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Environmental Law At Maryland, No. 26, Summer-Fall 2008
Environmental Law At Maryland, No. 26, Summer-Fall 2008
Environmental Law at Maryland
No abstract provided.
The Challenge Of Chinese Environmental Law, Robert V. Percival
The Challenge Of Chinese Environmental Law, Robert V. Percival
Faculty Scholarship
China faces some of the most difficult environmental problems in the world as rapid industrial growth has produced horrendous air and water pollution. How China’s government responds to these challenges will have profound effects on the global environment. This essay discusses how Chinese environmental laws are evolving to cope with these problems and the severe obstacles that Chinese authorities face. It notes that the highly decentralized nature of China’s system of environmental laws makes it difficult for the central government to implement and enforce the laws. The essay concludes that, despite some progress, the lack of an independent judiciary and …
The Siren Sounds For Nitrogen, Jeremy S. Scholtes
The Siren Sounds For Nitrogen, Jeremy S. Scholtes
Student Articles and Papers
The international community is intensifying its efforts to combat nitrogen pollution, a threat to human health and the environment. In this Article, Jeremy S. Scholtes examines the nature of this type of pollution and the legal instruments currently in place that deal with it. He begins by explaining the theoretical concerns that negotiators must consider when designing legal instruments, recommending that regional hard law instruments in concert with partnership coordination platforms are the most effective tools for addressing nitrogen pollution. He concludes that the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) should be used as the model for developing …
Environmental Law At Maryland, No. 25, Winter-Spring 2008
Environmental Law At Maryland, No. 25, Winter-Spring 2008
Environmental Law at Maryland
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Massachusetts V Epa: Escaping The Common Law's Growing Shadow, Robert V. Percival
Massachusetts V Epa: Escaping The Common Law's Growing Shadow, Robert V. Percival
Faculty Scholarship
In its first full Term with its newest member, the U.S. Supreme Court marched decidedly to the right with decisions narrowing abortion rights, striking down affirmative action programs, invalidating campaign finance regulations, and making it more difficult for victims of employment discrimination to seek redress. In the face of this rightward shift the most surprising decision of the Term was the Court’s embrace of claims that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had acted unlawfully by refusing to use the Clean Air Act to combat climate change. In Massachusetts v EPA, the Court held that EPA had the authority to …
Capture, Accountability, And Regulatory Metrics, Sidney A. Shapiro, Rena I. Steinzor
Capture, Accountability, And Regulatory Metrics, Sidney A. Shapiro, Rena I. Steinzor
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
21世纪环境法展望 (Environmental Law In The 21st Century), Robert V. Percival
21世纪环境法展望 (Environmental Law In The 21st Century), Robert V. Percival
Faculty Scholarship
After reviewing the history of environmental law, this article discusses some important lessons that can be learned from its successes and failures. It discusses the continued influence of common law notions of causal injury on the administrative state and how the globalization of environmental concerns is affecting environmental law throughout the world. It concludes by venturing some predictions concerning the future of environmental law.
El Surgimiento Del Derecho Ambiental Global, Robert V. Percival
El Surgimiento Del Derecho Ambiental Global, Robert V. Percival
Faculty Scholarship
Legal systems across the globe are responding to environmental concerns in surprising new ways. As nations upgrade their environmental standards, some are transplanting law and regulatory policy innovations derived from the experience of other countries, including nations with very different legal and cultural traditions. New national, regional, and international initiatives have been undertaken both by governments and private organizations. Greater cross-border collaboration between government officials, nongovernmental organizations, multinational corporations and other entities is shaping environmental policy in ways that blur traditional private/public land domestic/international distinctions. The result has been the emergence of a kind of “global environmental law” – law …