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Using State Law Before The Glaciers Thaw: Climate Torts After Bp V. Baltimore, Jillian Mayer
Using State Law Before The Glaciers Thaw: Climate Torts After Bp V. Baltimore, Jillian Mayer
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
We are living in the beginning stages of Earth’s sixth mass extinction. Since the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century, the burning of fossil fuels has released huge quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses (“GHGs”) into the atmosphere. The increased concentration of GHGs causes the atmosphere to retain more heat. Consequently, ecosystems and weather patterns shift and change faster than most plants, animals, and human societies can adapt. Climate change threatens global peace, crashes economies, and creates humanitarian crises.
Life, Liberty, And A Stable Climate: The Potential Of The State-Created Danger Doctrine In Climate Change Litigation, Andrew Johnson
Life, Liberty, And A Stable Climate: The Potential Of The State-Created Danger Doctrine In Climate Change Litigation, Andrew Johnson
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Following New Lights: Critical Legal Research Strategies As A Spark For Law Reform In Appalachia, Nicholas F. Stump
Following New Lights: Critical Legal Research Strategies As A Spark For Law Reform In Appalachia, Nicholas F. Stump
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
The nascent “critical legal research” movement applies the constellation of critical theory to the American legal research regime. Work in this discourse has unpacked the means through which commercial print and online legal resources (e.g., Westlaw and Lexis) insidiously channel the efforts of legal researchers, essentially predetermining research outcomes. Although legal research is commonly conceived as a normatively neutral paradigm, such commercial homogenizing agents (paired with traditional methods of legal analysis) in fact reflect and perpetuate society’s dominant interests. As grounded in the existing literature, this Article outlines novel strategies that may together constitute one potential version of a critically …