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Environmental Law

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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2002

Articles 1 - 4 of 4

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Legal Obstacles To Private Ordering In Marine Fisheries, Jonathan H. Adler Jan 2002

Legal Obstacles To Private Ordering In Marine Fisheries, Jonathan H. Adler

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Part II of this Article surveys the challenges of marine conservation, the failures of existing regulatory regimes, and the potential for property rights in marine resources. Part III discusses the nature of private ordering, providing examples that arise from the fisheries context. Part IV discusses how legal rules can inhibit private ordering. That section focuses in particular on how antitrust law has impeded cooperative fishery management. Part V then explores possibilities for overcoming antitrust obstacles to private ordering. This Article concludes with some broader thoughts about the implications of this research for resource conservation.


Introduction: The Virtues And Vices Of Skeptical Environmentalism, Jonathan H. Adler, Andrew P. Morriss Jan 2002

Introduction: The Virtues And Vices Of Skeptical Environmentalism, Jonathan H. Adler, Andrew P. Morriss

Faculty Publications

Introduction to the symposium on Bjorn Lomborg's "The Skeptical Environmentalist" Cleveland, Ohio, 2002.


Fables Of The Cuyahoga: Reconstructing A History Of Environmental Protection, Jonathan H. Adler Jan 2002

Fables Of The Cuyahoga: Reconstructing A History Of Environmental Protection, Jonathan H. Adler

Faculty Publications

On June 22, 1969, just before noon, an oil slick and assorted debris under a railroad trestle on the Cuyahoga River caught fire. The fire attracted national media attention, and helped prompt the passage of federal environmental laws. A river on fire was a symbol of earth in need of repair, and federal regulation was the reparative tool of choice. Much of the Cuyahoga story is mythology, however, a fable with powerful symbolic force. The river did burn in 1969 - as it and other rivers had burned many times before - and today the Cuyahoga and many U.S. rivers …


Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Emissions Trading In North America, Jonathan H. Adler Jan 2002

Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Emissions Trading In North America, Jonathan H. Adler

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Introducation to the symposium on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources in the Canada/U.S. Context: Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Emissions Trading in North America: Kyoto Treaty and U.S. Initiatives, Cleveland, Ohio, 2002.