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Full-Text Articles in Environmental Law
The Political Economy Of Wto Exceptions, Timothy Meyer
The Political Economy Of Wto Exceptions, Timothy Meyer
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In a bid to save the planet from rising temperatures, the European Union is introducing a carbon border adjustment mechanism-essentially a levy on imports from countries with weak climate rules. The United States, Canada, and Japan are all openly mulling similar proposals. The Biden Administration is adopting new Buy American rules, while countries around the world debate new supply chain regulations to address public health issues arising from COVID-19 and shortages in critical components like computer chips. These public policy initiatives-addressing the central environmental, public health, and economic issues of the day-all likely violate World Trade Organization (WTO) rules governing …
Micro-Offsets And Macro-Transformation: An Inconvenient View Of Climate Change Justice, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Brooke A. Ackerly, Fred E. Forster
Micro-Offsets And Macro-Transformation: An Inconvenient View Of Climate Change Justice, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Brooke A. Ackerly, Fred E. Forster
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
We have been asked to examine climate change justice by discussing the methods of allocating the costs of addressing climate change among nations. Our analysis suggests that climate and justice goals cannot be achieved by better allocating the emissions reduction burdens of current carbon mitigation proposals — there may be no allocation of burdens using current approaches that achieves both climate and justice goals. Instead, achieving just the climate goal without exacerbating justice concerns, much less improving global justice, will require focusing on increasing well-being and inducing fundamental changes in development patterns to generate greater levels of well-being with reduced …
Transnational Alignment Of Nongovernmental Organizations For Global Environmental Action, Maria Garner
Transnational Alignment Of Nongovernmental Organizations For Global Environmental Action, Maria Garner
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Note proposes an alternative to the current international legal system for addressing the worldwide environmental crisis. The author describes the conditions of the environment and argues that the current legal system is incapable of responding to the already severe global environmental crisis. The author suggests that a network of environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can obtain results that are currently beyond the capabilities of either individual states or traditional international organizations. The main function of this type of network would be to collect and disseminate information to facilitate environmental action. The author also proposes a specific construction for an environmental …
Book Reviews, Robert Belton (Reviewer), Dr. Nasrollah S. Fatemi (Reviewer), Ann L. Hollick (Reviewer)
Book Reviews, Robert Belton (Reviewer), Dr. Nasrollah S. Fatemi (Reviewer), Ann L. Hollick (Reviewer)
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Book Reviews ================
Equal Employment Policy for Women: Strategies for Implementation in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe
Ronnie Steinberg Ratner, ed.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press. Pp. xxii, 520
Reviewed by Robert Belton
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The Host State of Transnational Corporations
Juha Kuusi
England: Saxon House. 1978. Pp. 117. $25.25
Reviewed by Dr. Nasrollah S. Fatemi
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The Enclosure of Ocean Resources: Economics and the Law of the Sea
Ross D. Eckert
Stanford: Hoover Institution. 1979.Pp. xvi, 390. $16.95
Reviewed by Ann L. Hollick