Pace Energy And Climate Center 2015 Annual Report, 2016 Pace University
Pace Energy And Climate Center 2015 Annual Report, Pace Energy & Climate Center
Environmental Law Program Publications @ Haub Law
In 2015, Pace Energy and Climate Center continued a 27-year tradition of successfully advancing clean energy policies and solutions in communities across the State of New York and the Northeast region, across the United States, and around the world. As a unique organization that operates at the boundaries between law, policy, business, and regulation, we continue to bring innovative thinking, strong analysis, technological understanding, and stakeholder engagement to the vital climate and energy challenges facing us today.
We have been pleased to become a key player in the New York Public Service Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (“REV”) initiative. REV …
Getches-Wilkinson Center Newsletter, Spring 2016, 2016 University of Colorado Law School
Getches-Wilkinson Center Newsletter, Spring 2016, University Of Colorado Boulder. Getches-Wilkinson Center For Natural Resources, Energy, And The Environment
Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment Newsletter (2013-)
No abstract provided.
Congress, Give Renewable Energy A Fair Fight: Passage Of The Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act Would Give Renewable Energy The Financial Footing Needed To Independently Succeed, 2016 Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Congress, Give Renewable Energy A Fair Fight: Passage Of The Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act Would Give Renewable Energy The Financial Footing Needed To Independently Succeed, David C. Magagna
Villanova Environmental Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Natural Baselines For Wildfire Takings Claims, 2016 University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Natural Baselines For Wildfire Takings Claims, Justin Pidot
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Don't Eat The Brown Snow! Utilizing Wastewater For Artificial Snow: A Slippery Slope Between Protecting Skiers And Encouraging Water Reuse, 2016 Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Don't Eat The Brown Snow! Utilizing Wastewater For Artificial Snow: A Slippery Slope Between Protecting Skiers And Encouraging Water Reuse, Katie A. Duquette
Villanova Environmental Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Horne V. Department Of Agriculture: Expanding Per Se Takings While Endorsing State Sovereign Ownership Of Wildlife, 2016 University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Horne V. Department Of Agriculture: Expanding Per Se Takings While Endorsing State Sovereign Ownership Of Wildlife, John D. Echeverria, Michael C. Blumm
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Oil Under Troubled Waters?: Some Legal Aspects Of The Boundary Dispute Between Malawi And Tanzania Over Lake Malawi, 2016 Pennsylvania State University School of Law
Oil Under Troubled Waters?: Some Legal Aspects Of The Boundary Dispute Between Malawi And Tanzania Over Lake Malawi, Tiyanjana Maluwa
Michigan Journal of International Law
This article examines the legal aspects of the respective claims by the two claimants to the northeastern stretches of the lake: to the eastern shoreline by Malawi and to the median line by Tanzania. Maluwa proceeds as follows. First, the Article sketches out the historical and political background of the dispute and examines some preliminary legal issues in Part I. Part II discusses the legal significance of boundaries, state succession to boundary treaties, and the relevance of post-colonial African state practice in this respect. A central aspect of this practice is the adoption by African states of the principle of …
A Fracking Fragile Issue: Courts Continue To Tiptoe Around Subsurface Trespass Claims, 2016 Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
A Fracking Fragile Issue: Courts Continue To Tiptoe Around Subsurface Trespass Claims, Danielle Quinn
Villanova Environmental Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Assessing The Epa's Authority To Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under Clear Air Act Section 111(D) And The Clean Power Plan, 2016 Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Assessing The Epa's Authority To Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under Clear Air Act Section 111(D) And The Clean Power Plan, Rick A. Waltman
Villanova Environmental Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Aftermath Of Alt V. Epa: Unresolved Tensions In Poultry Farm Pollution Control, 2016 West Virginia University College of Law
The Aftermath Of Alt V. Epa: Unresolved Tensions In Poultry Farm Pollution Control, Alison Peck
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Agenda: A Celebration Of The Work Of Charles Wilkinson: Served With Tasty Stories And Some Slices Of Roast, 2016 University of Colorado Law School
Agenda: A Celebration Of The Work Of Charles Wilkinson: Served With Tasty Stories And Some Slices Of Roast, University Of Colorado Boulder. Getches-Wilkinson Center For Natural Resources, Energy, And The Environment
A Celebration of the Work of Charles Wilkinson (Martz Winter Symposium, March 10-11)
Conference held at the University of Colorado, Wolf Law Building, Wittemyer Courtroom, Thursday, March 10th and Friday, March 11th, 2016.
Conference moderators, panelists and speakers included University of Colorado Law School professors Phil Weiser, Sarah Krakoff, William Boyd, Kristen Carpenter, Britt Banks, Harold Bruff, Richard Collins, Carla Fredericks, Mark Squillace, and Charles Wilkinson
"We celebrate the work of Distinguished Professor Charles Wilkinson, a prolific and passionate writer, teacher, and advocate for the people and places of the West. Charles's influence extends beyond place, yet his work has always originated in a deep love of and commitment to particular places. We …
Coastal Conservation Association V. United States Department Of Commerce, 2016 Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Coastal Conservation Association V. United States Department Of Commerce, Taylor R. Thompson
Public Land & Resources Law Review
The Eastern Louisiana District Court upheld Amendment 40 to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council’s Reef Management Plan. The court held that the Gulf Council and the National Marine Fisheries Service’s proposed rule establishing fishing quotas for the red snapper met all of the statutory guidelines imposed under the Magnusson-Stevens Act.
Sustainable Development Goals: How Can The Mining Sector Contribute?, 2016 Columbia Law School, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Sustainable Development Goals: How Can The Mining Sector Contribute?, Lisa E. Sachs
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
In September 2015, the heads of 193 United Nations (UN) Member States adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. The agenda provides a successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals, which were adopted in 2000, with a view to ending poverty in all forms and dimensions, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for all.
A Silver Lining? Impact Of Commodity Price Fall On Good Governance In Sierra Leone, 2016 International Growth Center
A Silver Lining? Impact Of Commodity Price Fall On Good Governance In Sierra Leone, Herbert M'Cleod, Nicolas Maennling, Lisa E. Sachs
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
From 2002 to 2013, resource-rich countries in Africa enjoyed the benefits of a commodity boom, using increased revenues to embark on major infrastructure projects in roads, rail, ports, and housing. But when commodity prices fell starting in 2011 (see figure below), public sector revenues took a major hit with private sector companies scaling back operations, delaying investment decisions and suspending unprofitable operations. Especially as the number and size of investments in the sector contracted, Governments felt increased pressure to collect, manage and spend those revenues more efficiently. As a result, the fall in commodity prices and mounting economic pressure actually …
Corporate Agricultural Investment And The Right To Food: Addressing Disparate Protections And Promoting Rights-Consistent Outcomes, 2016 Columbia Law School, Columbia Center on Sustainable Development
Corporate Agricultural Investment And The Right To Food: Addressing Disparate Protections And Promoting Rights-Consistent Outcomes, Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Anna Bulman
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Over the past decade, the world has witnessed heightened corporate interest in large-scale land-based agricultural investment. While such investments can potentially have positive effects for local communities, they also can have wide-ranging negative impacts on human rights, including through forced displacement and the loss of livelihoods. This Article examines the impact of large-scale corporate agricultural investment on the right to food, as well as on human rights more generally. It considers the protections offered by the investment and human rights legal regimes to both corporations and individuals, including recent international developments relating to transnational corporate accountability and efforts to integrate …
Land Deal Dilemmas: Grievances, Human Rights, And Investor Protections, 2016 Columbia Law School, Columbia Center on Sustainable Development
Land Deal Dilemmas: Grievances, Human Rights, And Investor Protections, Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Lise Johnson, Sam Szoke-Burke
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Land-based investments can create significant grievances for local individuals or communities, and host governments seeking to address those grievances must navigate a complicated landscape of legal obligations and pragmatic considerations. This report, funded by UK aid from the Department for International Development, focuses on practical solutions for governments confronting grievances that arise from large-scale investments in agricultural or forestry projects.
The report considers such solutions in the context of governments’ legal obligations, particularly those imposed by international investment law, international human rights law, and investor-state contracts. Understanding the implications of this diverse range of legal obligations is particularly important in …
Guide To Land Contracts: Agricultural Projects, 2016 Columbia Law School, Columbia Center on Sustainable Development
Guide To Land Contracts: Agricultural Projects, International Senior Lawyers Project, Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Sam Szoke-Burke
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Agricultural investment contracts can be complex, with complicated provisions that are difficult to understand. This Guide provides explanations for a range of common provisions, and includes a Glossary of legal and technical terms. It assists non-lawyers in better understanding agricultural investment contracts, such as those available on the Open Land Contracts repository.
The Guide was prepared by International Senior Lawyers Project staff and volunteers in collaboration with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.
Periodic Review In Natural Resource Contracts, 2016 University of Melbourne
Periodic Review In Natural Resource Contracts, Jacky Mandelbaum, Salli Anne Swartz, John Hauert
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Periodic contract review mechanisms, which are provisions in contracts that formally require parties to meet at particular intervals to review the terms of the contract, are mechanisms that may facilitate the process of negotiating contractual changes to accommodate changing circumstances over the term of extractive industries contracts. Through the review of existing extractive industries agreements, this article considers how such review mechanisms have been incorporated into existing contracts and the use of such mechanisms as a tool for maintaining good relationships between the parties. In addition, the article suggests a new approach to the drafting of these mechanisms by negotiating …
Land Deals And The Law: Grievances, Human Rights, And Investor Protections, 2016 Columbia Law School, Columbia Center on Sustainable Development
Land Deals And The Law: Grievances, Human Rights, And Investor Protections, Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Lise Johnson, Sam Szoke-Burke
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
Land-based investments can create significant grievances for local individuals or communities, and host governments seeking to address those grievances must navigate a complicated landscape of legal obligations and pragmatic considerations. This briefing note, funded by UK aid from the Department for International Development, focuses on practical solutions for governments confronting grievances that arise from large-scale investments in agricultural or forestry projects. It accompanies a more in depth report on similar issues, entitled "Land Deal Dilemmas: Grievances, Human rights, and Investor Protections."
The briefing note considers such solutions in the context of governments’ legal obligations, particularly those imposed by international investment …
Thawing Out: The Role Of The Arctic Council Service In A Melting Arctic, 2016 Salve Regina University
Thawing Out: The Role Of The Arctic Council Service In A Melting Arctic, Taylor J. Enos
Pell Scholars and Senior Theses
With the changing natural and political climate of the Arctic, conflicts over resource extraction and navigation will become inevitable. Empowering an intergovernmental institution like the Arctic Council Service may be the only solution. This paper analyzes the importance and history of the Arctic as a political environment, which is prone to abuse in the very near future at the hands of Russia and the United States.