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Living With U.S. Regulations: Complying With The Rules And Avoiding Litigation, Roberta S. Karmel

Faculty Scholarship

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Land, Law, And Legitimacy In Israel And The Occupied Territories, George Bisharat

Faculty Scholarship

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Recent Developments In Refugee Protection, Maryellen Fullerton

Faculty Scholarship

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Panel Iii: International Law, Global Environmentalism, And The Future Of American Environmental Policy, Thomas W. Merrill

Faculty Scholarship

From an American perspective, environmental law has undergone two bouts of centralization in the past three decades. Round one occurred in the 1970's, as Congress federalized vast areas of environmental law that had previously been the province of state and local governments. Round two, which is still in an incipient phase, represents the effort to internationalize environmental law.

The question I would like to address is what can we learn from round one about what is likely to happen in round two. My answer, in a nutshell, is that the primary driving force behind the federalization of environmental law in …

Nationalism And Internationalism: The Wilsonian Legacy, Lori Fisler Damrosch

Faculty Scholarship

No twentieth-century leader has had greater influence on the parallel development of both nationalism and internationalism than Woodrow Wilson. Wilson gave expression to the nationalist aspirations of peoples around the world, through is endorsement of the principle of self-determination. He also initiated the first institution that had as its objective the organization of the international community to apply concerted power in support of universal values. My task is to examine one contemporary problem – intervention – in the light of some of the themes implicit in the Wilsonian legacy. Among these themes will be the establishment (and now the invigoration) …