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Climate Policy & Environmental Justice Recommendations For Colorado: Environmental Justice And The Climate Action Plan To Reduce Pollution, Kevin J. Lynch, Edwin Lamair, Evan Healey
Climate Policy & Environmental Justice Recommendations For Colorado: Environmental Justice And The Climate Action Plan To Reduce Pollution, Kevin J. Lynch, Edwin Lamair, Evan Healey
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This report was primarily drafted in the Spring of 2019, as the Colorado Legislature considered, and ultimately enacted, HB 19-1261. Since that time, developments have only highlighted the critical importance of considering the justice impacts of any public health and environmental responses to the threat of climate change. In particular, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the stark racial and class disparities that environmental conditions have on the health of a community. The same facilities and mobile sources that emit climate pollution also typically emit particulate matter and smogforming pollution that cause respiratory illness in many communities. These underlying conditions are …
Marijuana Legalization In Colorado: Lessons For Colombia, Sam Kamin
Marijuana Legalization In Colorado: Lessons For Colombia, Sam Kamin
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
In 2012 Colorado became the first jurisdiction anywhere in the world to legalize marijuana possession and use for all adults. The regulated and taxed marijuana industry that arose in Colorado following legalization was also the first of its kind and stands a model for other states considering marijuana law reform. In this brief article I discuss the results of the Colorado experiment; I demonstrate that while Colorado’s regulatory model was largely successful, it also demonstrates the limits of generating revenue through taxing and regulating marijuana. I then discuss the implications of this conclusion for post-conflict Colombia, drawing a comparison to …
Colorado Citations, K.K. Duvivier
Colorado Citations, K.K. Duvivier
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
More than ten years ago, I wrote a column addressing special citation forms used by Colorado courts. Readers have clamored for an update, so here it is. . .
Between Town And Gown: The Rise And Fall Of Restorative Justice On Boulder's University Hill, Thomas D. Russell
Between Town And Gown: The Rise And Fall Of Restorative Justice On Boulder's University Hill, Thomas D. Russell
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This article describes the creation of and subsequent demise of a restorative justice program in the University Hill neighborhood of Boulder, CO.