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Judges' Bench Memorandum: Sixteenth Annual Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, Kirstin Etela Jun 2004

Judges' Bench Memorandum: Sixteenth Annual Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, Kirstin Etela

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.


Best Overall Brief: Sixteenth Annual Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, Noah Anstraus, Louise Melchor, Jennifer Sosa Jun 2004

Best Overall Brief: Sixteenth Annual Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, Noah Anstraus, Louise Melchor, Jennifer Sosa

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.


Best Brief For Appellant New Union Fly Fisherman's Federation, Inc.: Sixteenth Annual Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, Kathy A. Reichbach, Nicole S. Zellweger Jun 2004

Best Brief For Appellant New Union Fly Fisherman's Federation, Inc.: Sixteenth Annual Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, Kathy A. Reichbach, Nicole S. Zellweger

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.


Best Brief For Intervenor United States: Sixteenth Annual Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, Douglas Chartier, Richard Lee, Erica Tennyson Jun 2004

Best Brief For Intervenor United States: Sixteenth Annual Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, Douglas Chartier, Richard Lee, Erica Tennyson

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Iucn Academy Of Environmental Law: Seeking Legal Underpinnings For Sustainable Development, Nicholas A. Robinson Jan 2004

The Iucn Academy Of Environmental Law: Seeking Legal Underpinnings For Sustainable Development, Nicholas A. Robinson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

An article describing a “work in progress” can provide only a sketch of the initial plans for the new IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. As the Academy establishes its administrative secretariat, builds its research program, and fashions its collaborative teaching undertakings, the details of this further work will become clear. Their analysis must await the events. Nonetheless, the precedents to date portend a promising future, as illustrated by the launch in Shanghai, and the Academy's initial research into the environmental sustainability of contemporary energy law.


Tribal Sovereignty Over Water Quality, Jessica Owley Lippmann Jan 2004

Tribal Sovereignty Over Water Quality, Jessica Owley Lippmann

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Exacted Conservation Easements: The Hard Case Of Endangered Species Protection, Jessica Owley Lippmann Jan 2004

Exacted Conservation Easements: The Hard Case Of Endangered Species Protection, Jessica Owley Lippmann

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Harnessing The Treaty Power In Support Of Environmental Regulation Of Activities That Don't "Substantially Affect Interstate Commerce", Katrina Fischer Kuh Jan 2004

Harnessing The Treaty Power In Support Of Environmental Regulation Of Activities That Don't "Substantially Affect Interstate Commerce", Katrina Fischer Kuh

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article proposes a framework for applying the treaty power that would accomplish the goal of environmental regulation. This framework would be applied where the President has signed, and Congress has ratified, a treaty and Congress has enacted domestic legislation in some way satisfying the goals or requirements of the treaty. Under this framework, the inquiry into whether the treaty power could appropriately be used by Congress in excess of its Article I, Commerce Clause powers would be indexed to the strength of (1) the contract-like nexus between the necessarily reciprocal requirements and the goals of the treaty and the …


The Law Of Words: Standing, Environment, And Other Contested Terms, David N. Cassuto Jan 2004

The Law Of Words: Standing, Environment, And Other Contested Terms, David N. Cassuto

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc., 528 U.S. 167 (2000), exposes fundamental incoherencies within environmental standing doctrine, even while it ostensibly makes standing easier to prove for plaintiffs in environmental citizen suits. According to Laidlaw, an environmental plaintiff needs only to show personal injury to satisfy Article III's standing requirement; she need not show that the alleged statutory violation actually harms the environment. This Article argues that Laidlaw's distinction between injury to the plaintiff and harm to the environment is nonsensical. Both the majority and dissent in Laidlaw incorrectly assume that there exists an objective …


Theme And Variations In Statutory Preclusions Against Successive Environmental Enforcement Actions By Epa And Citizens, Part One: Statutory Bars In Citizen Suit Provisions, Jeffrey G. Miller Jan 2004

Theme And Variations In Statutory Preclusions Against Successive Environmental Enforcement Actions By Epa And Citizens, Part One: Statutory Bars In Citizen Suit Provisions, Jeffrey G. Miller

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This two-part Article examines the preclusion device, its legislative history, and the decisions interpreting it. Part One examines the device in citizen suit provisions. Part Two, to be published subsequently, will examine the device in EPA enforcement provisions. The two parts develop a unified interpretation of the device in both sets of enforcement provisions to resolve the tension between achieving compliance and protecting prosecutorial discretion. The Article concludes that Congress meant exactly what it wrote and enacted: the device solely precludes the successive enforcement it actually addresses. Several of the most common canons of statutory interpretation lead inexorably to this …


Development Agreements: Bargained-For Zoning That Is Neither Illegal Contract Nor Conditional Zoning, Shelby D. Green Jan 2004

Development Agreements: Bargained-For Zoning That Is Neither Illegal Contract Nor Conditional Zoning, Shelby D. Green

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article explores the new model of land use decision-making that is based upon bargaining with the landowner. The fact of a bargain raises the issue of whether such bargaining amounts to “contract zoning” based upon a bilateral contract between the municipality and the landowner, which is largely held to be illegal, or a related form of bargaining, not involving an exchange of promises in the context of a bilateral agreement--“conditional zoning.” Part II of this Article discusses the emergence of the development agreement, which involves a contract with a municipality and the developer under which the developer is assured …