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The International And Domestic Law Of Climate Change: A Binding International Agreement Without The Senate Or Congress?, David A. Wirth

David A. Wirth

This Article asserts that neither Senate advice and consent nor new congressional legislation are necessarily conditions precedent to the United States' becoming a party to a binding agreement to be adopted at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is to be held in Paris in December 2015. Depending on the form of such an agreement, which is presently under negotiation, the President's Climate Action Plan could provide sufficient domestic legal authority for the conclusion of all or part of such a binding international instrument as an executive agreement, as well as …

Book Review, The Law Of Adaptation To Climate Change: U.S. And International Aspects, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

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Book Review, Environmental Law And Sustainability After Rio, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

Review of an accessible collection of essays from around the world, offering insights into legal and political issues surrounding environmental law and sustainability.

Un Regard Extérieur: Back Impact Of European Union Legislation On American Environmental Regulations, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

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The Eu's New Impact On American Environmental Regulation, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

Due to its increasing size and growing regulatory momentum, the European Union is quickly becoming an alternative power center to the United States in the field of environmental policy. Within the past several years, there has consequently been an emerging and discernible trend of EU policy and law on the environmental laws and policy of United States. This piece explores the new European chemicals legislation on Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) as one example of this back impact. Because REACH will affect virtually all multinational corporations, its impacts will be global, including the United States. The article explores …

Contributing Author, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

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Environmental Law And Policy: Nature, Law, And Society, David Wirth, Zygmunt Plater

David A. Wirth

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Unilateral Trade-Based Measures For Protection Of The Marine Environment: A Legal And Policy Perspective, David Wirth, Douglas Caldwell

David A. Wirth

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Precaution In International Environmental Policy And United States Law And Practice, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

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International Law, Ground Water Resources, And The Danube Dam Case, Gabriel Eckstein, Yoram Eckstein

Gabriel Eckstein

International water law is generally applied to disputes between states concerning surface bodies of water crossing international borders. Disputes and policy-making over transboundary ground water resources, however, have traditionally been determined on an ad hoc basis or based on regional custom. This disparate treatment stems primarily from the misunderstood nature of ground water and its relationship to surface water among government officials, policy-makers, jurists, and others. The result often has been the degradation of subsurface waters on both sides of political boundaries, and unwittingly, of numerous international surface bodies of water.

International concern over regional and global availability and quality …

Environmental Reform Of The Multilateral Development Banks, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

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International Technology Transfer And Environmental Impact Assessment, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

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Greenhouse Implications Of Energy Policies Of Multilateral Development Institutions, David Wirth

David A. Wirth

No abstract provided.