Opening The Barnyard Door: Transparency And The Resurgence Of Ag-Gag & Veggie Libel Laws,
2015
Seattle University School of Law
Opening The Barnyard Door: Transparency And The Resurgence Of Ag-Gag & Veggie Libel Laws, Nicole E. Negowetti
Seattle University Law Review
Over the past several decades, as the agricultural system became increasingly industrialized and the steps from farm to plate multiplied, consumers became farther removed from the sources of their food. Until recently, most consumers in America were content to eat their processed, cheap, and filling foods without giving a second thought to how these foods were produced. The tides are changing. Increasingly, consumers are calling for more transparency in the food system. Repulsed by images of animal cruelty and shocked by unsavory food production practices, consumers want the food industry’s veil lifted and are demanding changes in food production. The …
The Dangerous Right To Food Choice,
2015
Seattle University School of Law
The Dangerous Right To Food Choice, Samuel R. Wiseman
Seattle University Law Review
Scholars, advocates, and interest groups have grown increasingly concerned with the ways in which government regulations—from agricultural subsidies to food safety regulations to licensing restrictions on food trucks—affect access to local food. One argument emerging from the interest in recent years is that choosing what foods to eat, what I have previously called “liberty of palate,” is a fundamental right. The attraction is obvious: infringements of fundamental rights trigger strict scrutiny, which few statutes survive. As argued elsewhere, the doctrinal case for the existence of such a right is very weak. This Essay does not revisit those arguments, but instead …
Ag Gag Past, Present, And Future,
2015
Seattle University School of Law
Ag Gag Past, Present, And Future, Justin F. Marceau
Seattle University Law Review
While the animal rights and food justice movements are relatively young, their political unpopularity has generated a steady onslaught of legislation designed to curtail their effectiveness. At each stage of their nascent development, these movements have confronted a new wave of criminal or civil sanctions carefully tailored to combat the previous successes the movements had achieved.
Re-Tooling Marine Food Supply Resilience In A Climate Change Era: Some Needed Reforms,
2015
Seattle University School of Law
Re-Tooling Marine Food Supply Resilience In A Climate Change Era: Some Needed Reforms, Robin Kundis Craig
Seattle University Law Review
Ocean fisheries and marine aquaculture are an important but often overlooked component of world food security. For example, of the seven billion (and counting) people on the planet, over one billion depend on fish as their primary source of protein, and fish is a primary source of protein (30 percent or more of protein consumed) in many countries around the world, including Japan, Greenland, Taiwan, Indonesia, several countries in Africa, and several South Pacific island nations. Marine fisheries and marine aquaculture have been subject to a number of stressors that can undermine world food security, including overfishing, habitat destruction, and …
Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain: Concealment, Revelation, And The Question Of Food Safety,
2015
Seattle University School of Law
Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain: Concealment, Revelation, And The Question Of Food Safety, Denis W. Stearns
Seattle University Law Review
Despite knowledge that commerce in food is a profit-driven enterprise, the public has consistently put great faith in the wholesomeness and safety of the food being purchased. To some extent, such faith is necessary, even if not always justified. In making the decision to put a bite of food in one’s own mouth, or the mouth of a friend or family member, a form of faith or trust must accompany the act of eating. For who would knowingly eat food suspected to be unsafe? But that is precisely what millions of people do every year, with a great many of …
Hyperlegality And Heightened Surveillance: The Case Of Threatened Species Lists,
2015
University at Buffalo School of Law
Hyperlegality And Heightened Surveillance: The Case Of Threatened Species Lists, Irus Braverman
Journal Articles
My contribution to the Debate "Thinking about Law and Surveillance" focuses on the project of governing nonhuman species through care, briefly pointing to how law and surveillance are interwoven in this context and to how conservation's biopolitical regimes are increasingly becoming more abstract, standardized, calculable, and algorithmic in scope. I argue that conservation’s focus on governing through care lends itself to heightened modes of surveillance and to hyperlegality - namely, to the intensified inspection and regulation of both governed and governing actors. I start with some preliminary explanations about my atypical use of the terms surveillance, law, and biopolitics.
Newsroom: Logan On Bp Settlement,
2015
Roger Williams University
Newsroom: Logan On Bp Settlement, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Intellectual Property Rights In Virtual Environments: Considering The Rights Of Owners, Programmers And Virtual Avatars,
2015
The University of Akron
Intellectual Property Rights In Virtual Environments: Considering The Rights Of Owners, Programmers And Virtual Avatars, Woodrow Barfield
Akron Law Review
An emerging issue in online role-playing games is whether the licensor or participant owns the virtual property (such as a virtual avatar) created while the game is being played...Such rights have real world consequences for the objects created in the virtual world...Commercial software has been designed to allow people to create their own interactive, emoting 3D avatar using photographs of their individual faces, and their own unique voice as templates...Virtual environments can be designed for single inhabitants, such as a solo flight trainee, or for many, simultaneous participants... Further, people who spend significant amounts of time in virtual environments are …
To Transfer Or Not To Transfer, That Is The Question: An Analysis Of Public Lands Title In The West,
2015
University of Montana
To Transfer Or Not To Transfer, That Is The Question: An Analysis Of Public Lands Title In The West, Andrea Collins
Montana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Please Turn Your Lights Off, The Turtles Are Nesting: Ensuring That Federal, State, And Local Laws Help Guide Endangered Marine Turtle Hatchlings In Florida To The Right Source Of Light,
2015
Florida A&M University College of Law
Please Turn Your Lights Off, The Turtles Are Nesting: Ensuring That Federal, State, And Local Laws Help Guide Endangered Marine Turtle Hatchlings In Florida To The Right Source Of Light, Cameryn Justice Rivera
Student Works
In Florida, artificial lighting is a huge problem for marine turtle hatchlings and nesting mothers. Part I of this paper provides background information on sea turtle behavioral patterns in nesting and hatching, while also highlighting the problems of disorientation and nesting deterrence. Part II examines federal and state laws that authorize and delegate sea turtle oversight protections, administer legal and practical protection, and attempt to enforce the laws to prevent sea turtle disturbances or deaths. Part III discusses local ordinance regulations on artificial lighting and comments on the Model Lighting Ordinance in Florida. Part IV analyzes sea turtle law coordination …
The Damage From Mega-Sporting Events In Brazil,
2015
Pace University School of Law
The Damage From Mega-Sporting Events In Brazil, J. Justin Woods
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Student Publications
Over the past several years, Brazil’s federal government and the city and state governments of Rio de Janeiro have invested tens of billions of dollars to develop the transportation, stadium, tourist, communications and security infrastructure required to host the 2007 Pan American Games, 2014 World Cup, and 2016 Summer Olympics. As Brazil seeks to use these mega- sporting events to assert itself as a major economic player on the word stage, its strategy demonstrates how hosting mega-events serves to attract regional and global capital, and to reinforce unequal power structures at the expense of the public treasury, environmental quality and …
What Is A Pond? Michigan Court Of Appeals Interprets “Waters Of The State” Under Michigan Law,
2015
Wayne State University
What Is A Pond? Michigan Court Of Appeals Interprets “Waters Of The State” Under Michigan Law, Nick Schroeck, Justin Serk
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Response To Heather Gerken's Federalism And Nationalism: Time For A Détente?,
2015
Florida State University College of Law
Response To Heather Gerken's Federalism And Nationalism: Time For A Détente?, Erin Ryan
Scholarly Publications
No abstract provided.
Implementing A Carbon Tax In Florida Under The Clean Power Plan: Policy Considerations,
2015
Florida State University College of Law
Implementing A Carbon Tax In Florida Under The Clean Power Plan: Policy Considerations, Chris Hastings
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Koontz V. St. Johns River Water Management District: The Constitutionality Of Monetary Exactions In Land Use Planning,
2015
University of Montana
Koontz V. St. Johns River Water Management District: The Constitutionality Of Monetary Exactions In Land Use Planning, John M. Newman
Montana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Environmental Law, Eleventh Circuit Survey,
2015
University of Georgia
Environmental Law, Eleventh Circuit Survey, Travis M. Trimble
Scholarly Works
In 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, addressing an issue of first impression, rejected the district court's use of a Lone Pine case-management order as a means of testing the sufficiency of the plaintiffs' pleadings in a state law environmental torts case. The court also interpreted Florida law to mean that plaintiffs are not required to allege that groundwater contamination exceeded regulatory maximum contaminant levels for drinking water to maintain their claims and that they could recover "stigma" damages to their property without alleging actual contamination. The United States District Court for the Middle District …
Front Matter,
2015
University of New Mexico
Front Matter, Natural Resources Journal
Natural Resources Journal
No abstract provided.
Water 4.0: The Past, Present, And Future Of The World's Most Vital Resource By David Sedlak,
2015
University of New Mexico
Water 4.0: The Past, Present, And Future Of The World's Most Vital Resource By David Sedlak, Brian Smith
Natural Resources Journal
No abstract provided.
Water Ethics: A Values Approach To Solving The Water Crisis By David Groenfelt,
2015
University of New Mexico
Water Ethics: A Values Approach To Solving The Water Crisis By David Groenfelt, Robin James
Natural Resources Journal
No abstract provided.
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Transportation: Opportunities In The Northeast And Mid-Atlantic,
2015
University of New Mexico - School of Law
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Transportation: Opportunities In The Northeast And Mid-Atlantic, Gabriel Pacyniak
Faculty Scholarship
The report finds that clean transportation policies could cut greenhouse gas emissions between 29 to 40 percent in the TCI region by 2030. A comprehensive implementation of state policies could result in net cost savings of up to $72.5 billion over 15 years for businesses and consumers, along with tens of thousands of new jobs and improvements in public health.
