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An Examination Of The European Advertising Standards Alliance: The Relationship Between Uncertainty Avoidance And Children's Online Advertising Regulation Code., Nathan Evans
Annual Research Symposium of the College of Communication and Information
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Historic Wetland Signature Determination Using Esri Arcgis To Correlate Spectral Signature To Lidar In Relation To Hydrologic Change Within The Lower Santee River Watershed To Help Support Litigation Involving Riverine Flooding In Federal Cases 2:93-3077-23, 2:97-0673-23, & 2:03-0934-23, Stephen G. Williams, Steven G. Strickland, J Edward Bell
Historic Wetland Signature Determination Using Esri Arcgis To Correlate Spectral Signature To Lidar In Relation To Hydrologic Change Within The Lower Santee River Watershed To Help Support Litigation Involving Riverine Flooding In Federal Cases 2:93-3077-23, 2:97-0673-23, & 2:03-0934-23, Stephen G. Williams, Steven G. Strickland, J Edward Bell
S.C. Water Resources Conference
2012 S.C. Water Resources Conference - Exploring Opportunities for Collaborative Water Research, Policy and Management
Beyond The Red, Purple, And Blue: Election Law Issues In 2012, Keesha M. Gaskins, Stephen F. Huefner, Joshua N. Lief, Michael J. Pitts, Jocelyn F. Benson, Joshua A. Douglas, Rebecca Green, Dale Ho, Michael P. Mcdonald, Donald Palmer, Rob Richie
Beyond The Red, Purple, And Blue: Election Law Issues In 2012, Keesha M. Gaskins, Stephen F. Huefner, Joshua N. Lief, Michael J. Pitts, Jocelyn F. Benson, Joshua A. Douglas, Rebecca Green, Dale Ho, Michael P. Mcdonald, Donald Palmer, Rob Richie
University of Richmond Law Review Symposium
The Symposium Welcome was given by Clint A. Nichols, the Allen Chair Editor for the University of Richmond Law Review, and Wendy C. Perdue, Dean & Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law.
The “Get out the vote?” session was presented by Keesha M. Gaskins, Senior Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University; Steven F. Huefner, Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law; Joshua N. Lief, Senior Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia; and Michael J. Pitts, Professor of Law …
The Administration Of A Republican Form Of Government (Enforcement), Edward B. Foley, Richard L. Hasen, Edwin Bender, Laughlin Mcdonald, Andrew King-Ries
The Administration Of A Republican Form Of Government (Enforcement), Edward B. Foley, Richard L. Hasen, Edwin Bender, Laughlin Mcdonald, Andrew King-Ries
Browning Symposia & Lectures
Panel on enforcement.
Symposium Introduction & The Rules Of A Republican Form Of Government (Campaign Regulation), William P. Marshall, Richard Pildes, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Anthony Johnstone
Symposium Introduction & The Rules Of A Republican Form Of Government (Campaign Regulation), William P. Marshall, Richard Pildes, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Anthony Johnstone
Browning Symposia & Lectures
Symposium Introduction by Anthony Johnstone.
Panel on campaign regulation.
Keynote Address: On What Being A (Small R) Republican Means, Lawrence Lessig
Keynote Address: On What Being A (Small R) Republican Means, Lawrence Lessig
Browning Symposia & Lectures
Keynote Address by Professor Lawrence Lessig to the Montana Law Review’s Honorable James R. Browning Symposium on Election Law, The State of the Republican Form of Government in the States: Debating Democracy’s Future, held at The University of Montana School of Law on September 27, 2012.
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and founder of Rootstrikers, a network of activists leading the fight against government corruption. He has authored numerous books, including Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Our …
Law Library Documentary Film Collection Pamphlet, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law
Law Library Documentary Film Collection Pamphlet, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law
Public Interest Law Film Festival
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Sustainable Regional Legal Experiences In Biotechnology In The European Union, Claudia Colmenarez Ortiz
Sustainable Regional Legal Experiences In Biotechnology In The European Union, Claudia Colmenarez Ortiz
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Genetic modification in plant cells in the early 80´s allowed Biotechnology to introduce characteristics in plants creating stronger crops (compared to the ones created by conventional breeding) to be used in different sectors: Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Production and Industry. A new technology was developed to face the upcoming global challenges: climate change, overpopulation, erosion, and a new socio-economic environment.
This new technology is subject to international regulations to ensure environmental sustainability of crop production on the basis of which genetically modified organisms have to be assessed for safety before being released in to the environment or on the market. Although …
Risk Governance Of Genetically Modified Organisms In Europe And China, Wen Xiang
Risk Governance Of Genetically Modified Organisms In Europe And China, Wen Xiang
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Biotechnology may provide a variety of societal benefits but may also threaten established interests and values, and human and environmental well-being. The safety of GM crops and foods is an issue that causes great public concern and stringent regulation in European countries and several developing countries. Risk governance of GMOs is required to facilitate the commercialization of the biotechnology and also to act as a mechanism of controlling potential risk.
It is generally recognized that the governance shall be done on the basis of a risk analysis framework. Risk analysis can be broadly defined as an integrated process consisting of …
Counting Nature And The Nature Of Counting, Natasha Affolder
Counting Nature And The Nature Of Counting, Natasha Affolder
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Biodiversity protection is becoming increasingly reliant on metrics, lists, and indicators. Check the box approaches to taking biodiversity into account attempt to reduce complex concepts, and contested science, into simple standards, often translated into numerical representation. The acronyms alone associated with such attempts to numerically account for and prioritize nature are mind boggling even for the initiated: are habitats IBAs (Important Bird Areas), IPAs (Indigenous Protected Areas), AZE (Alliance for Zero Extinction) sites, KBAs (Key Biodiversity Areas)? List-based approaches dominate both international treaties (the World Heritage Convention, the Ramsar Convention, CITES) and leading international instruments such as the IUCN Red …
Is The Time Ripe For Binding Norms For Corporate Accountability?, Stephen Stec, Alexios Antypas, Magdalena Pakiewicz
Is The Time Ripe For Binding Norms For Corporate Accountability?, Stephen Stec, Alexios Antypas, Magdalena Pakiewicz
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
International voluntary corporate social responsibility initiatives such as international codes of conduct, non-financial reporting standards and governance principles have displayed an exponential growth trend in recent decades, in response to growing recognition of the need for a policy response to the harmful social and environmental effects of globalization. Corporate accountability was a major topic in 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, resulting in the strengthening of voluntary frameworks and the launching of several new voluntary initiatives. The expansion of the realm of corporate social responsibility, sustainability reporting and accountability through voluntary means has not, however, blunted …
Building Bridges Across Jurisdictional And Disciplinary Boundries: The Need For New Environmental Law Research Methods, Michelle Lim
Building Bridges Across Jurisdictional And Disciplinary Boundries: The Need For New Environmental Law Research Methods, Michelle Lim
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
In the past forty years the global population has doubled and global CO2 emissions have increased by 70%. Human induced change to ecosystems is more rapid and extensive than any comparable period in history. Current biodiversity loss exceeds that of the historical past by several orders of magnitude and shows no indication of slowing. Anthropogenic changes to ecosystems have contributed to improvements to human well-being and economic development. This has been achieved at growing costs in the form of the degradation of many ecosystem services. Population growth and economic development have intensified competition over natural resources worldwide.
Rapid increases in …
An Appraisal Of The International Governance Of Transboundary Movements Of Gmo's Twenty Years After Rio, Odile Lim Tung
An Appraisal Of The International Governance Of Transboundary Movements Of Gmo's Twenty Years After Rio, Odile Lim Tung
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Biotechnology or the engineering of the genetic material of species can give way to avenues of possibilities for the benefit of people, fauna and flora but also has the potential of untold and undiscovered threats to humanity and living organisms. One of the first attempts to legislate on international rules on biotechnology can be traced back to Article 19 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992. The CBD is indeed the first international legal instrument apart from the then European Community’s relevant directives to suggest that biotechnology is a matter of concern for the international community while providing …
Teaching Comparative Environmental Law From A Global Resources Perspective: Are National Environmental Laws Doing Their Job?, Lin Harmon
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Many environmental law courses provide instruction in national environmental laws and their application. Some environmental law courses compare one system of environmental law with another system to see what each system can learn from the other. Most recently, there has been a move towards a more global approach to comparative environmental law, looking at the global development of legal institutions and procedures in the enforcement of environmental statutes and regulations.
As the world faces increasingly difficult conditions with advancing climate change and ocean acidification, continuing loss of biological diversity, the growth of megacities, massive public health problems from pollution, and …
Critical Analysis Of The Contractual Commitment To Serve The Protection Of Ecological Services: Payments For Environmental Services, Alexandra Langlais
Critical Analysis Of The Contractual Commitment To Serve The Protection Of Ecological Services: Payments For Environmental Services, Alexandra Langlais
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
The contractual commitment is a tool now widely used in the environmental field. As part of payments for environmental services, this contractual obligation, however, raises many questions. These cover not only the legitimacy but also contractors and so intimately linked to the object of the contract, environmental services. Indeed, the provision of environmental services justifies financial rewards in return. Insofar as this concept of environmental services is uncertain because of a missing definition, it coexists with that of ecosystem services, environmental public goods, the subject of the contract and therefore its payment may appear questionable. Including the assumption that this …
Transnational Voluntary Climate Change Initiatives For Local Governments: Key Variables, Drivers, And Likely Effects, Stepan Wood, Kevin Thompson
Transnational Voluntary Climate Change Initiatives For Local Governments: Key Variables, Drivers, And Likely Effects, Stepan Wood, Kevin Thompson
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Local governments were among the first levels of government to develop and implement policies and measures to combat climate change. They remain in many respects at the forefront of climate policy. Since the early 1990s they have acted collectively to create transnational voluntary climate change initiatives, from the Europe-based Climate Alliance and EU Mayors’ Covenant to the global Cities for Climate Protection campaign and carbonn Cities Climate Registry. After more than two decades of experience with the oldest of these initiatives, it is somewhat surprising that these transnational local government climate initiatives have not received more attention in the scholarly …
Payment For Ecosystem Services In Brazil: Between Efficiency And Equity, Ana Maria Nusdeo, Ana Luiza Campos
Payment For Ecosystem Services In Brazil: Between Efficiency And Equity, Ana Maria Nusdeo, Ana Luiza Campos
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Brazil is characterized by a great richness of its biodiversity, the extension of its continental lands, a variety of economic and cultural condition on its different regions and a sociocultural diversity. All aspects contribute to the complexity of the environmental issue. Although such complexity deserves a special attention, the history of socio-environmental and economic public policies prove that such policies have not always accomplished good results, be it either because models of intense exploitation of natural resources have been adopted, disregarding biodiversity; or due to a poor view of regions as areas either to be occupied or preserved, disregarding its …
The Climate Change Cop 17 Debacle: Is This The Beginning Of The Failure Of International Environmental Diplomacy?, Tumai Murombo
The Climate Change Cop 17 Debacle: Is This The Beginning Of The Failure Of International Environmental Diplomacy?, Tumai Murombo
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Increasingly it is becoming apparent that addressing global environmental problems through international diplomacy is not working optimally. Through the lenses of the recent Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COPs 15-17) this paper will analyse international environmental diplomacy and assess the extent to which it has been useful in promoting the objectives of sustainable development. In particular it appears that progressively geopolitics is supplanting the underlying aim of international environmental law i.e. to deal with global environmental challenges. I conclude that there is a need for a rethink of how do we address global …
Australia's Brand New Clean Energy Legislation Package - How Can It Reduce Emissions?, Karen Bubna-Litic
Australia's Brand New Clean Energy Legislation Package - How Can It Reduce Emissions?, Karen Bubna-Litic
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
How does one effectively reduce greenhouse gases? Two ways of doing this is through either lowering the production of ghg’s through less activity, eg energy efficiency, or through the availability of substitutes that produce less ghg’s.
Currently we have a high demand for greenhouse gas producing activities. In simple terms increasing the price, say, of carbon through either a tax or cap and trade scheme can decrease demand. However, lessening demand is a complex proposition, depending on the elasticity of the product, the purchasing power of the consumer and the availability of substitutes. Energy efficiency and technical innovation are two …
Teaching The Art Of Environmental Diplomacy, Ann Powers
Teaching The Art Of Environmental Diplomacy, Ann Powers
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
International Environmental Law is a framework of obligations, measurable norms, and consultative procedures associated with elaborating these norms and facilitating their implementation. It is through the practice of multilateral environmental diplomacy that Nations primarily establish international environmental law. These multilateral negotiations take place in the General Assembly or the Economic & Social Council of the United Nations or in other treaty organizations, such as the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity or the World Conservation Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Such environmental diplomatic negotiations are on-going and …
International Environmental Law And Migration, Nicole De Moor
International Environmental Law And Migration, Nicole De Moor
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
The international community has long recognized that worldwide environmental changes affect national and international migration patterns. However, in 1992, the issue of environment-induced migration and displacement was not addressed as a major concern at the Rio Earth Summit. From the three new forums addressing environmental and development concerns, initiated in Rio, only the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) paid modest attention to environmental migration. Neither the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), nor the Biodiversity Convention (CBD), explicitly referred to the phenomenon of environment-induced human mobility.
However, since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighted migration and displacement as …
Co2 Emissions Trading And Emission Limit Values: Is Eu Environmental Law Restricting Member States To Act Against Climate Change?, Kars J. De Graaf
Co2 Emissions Trading And Emission Limit Values: Is Eu Environmental Law Restricting Member States To Act Against Climate Change?, Kars J. De Graaf
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
The competence to protect the environment in Europe could be described as a ‘shared’ competence. While the EU may adopt environmental directives on the basis of Article 192 TFEU (Treaty on the Functioning of the EU) that obligate Member States to implement them in their national legal order, Article 193 TFEU makes clear that the protective measures adopted pursuant to Article 192 TFEU shall not prevent any Member State from maintaining or introducing more stringent protective measures.
A cornerstone of the EU’s policy to combat climate change is the 2005 Emission Trading System Directive (ETS Directive). This system is an …
Eu Climate Law & Practice At The End Of The Kyoto Era: Unilateralism, Extraterritoriality And The Future Of Global Climate Change Governance, Lorenzo Schiano Di Pepe
Eu Climate Law & Practice At The End Of The Kyoto Era: Unilateralism, Extraterritoriality And The Future Of Global Climate Change Governance, Lorenzo Schiano Di Pepe
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
The European Union (EU) and its legal system have traditionally been at the forefront of the fight against anthropogenic climate change at the global level. This is particularly true today, when the international community is facing one of the most difficult passages of all times in this respect, due to the well-known difficulty in agreeing on a binding legal text to be applied once the first reference period established by the Kyoto Protocol will expire at the end of this year.
The above stalemate has caused individual States to resort to unilateralism, a move that in itself represents a regression …
Emerging Legal And Policy Strategies For Climate Change Adaptation: Opportunities And Constraints For Action In Africa, Emmanuel Kasimbazi
Emerging Legal And Policy Strategies For Climate Change Adaptation: Opportunities And Constraints For Action In Africa, Emmanuel Kasimbazi
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
The climate of the Africa is changing. When the climate started changing and when it will end is subject to endless debate. Climate is important for development in Africa but natural climate fluctuations from autonomous climate cycles (such as those linked to the El Nino phenomenon) disrupt ecological, economic and social systems. The causes of climate of change include: continued rates of high population growth, increasing reliance on fossil fuel-driven growth technologies, land use effects, (particularly urbanization, agriculture and deforestation) and increases in concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) and aerosols. Climate change in Africa has several effects. There are …
Can Carbon Trading & Carbon Tax Be Applied Simultaneously In China?, Ping Chen
Can Carbon Trading & Carbon Tax Be Applied Simultaneously In China?, Ping Chen
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
There is a growing debate between two competing climate change policy instruments – ‘cap and trade’ and ‘carbon tax’. Until now, both of them have worked well in different jurisdictions in order to reduce GHGs emissions. For those countries just consider to apply either of the two approaches like China, it is more convinced to recognize the advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches before making the choice.
The cap-and-trade system has been implemented by the European Union since 2005. The performance of EU cap-and-trade system shows many advantages. For instance, it can predict a clear environmental outcome by setting …
Legal Challenges In Promoting Sustainability- The Bioenergy Case, Helle Tegner Anker, Birgitte Egelund Olsen
Legal Challenges In Promoting Sustainability- The Bioenergy Case, Helle Tegner Anker, Birgitte Egelund Olsen
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Addressing climate concerns and reducing reliance on fossil fuels has been a broadly accepted sustainability objective for decades. But, to what extent are alternatives to fossil fuels sustainable in themselves and what are the different legal or regulatory challenges and options in ensuring a certain level of sustainability of such alternatives?
Bioenergy or biofuels, i.e. energy based on biological material (biomass) is often being promoted as an alternative to fossil fuels.[1] There are many different types of bioenergy determined either by the type of biomass (e.g. crops, wood or waste) or by the type or purpose of use (e.g. …
On The Improvement Of Bioenergy Law In China, Lei Guo
On The Improvement Of Bioenergy Law In China, Lei Guo
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
China has a long history of using bioenergy. But the utilization of modern bioenergy in China started late, and come up against the inferior of technology, the low level of industrialization and the imperfect laws and policies. During the 11th five-year plan for national economic and social development (2006-2010), Chinese government set up series of bioenergy development goals and obtained initial achievements in development of modern bioenergy, such as biomass power generation, liquid biofuels and biogas. Moreover, the latest 12th five-year plan (2011-2015) will further advance the use of bioenergy through the upcoming bioenergy plan which is included …
Shale Gas Development In Ukraine: Global Context Of The Problem And Prospect Of Regulation, Svitlana Romanko
Shale Gas Development In Ukraine: Global Context Of The Problem And Prospect Of Regulation, Svitlana Romanko
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Ukraine is widely believed to be one of Europe's largest holders of the new energy resource. But when working on problem, we also should take into account the experience of countries which succeed the shale gas production: USA, Canada and our neighboring countries in Europe – Poland and others.
According to experts, Ukraine may be in talks with foreign investors and to remind of shale gas. Ukraine during 2011 year agreed on cooperation with 21 companies in the production of hydrocarbons, particularly shale gas and coal bed methane. Ukrainian government is very interested in shale gas exploration but experts state …
Greening The Au Economy- Adapting To Climate Change Along A Low Carbon Development Pathway, Michelle Van Der Walt
Greening The Au Economy- Adapting To Climate Change Along A Low Carbon Development Pathway, Michelle Van Der Walt
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
According to the United Nations Human Development Report of 2007 climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. One of the major global contributors towards climate change is green house gas (GHG) emissions resulting from energy use connected with the combustion of fossil fuels. On account of its low per capita energy consumption, Africa contributes relatively little towards over-all energy related GHG emissions. Notwithstanding, the global effects of climate change will impact negatively on the developmental path of the African continent in areas such as agriculture; access to fresh water; biodiversity; food security and health thereby …
Environmental Protection And Sustainable Development In Developing Countries Post- Rio, Tumai Murombo
Environmental Protection And Sustainable Development In Developing Countries Post- Rio, Tumai Murombo
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Using South Africa as an example, this paper explores how environmental regulation has fared in a social and economic context where poverty alleviation, and socio-economic development are the top priorities of governments. While many developing countries have joined the bandwagon of environmental regulation to promote seemingly sustainable development, how to balance these inherently ‘conflicted' aspirations in practice remains a challenge. The paper explore various strategies for promoting sustainable development while conserving the environment such as environmental impact assessment, the use of framework legislation and assess the extent to which these are working in practice. The paper concludes by a radical …