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Property Constructs And Nature's Challenge To Perpetuity, Jessica Owley Jul 2014

Property Constructs And Nature's Challenge To Perpetuity, Jessica Owley

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Published as Chapter 4 in Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature: a Constructivist Approach, Keith H. Hirokawa, ed.


Order And Disorder In The Urban Forest: A Foucauldian-Latourian Perspective, Irus Braverman Jul 2014

Order And Disorder In The Urban Forest: A Foucauldian-Latourian Perspective, Irus Braverman

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Published as Chapter 9 in Urban Forests, Trees, and Greenspace: A Political Ecology Perspective, L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian & Sadia Butt, eds.

We pass by street trees everyday. Their existence as well as their particular location in the city seems obvious, innocuous, natural. But, as is the case with most taken-for-granted "things" (Brown, 2011), some excavation is bound to reveal a more complicated and even ideological story. This study focuses on such a story: the story of the clandestine governance of nature and of humans by way of nature - all through the construction and regulation of city street …


Constitutional Limitations On Sovereignty, 2014 Edition, Garrett Power Jun 2014

Constitutional Limitations On Sovereignty, 2014 Edition, Garrett Power

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This is an “open content” casebook intended for classroom use in courses in Constitutional Law, Land Use Control, and Environmental Law. It consists of 130 odd judicial opinions (most rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court) carefully selected from the two hundred years of American constitutional history which address the clash between public sovereignty and private property. The text considers both the personal right to liberty and the personal right in property.

The readings provide an historical context, and an up-to-date focus on many of the constitutional issues facing today’s Supreme Court: imperium versus dominium; the public trust, inverse condemnation, the …