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Masthead Dec 2014

Masthead

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Dec 2014

Front Matter

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.


Back Matter Dec 2014

Back Matter

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.


Our Global Commons, Brigham Daniels, James Salzman Dec 2014

Our Global Commons, Brigham Daniels, James Salzman

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Tragicomedy Of The Commons, Brigham Daniels Dec 2014

The Tragicomedy Of The Commons, Brigham Daniels

BYU Law Review

Scholarship on the commons focuses on a diverse set of problems, ranging from crashing fisheries to crowded court dockets. Because we find commons resources throughout our natural and cultural environments, understanding old lessons and learning new ones about the commons gives us leverage to address a wide range of problems. Because the list of resources identified as commons resources continues to grow, the importance of gleaning lessons about the commons will also continue to grow.

That being said, while the resources that make up the commons are certainly diverse, so too are the ways scholars depict it and the challenges …


Isolated Wetland Commons And The Constitution, Blake Hudson, Mike Hardig Dec 2014

Isolated Wetland Commons And The Constitution, Blake Hudson, Mike Hardig

BYU Law Review

Isolated wetlands provide great ecological and economic value to the United States. While some states provide protection for isolated wetlands, a great many do not. These wetlands are also left outside the ambit of federal wetland regulatory protections under the Clean Water Act, with its murky jurisdictional reach. Notwithstanding jurisdictional questions under current federal statutes, the U.S. Supreme Court has gone so far as to call into question the constitutionality of federal isolated wetland regulation. This Article makes a normative argument that, in the absence of state or local programs providing holistic isolated wetland protection, federal action is needed. The …


Agglomerama, Lee Anne Fennell Dec 2014

Agglomerama, Lee Anne Fennell

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Local Governments And Global Commons, Jonathan Rosenbloom Dec 2014

Local Governments And Global Commons, Jonathan Rosenbloom

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Texas Groundwater And Tragically Stable “Crossovers”, Zachary Bray Dec 2014

Texas Groundwater And Tragically Stable “Crossovers”, Zachary Bray

BYU Law Review

One recurring question in the academic literature on common-pool resources relates to the persistence of “tragic” commons regimes—systems that encourage, or at least tolerate, the inefficient, wasteful, hazardous, or unfair exploitation of a resource that is easily accessed for and diminished by individual use and consumption. Of course, not all commons are tragic: some common-pool resources invite individual access in efficient, fair, and durable ways. Yet many commonly held resources do lie under systems of governance that are not just tragic but persistently and stubbornly so. Often the tragic aspects of such commons regimes are well known; indeed, for some …


Naming The Tragedy, Eric T. Freyfogle Dec 2014

Naming The Tragedy, Eric T. Freyfogle

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Why Environmental Laws Fail, Jan G. Laitos, Lauren Joseph Wolongevicz Dec 2014

Why Environmental Laws Fail, Jan G. Laitos, Lauren Joseph Wolongevicz

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

Although governments have deployed an array of environmental protection laws, our planet continues to experience unprecedented environmental “crises,” including climate change, resource depletion, species extinction, ecosystem damage, and toxic air-water-land pollution. Despite universal acknowledgment and recognition of these serious environmental issues, and despite a growing list of laws designed to address these issues, the reality is that these adverse Earth-based environmental changes continue, and may even be worsening. Environmental protection laws have often failed because they usually include certain problematic characteristics: they are anthropocentric, in that their goal is to protect and benefit humans, not the environment in which humans …


Orchestrating Under Uncertainty: The Organization Of Sustainable Development At The United Nations, Philip A. Sandick Dec 2014

Orchestrating Under Uncertainty: The Organization Of Sustainable Development At The United Nations, Philip A. Sandick

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.


Navigating Through The Confusion Left In The Wake Of Rapanos: Why A Rule Clarifying And Broadening Jurisdiction Under The Clean Water Act Is Necessary, Kristen Clark Dec 2014

Navigating Through The Confusion Left In The Wake Of Rapanos: Why A Rule Clarifying And Broadening Jurisdiction Under The Clean Water Act Is Necessary, Kristen Clark

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.


Changing Lead Into Gold: Examining Agency Attempts To Use The Clean Water Act To Solve Ecosystem Degradation Issues, N. Lindsay Simmons Dec 2014

Changing Lead Into Gold: Examining Agency Attempts To Use The Clean Water Act To Solve Ecosystem Degradation Issues, N. Lindsay Simmons

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.


Managing The Risks Of Shale Gas Development Using Innovative Legal And Regulatory Approaches, Sheila Olmstead, Nathan Richardson Dec 2014

Managing The Risks Of Shale Gas Development Using Innovative Legal And Regulatory Approaches, Sheila Olmstead, Nathan Richardson

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

Booming production of oil and gas from shale enabled by hydraulic fracturing technology has led to tension between hoped-for economic benefits and feared environmental and other costs, with great associated controversy. Studies of how policy can best react to these challenges and how it can balance risk and reward have focused on prescriptive regulatory responses and, to a somewhat lesser extent, voluntary industry best practices. While there is undoubtedly room for improved regulation, innovative tools are relatively understudied. The liability system predates environmental regulation yet still plays an important—and in some senses predominant—role. Changes to that system, including burden-shifting rules …


Front Matter Sep 2014

Front Matter

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.


Masthead Sep 2014

Masthead

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.


Back Matter Sep 2014

Back Matter

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.


From The Editor-In-Chief, Ibrahim A. Baggili Jun 2014

From The Editor-In-Chief, Ibrahim A. Baggili

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

We are proud to share with you this special edition issue of the JDFSL. This year, JDFSL partnered with both the 6th International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) and Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE)–two prominent conferences in our field that were co-hosted. Fifty-three papers were submitted, and the Technical Program Committee accepted only 17 after a rigorous review process.


Back Matter Jun 2014

Back Matter

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Jun 2014

Front Matter

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.


Masthead Jun 2014

Masthead

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.


Local Land Trusts: A Comparative Analysis In Search Of An Improved Template For Land Trusts, Meagan Roach May 2014

Local Land Trusts: A Comparative Analysis In Search Of An Improved Template For Land Trusts, Meagan Roach

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.


Missed Opportunity: Excluding Carbon Emissions Markets From Comprehensive Oversight, Leo Mensah May 2014

Missed Opportunity: Excluding Carbon Emissions Markets From Comprehensive Oversight, Leo Mensah

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.


Geology, The Marcellus Shale, Experts, And Dispute Resolution, Itzchak E. Kornfeld Apr 2014

Geology, The Marcellus Shale, Experts, And Dispute Resolution, Itzchak E. Kornfeld

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Back Matter Mar 2014

Back Matter

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Mar 2014

Front Matter

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.


Masthead Mar 2014

Masthead

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

No abstract provided.


Introduction To Volume 6, Michael Sherr Jan 2014

Introduction To Volume 6, Michael Sherr

Journal of Adolescent and Family Health

Introduction to Volume 6


Adjudications, Brigette Buynak, Darcy S. Bushnell Jan 2014

Adjudications, Brigette Buynak, Darcy S. Bushnell

Water Matters!

Adjudications are lawsuits that take place in state or federal court to resolve all claims to water use in the state of New Mexico, including those of Pueblos, tribes and the federal government. These cases are required by statute to create a formal inventory of water uses and to facilitate administration of New Mexico’s surface and groundwater. The geographic scope of each case is generally described by a stream system and occasionally by a groundwater basin. By statute, the State is always the plaintiff. The mission is to formally identify and recognize all valid water rights in each area being …