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Criminalizing Ecocide, Rebecca Hamilton
Criminalizing Ecocide, Rebecca Hamilton
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Amid widespread acknowledgment that we live on a planet in peril, the term “ecocide” packs a powerful rhetorical punch. Extant regulatory approaches to environmental protection feel insufficient in the face of the triple threat of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. International criminal prosecution for ecocide, by contrast, promises to meet the moment, and a recent proposal to introduce ecocide into the canon of core international crimes is gaining traction. Assuming the push to criminalize ecocide continues to gain momentum, this Article argues that the primary (and perhaps, sole) benefit that international criminal law can offer in this context is …
Conservation Easements As A Tool For Nature Protection, William Snape
Conservation Easements As A Tool For Nature Protection, William Snape
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Thirsty Places, Priya Baskaran
Thirsty Places, Priya Baskaran
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The United States, among the wealthiest and most prosperous nations in the world, regularly fails to provide clean, potable water to many of its citizens. Recent water crises occur within communities categorized as Geographically Disadvantaged Spaces ("GDS'), which often encompass urban and rural areas. What is more, people of color and economically vulnerable populations are often located within GDS, disproportionately burdening these groups with the economic and public health consequences of failing water infrastructure. This article provides a novel, comparative analysis of communities lacking potable water in Flint, Michigan, and southern West Virginia. This analysis highlights entrenched structural problems present …
Sdlp After 20: Sustainable Development In The Anthropocene, David Hunter
Sdlp After 20: Sustainable Development In The Anthropocene, David Hunter
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The Future Of Climate Change Litigation After Aep V. Connecticut, Amanda Leiter, Rick Faulk, Eric Lasker, Mike Myers
The Future Of Climate Change Litigation After Aep V. Connecticut, Amanda Leiter, Rick Faulk, Eric Lasker, Mike Myers
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Human Rights Implications For The Climate Negotiations, David Hunter
Human Rights Implications For The Climate Negotiations, David Hunter
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Symposium: The Confluence of Human Rights and the EnvironmentINTRODUCTION: According to John Holdren, the Science Advisor to President Obama, humanity can only respond to climate change in three ways. We can mitigate climate change, for example by reducing greenhouse gas emissions; we can adapt to climate change, for example by defending our coastlines; or we can suffer from climate change. Given current emission levels and projected climate change impacts, we are inevitably going to do some of all three. A human rights approach, the subject of this Article, puts the focus on those who will suffer from climate change, in …
Moving Global Health Law Upstream: A Critical Appraisal Of Global Health Law As A Tool For Health Adaptation To Climate Change, Lindsay Wiley
Moving Global Health Law Upstream: A Critical Appraisal Of Global Health Law As A Tool For Health Adaptation To Climate Change, Lindsay Wiley
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The relatively new discipline of global health law is a potentially powerful tool for promoting health adaptation to climate change. Unfortunately, global climate change will intensify exactly those health threats that have not been adequately addressed by multilateral cooperation with respect to health in the past, which has been dominated by security-based and treatment-focused approaches. Recent focus on biosecurity concerns such as the global spread of emerging infectious diseases and biological terrorism has further entrenched a security-based approach to global health law and policy that has origins in the earliest attempts at international health cooperation and is currently embodied in …
Lessons Learned From The European Union’S Climate Policy, David Hunter
Lessons Learned From The European Union’S Climate Policy, David Hunter
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INTRODUCTION The United States, after ignoring climate policy for the last decade, now finds itself debating the merits of a national cap-and-trade policy. Currently, U.S. environmentalists are divided over whether to support the watered-down American Climate and Energy Security bill (ACES), also known as the Waxman-Markey bill. ACES passed the U.S. House of Representatives only after significant changes were made to address concerns from the coal industry and other powerful forces; and the bill likely faces even more compromises if it is to be passed in the U.S. Senate.' Supporters of the Waxman-Markey bill believe it is best to establish …
Expedited Partner Therapies For Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Legal And Policy Approaches, Lindsay Wiley, James G. Hodge Jr., Erin Fuse Brown, Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya
Expedited Partner Therapies For Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Legal And Policy Approaches, Lindsay Wiley, James G. Hodge Jr., Erin Fuse Brown, Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya
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Negligence In The Air: The Duty Of Care In Climate Change Litigation, David Hunter, James Salzman
Negligence In The Air: The Duty Of Care In Climate Change Litigation, David Hunter, James Salzman
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Inter-American System, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon
Inter-American System, Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon
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Environmental Insurance: Does It Defy The Rules, Amanda Leiter
Environmental Insurance: Does It Defy The Rules, Amanda Leiter
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Environment And Trade Concepts And Principles Of International Law: An Introduction, David Hunter
Environment And Trade Concepts And Principles Of International Law: An Introduction, David Hunter
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Can International Legal Principles Promote The Resolution Of Central And East European Transboundary Environmental Disputes?, Paul Williams
Can International Legal Principles Promote The Resolution Of Central And East European Transboundary Environmental Disputes?, Paul Williams
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The fall of communism and the subsequent opening of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have revealed a regional ecosystem under serious strain after over forty years of communist stewardship. Although the entire region suffers from an exploited ecosystem, particular destruction has occurred in the border regions of the CEE states. The substantial environmental destruction and continuing degradation in these border regions give rise to a number of transboundary environmental disputes, which must be resolved if the situation is to be alleviated.'
Public Law, Private Actors: The Impact Of Human Rights On Business Investors In China, Diane Orentlicher
Public Law, Private Actors: The Impact Of Human Rights On Business Investors In China, Diane Orentlicher
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Environmental Reforms In Post-Communist Central Europe: From High Hopes To Hard Reality, David Hunter, Margaret Bowman
Environmental Reforms In Post-Communist Central Europe: From High Hopes To Hard Reality, David Hunter, Margaret Bowman
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Toward Global Citizenship In International Environmental Law, David Hunter
Toward Global Citizenship In International Environmental Law, David Hunter
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O'Connor: A Dual Role - An Introduction, Stephen Wermiel
O'Connor: A Dual Role - An Introduction, Stephen Wermiel
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In The Matter Of Consumers Power: Applying The Antitrust Laws To The Nuclear Electric Utility Industry, Andrew Popper
In The Matter Of Consumers Power: Applying The Antitrust Laws To The Nuclear Electric Utility Industry, Andrew Popper
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