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Reformulating Executive And Legislative Relationships After Reformulated Gasoline: What's Best For Trade And The Environment?, Scott Daniel Mcbride

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Ranking The Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, And Land Use Planning Journals: A Survey Of Expert Opinion, Gregory Scott Crespi

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Fulbright Report Of Organization For Security And Cooperation (Osce) Regional Research Program, David A. Wirth

David A. Wirth

Report on activities conducted with Fulbright support from 1996 to 1997.

Newgarth Revisited: Mrs. Robinson's Case, Alexander M. Sanders Jr.

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Butterflies, Cave Spiders, Milk-Vetch, Bunchgrass, Sedges, Lilies, Checker-Mallows And Why The Prohibition Against Judicial Balancing Of Harm Under The Endangered Species Act Is A Good Idea, Federico Cheever

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Touch And Concern Is Dead: Long Live The Doctrine, A. Dan Tarlock

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Touch And Concern Is Dead: Long Live The Doctrine, A. Dan Tarlock

Dan Tarlock

No abstract provided.

Comparative Environmental Law Perspectives On Legal Regimes For Sustainable Development, Nicholas A. Robinson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

As the world's largest summit meeting ended in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the heads of state and their representatives assembled at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), commonly referred to as Agenda 21. They embraced Agenda 21 as “a dynamic programme” which can “evolve over time in the light of changing needs and circumstances,” and as a process making “the beginning of a new global partnership for sustainable development.” Agenda 21 is premised on two factual perspectives. First, the documentation of trends in the deterioration of the environmental conditions in many parts of the world is …

Building A Better Mousetrap: A New Approach To Trying Mass Tort Cases, Richard O. Faulk

Richard Faulk

For many years, both state and federal courts have struggled with the extraordinarily difficult problems raised by mass tort litigation. In an effort to resolve these controversies, the courts have resorted to increasingly creative procedures -- with mixed results. Courts have tried class certification in various forms, consolidation on a "controversy by controversy" basis or on the basis of "common issues," and bellwether trials with smaller groups of plaintiffs selected by varying procedures. These creative techniques have been employed in the interest of achieving results and ending the controversies expeditiously. Unfortunately, in pursuing those goals, each technique has collided, in …

Sustainable Development As A Framework For National Governance, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.

Reflections On Comparative Law, Environmental Law, And Sustainability, John C. Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.

Special Committee On Climate Change And Sustainable Development: 1997 Annual Report, David R. Hodas

David R. Hodas

No abstract provided.

Reducing Nitrogen Pollution On Long Island Sound: Is There A Place For Pollutant Trading?, Ann Powers

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The purpose of this article is to examine the legal adequacy of proposals now under consideration for a nitrogen trading program on Long Island Sound, and to assess the likelihood of success in light of the experience with other trading programs, both for water and air pollution. Part I outlines the current environmental condition of Long Island Sound and explains the factors which have led proponents of trading to believe such a program could be effective. In Part II we consider the essential elements of a trading program, and the lessons to be learned from the Clean Air Act programs. …

The 'Ascent Of Man': Legal Systems And The Discovery Of An Environmental Ethic, Nicholas A. Robinson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

A decade ago, firefighters in a warehouse on the Rhine in Switzerland washed chemicals, solvents, and mercury into the river, destroying all life in the river for miles, killing millions of fish, and endangering the water supplies of cities in Germany and the Netherlands. This tragedy galvanized the river valley states into action. They vowed to clean up the river, not just from that incident but from the effects of having used the river as a sewer for two centuries. But how clean is clean? The goal for this calculated plan, which will take decades to achieve, is symbolized by …

Methods For Teaching Environmental Law: Some Thoughts On Providing Access To The Environmental Law System, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

This article surveys methods that could improve the effectiveness of environmental legal education. I propose that approaches to teaching environmental law be viewed in two ways; first, as a substantive course in which students gain access to a complex system of law, and second, as a substantive base for teaching students skills of legal process. Within both possibilities, I focus on the value of teaching students to understand the environmental law system. Instructors can introduce students to the environmental law system by looking at a few of the major environmental statutes in relative depth, or as they apply to specific …

Coastal Marine Science For Law And Business Students: Preparing Law And Business Professionals To Make "Informed Decisions" About Coastal Issues, David H. Niebuhr, Lynda L. Butler, Don Rahtz, Britt E. Anderson, April N. Lawrence

Faculty Publications

The rigors of employment-directed undergraduate education. and decreased emphasis on "Liberal Arts" studies occurring at some colleges and universities has left many graduates with a level of scientific understanding which is inadequate to make infonned choices about issues which effect the environment. To address this lack of scientific understanding. the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Virginia) and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, with the Marshall-Wythe School of Law and the School of Business Administration of the College of William and Mary are developing a Coastal Ecosystem Science Program to teach future law and business professionals the basics of …

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 …

The Role Of Law In Defining Sustainable Development: Nepa Reconsidered, David R. Hodas

David R. Hodas

No abstract provided.

Foreword, David R. Hodas

David R. Hodas

No abstract provided.

Trade Implications Of The Basel Convention Amendment Banning North-South Trade In Hazardous Wastes, David A. Wirth

David A. Wirth

No abstract provided.