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At War With The Environment, David A. Wirth Nov 2011

At War With The Environment, David A. Wirth

David A. Wirth

In this Article, Professor Wirth reviews the book National Defense and the Environment by Stephen Dycus, a recognized expert in both environmental and national security law. The emphasis of the book is on containing and remediating the environmental excesses of the American defense-industrial complex, with a domestic policy focus. While Professor Wirth considers Dycus’ work an intellectually rewarding and refreshing new entry into the ongoing environment-as-security colloquy, he does not consider the book to be accessible to a general audience given the book’s fundamentally legalistic nature.


Derecho De Acceso A La Información En Chile: Nueva Regulación E Implicancias Para El Sector De La Defensa Nacional, Pablo Contreras, Gonzalo García Jan 2009

Derecho De Acceso A La Información En Chile: Nueva Regulación E Implicancias Para El Sector De La Defensa Nacional, Pablo Contreras, Gonzalo García

Pablo Contreras

Los autores analizan el derecho de acceso a la información desde la teoría general de los derechos fundamentales. En esta línea, sostienen que no se trata de un derecho “implícito”, como ha fallado la jurisdicción constitucional chilena, sino que de una norma iusfundamental adscripta al texto de la Constitución. A partir de ello, desprenden las consecuencias y efectos que deben seguirse para toda norma iusfundamental. Luego de esto, analizan críticamente la nueva regulación en materia de transparencia, aplicando los conceptos generales al sector de la Defensa Nacional.


Mandatory Gun Ownership, The Militia Census Of 1806, And Background Assumptions Concerning The Early American Right To Arms: A Cautious Response To Robert Churchill, William G. Merkel Dec 2006

Mandatory Gun Ownership, The Militia Census Of 1806, And Background Assumptions Concerning The Early American Right To Arms: A Cautious Response To Robert Churchill, William G. Merkel

William G. Merkel

In "Gun Ownership in Early America," published in the William and Mary Quarterly in 2003,' Robert Churchill drew on probate inventories and militia records to make the case that arms ownership was pervasive in late colonial, revolutionary, and early national America. Churchill concluded with the observation that "[i]t is time to ponder what these guns meant to their owners and how that meaning changed over time."'2 In his substantial contribution to this volume of Law and History Review,3 Churchill takes up that challenge himself and advances the claim that widespread arms ownership engendered a sense of possessory entitlement, and that …