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Environmental Law Slogans For The New Millenium, Michael Allan Wolf

University of Richmond Law Review

Contrary to the bleakest predictions offered by environmental fatalists during the latter half of the 1900s, humanity and much of the plant and animal kingdom survived New Year's Eve 1999. Similarly, contrary to the dire warnings of industrial organizations and lobbyists that overburdening environmental regulations would spell the end of profitable, American capitalism, the year 2000 dawned in the United States with the world's most extensive array of anti-pollution and pro-conservation measures regulating the globe's most impressive economic engines.

Highways And Bi-Ways For Environmental Justice, Richard J. Lazarus

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The purpose of this essay is to discuss the past, present, and future of the environmental justice movement as illustrated by the highway between Selma and Montgomery in Alabama and the highway system surrounding the City of Atlanta in neighboring Georgia. The essay is divided into three parts. The first part describes environmental justice, seeking both to place it in a broader historical perspective and to discuss how it relates to civil rights law and environmental law. The second part undertakes a closer examination of the challenges presented by efforts to fashion positive law to address environmental justice norms. This …

Is The Human Right To Environment Recognized Under International Law? It Depends On The Source, Luis E. Rodriguez-Rivera

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

International Environmental Dispute Resolution And The Need For Access By Non-State Entities, Peggy Rodgers Kalas

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Adr At The Environmental Protection Agency, Joel B. Eisen

Law Faculty Publications

This chapter examines how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods to help resolve complex environmental disputes. In recent years, the EPA's use of ADR has increased dramatically in a wide variety of settings. The EPA has made ADR a central feature of its environmental enforcement strategy, encouraged its use in Title VI and environmental justice conflict settings, and turned to negotiated rulemaking as an alternative to the cumbersome notice-and-comment process for development of new federal regulations. Other EPA programs, such as the Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative, promote nonadversarial methods for tackling complex environmental problems. …

South Camden And Environmental Justice: Substance, Procedure, And Politics, Jeffrey M. Gaba

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

Beyond Eco-Imperialism: An Environmental Justice Critique Of Free Trade, Carmen G. Gonzalez

Faculty Articles

The article contributes to the trade and environment literature by assessing the claim that industrialized country proposals to integrate environmental protection into the WTO trade regime constitute environmental imperialism - the imposition of industrialized country values and preferences on less powerful nations. This claim is usually based on two distinct premises. The first is that environmental protection is a luxury that poor countries can ill afford. The second is that wealthy countries have played a leadership role in the protection of the global environment. The article questions these assumptions. It argues that environmental protection is essential to well-being of the …

Our Better Half: A Public Interest Lawyer Reflects On Pro Bono Lawyering And Social Change Litigation, Martha F. Davis

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

Executive Orders And Presidential Commands: Presidents Riding To The Rescue Of The Environment, William H. Rodgers, Jr.

Articles

Presidential executive orders are legal and political documents. They are also uniquely personal utterances of the president and the administration. The right words at the appropriate time can motivate and move the human spirit, and they can link this president and this moment to the strongest of ideas. Being personal and tending to the heroic, the executive order can thus be perceived as accomplishing a great public good.

This article will explore the pros and cons of the executive order tool. I will then evaluate a number of executive orders that have impacted contemporary environmental policy. I will conclude by …

The Manipulation Of Indigenous Status: The Federal Government As Shape-Shifter, David E. Wilkins

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

"The federal-Indian relationship is like no other in the world. Indian tribes are denominated 'domestic-dependent nations' but their practical relationship with the United States 'resembles that of a ward to his guardian.' Indian tribes appear to have the same political status as the independent states of San Marino, Monaco, and Liechtenstein, yet they have little real self-government and seem to be forever mired in a state of political and economic pupilage."

This fifteen-year-old statement from Vine Deloria, Jr., the preeminent Indian political and legal scholar, still accurately reflects the convoluted nature of indigenous political, legal, and economic statuses in the …

Judicial Review Under Seqra: A Statistical Study, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

Nearly 2000 judicial opinions were issued under the State Environmental Quality Review Act ("SEQRA") between its enactment in 1975 and the end of 2000. Almost 700 were issued from 1990 (when the author began undertaking an annual review of SEQRA cases for the New York Law Journal) through 2000. These numbers are large enough to serve as a basis for a statistically valid review of case outcomes.

This article is divided into five parts. Part I presents statistics on the SEQRA cases. Part II reviews the history of how the Court of Appeals has decided SEQRA cases. Part III …

Reflections On Environmental Justice, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

Environmental justice is a very hot topic. Yesterday's New York Times on the front page of the Metropolitan section had a story stating: Mid-Sized Plants Headed to Poor Areas. The story stated, "The Pataki administration acknowledges in its own study that the electric generators that it wants to install around New York City would go into poor heavily minority communities, a finding that supports some of the arguments of the project's opponents. This is quoting an unreleased environmental justice analysis that may or may not be valid, but it certainly shows how hot a topic it is. This morning …

Genetic Testing For Susceptability To Disease From Exposure To Toxic Chemicals: Implications For Public And Worker Health Policies, Michael S. Baram

Faculty Scholarship

The Environmental Genome Program intends to identify "susceptibility genes" that would indicate if a person is more vulnerable to cancer or other disease as a result of exposure to certain chemicals in the workplace, the environment, foods, or other products. Research findings and the capability to test persons for such genes are likely to impugn and challenge health policies and regulatory programs that do not take genetic susceptibility into account when conferring health benefits and restricting chemical exposures. This article focuses on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and discusses four options available to this agency for protecting genetically …

Law's Disengaged Left, Gene R. Nichol

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Salt Equalizer, Vol. 2000, Issue 4, Society Of American Law Teachers

SALT Equalizer

Contents of this issue:

Eric S. Janus, A Focus on Access to the Legal Profession, at 1.

Carol Chomsky & Margaret Montoya, Presidents' Column, at 1.

Joan Howarth, Report from the Bar Exam Task Force, at 2.

Cover Conference Scheduled for March 2-4 in New Hampshire, at 3.

Jane Dolkart, Theresa Glennon & Peter Margulies, The Robert Cover Workshop, at 3.

Theresa Glennon & Peter Margulies, Improving Law School Admissions Now, at 3.

Sylvia A. Law, SALT Honors Found and First President Norman Dorsen, at 4.

Norman Dorsen's Acceptance, at 5.

Deborah …

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A list of books recenlty received by Michigan Law Review.

Currencies And The Commodification Of Environmental Law, J.B. Ruhl, James Salzman

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The success of several environmental trading markets (ETMs) has led to proposals for broader use of ETMs in environmental and resource management policy. The successful ETMs all share a basic feature-they exchange units of trade that are fungible, such as tons of sulfur dioxide or kilos of fish. This feature of trading promotes resource allocation efficiency while advancing environmental protection. But most commodities exchanged in current and proposed ETMs, such as wetlands and endangered species habitat, exhibit nonfungibilities across the dimensions of type, time, and space. Using ETMs to trade these commodities is no longer trading "environmental apples for apples," …

Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 50, Fall 2000, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

No abstract provided.

A Book Review Of An Invitation To Environmental Sociology, George Dillmann

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Nonprofit Organizations In Brownfields Redevelopment: Leveling The Playing BrownField, Ellen B. Sturm

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

October 2000, Ciel, Handbook On The Office Of The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman , Draft, Center For International Environmental Law

CAO General 1999-Present

No abstract provided.

In Practice, [V. 1, No. 1], Fall 2000

In Practice

No abstract provided.

The Changing Face Of The Shoreline: Public And Private Rights To The Natural And Nourished Dry Sand Beaches Of North Carolina, Joseph J. Kalo

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Bulletin Of Information Of The University Of Notre Dame, The Law School 2000–2001, Volume 96, Number 4, University Of Notre Dame

Bulletins of Information

CONTENTS

Introduction

Spirit of Inclusion at Notre Dame

Graduate Law Programs

Dual-Degree Programs

Requirements for Graduation and Good Academic Standing

Tuition and Fees

Withdrawal Regulations

Curriculum

Law School Courses

Course Descriptions

Officers of Administration

Law School Faculty

Law School Calendar

Important Addresses

Security Information for Notre Dame Security/Police

Nondiscrimination Policy

Policies on Harassment and Other Aspects of Student Life

Environmental Law At Maryland, No. 11, Summer-Fall 2000

Environmental Law at Maryland

No abstract provided.

Biographies Of Speakers Symposium

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Social Costs Of Moving Water In Northern New Mexico, David Benavides

Water and Growth in the West (Summer Conference, June 7-9)

15 pages.

Risk Equity, W. Kip Viscusi

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Risk equity serves as the purported rationale for a wide range of inefficient policy practices, such as the concern that hypothetical individual risks not be too great. This paper proposes an alternative risk equity concept in terms of equitable tradeoffs rather than equity in risk levels. Equalizing the cost per life saved across policy contexts will save additional lives and will give fair treatment to risks arising in a variety of domains. Equitable tradeoffs will also benefit minorities who currently are disadvantaged by politically based inefficient policies.

16th Annual Environmental Law Institute, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Christopher R. Fitzpatrick, Carl W. Breeding, Timothy J. Hagerty, Marc S. Murphy, Wanda Ballard Repasky, Clinton J. Elliott, Thomas W. Fitzgerald, Dennis J. Conniff, Laura D. Keller, W. Blaine Early, Eric A. Braun, Michael P. Healy, Glenna Jo Curry, James L. Dickinson, W. Patrick Stallard, Richard H. Underwood

Continuing Legal Education Materials

Materials from the 16th Annual Environmental Law Institute held by UK/CLE in May 2000.

Comprehensive References And Indexes, Volume 21 (1999-2000)

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.