theses underlying all of these sections are that public drinking water will become scarce in the very near future, that …
Modern Lights, Sara C. Bronin
Modern Lights, Sara C. Bronin
University of Colorado Law Review
This Article functions as a companion to a piece, Solar Rights, concurrently published in the Boston University Law Review.1 In that piece, the author analyzed the absence of a coherent legal framework for the treatment of solar rightsthe rights to access and harness the rays of the sun. The growing popularity of, and need for, solar collector technology and other solar uses calls for reform. Answering the call for reform in Solar Rights, this Article proposes a framework within which a solar rights regime might be developed. First, as a baseline, any regime must recognize the natural characteristics of sunlight. …