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Frostpaw Addresses Global Warming, William Snape Jan 2014

Frostpaw Addresses Global Warming, William Snape

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INTRODUCTION: Climate change impacts the law on many levels and in many ways. This Article asks a threshold question: what legal structures will most effectively reduce growing levels of anthropogenic greenhouse pollution? The answer is that an existing U.S. statute-the Clean Air Act-not only possesses clear commands to ratchet down greenhouse pollutants domestically, but also provides explicit authority to negotiate concomitant air pollution reduction with countries around the planet in a fair, transparent, and reciprocal fashion. Further, application of the Clean Air Act is consistent with other legal and policy tools to address global warming. This statute-based solution, while facially …


Health Law As Social Justice, Lindsay Wiley Jan 2014

Health Law As Social Justice, Lindsay Wiley

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Health law is in the midst of a dramatic transformation. From a relatively narrow discipline focused on regulating relationships among individual patients, health care providers, and third-party payers, it is expanding into a far broader field with a burgeoning commitment to access to health care and assurance of healthy living conditions as matters of social justice. Through a series of incremental reform efforts stretching back decades before the Affordable Care Act and encompassing public health law as well as the law of health care financing and delivery, reducing health disparities has become a central focus of American health law and …


Fracking As A Federalism Case Study, Amanda Leiter Jan 2014

Fracking As A Federalism Case Study, Amanda Leiter

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Utility Air Regulatory Group V. Epa: A Shot Across The Bow Of The Administrative State, Amanda Leiter Jan 2014

Utility Air Regulatory Group V. Epa: A Shot Across The Bow Of The Administrative State, Amanda Leiter

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