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Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Contractual Interpretations, Ambiguities, And Litigation Difficulties Presented In The Context Of Oil And Gas Leases As A Result Of The Texas Supreme Court’S Decision In Murphy Exploration & Prod. Co.-Usa V. Adams, 560 S.W.3d 105 (Tex. 2018), Jake B. Ware

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Can You Dig It? A Note On The U.S. Supreme Court’S Atomic Energy Act Preemption Decision In Virginia Uranium, Inc. V. Warren, John Shelden

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Balkanization In Oil And Gas: How Home Rule Constitutional Provisions Disrupt State Law, Dan Ray

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Identifying The Pillars Of A Pro-Solar Energy Policy: A Multi-State Survey Of Distributed Solar Energy Generation Laws, Samuel Moore

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Budding Marijuana Industry Meets Climate & Environmental Crisis: A Call To Legislative Action, Spencer Gill

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Parker Drilling Mgmt. Servs., Ltd. V. Newton: Drilling Down On The Law Of The Outer Continental Shelf, William Dakil

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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The Battle For Oil: Fighting Through Corruption & Changing Socio-Economic Landscapes To Win Over Africa’S Biggest Giants, Modupe Adamolekun

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Editor's Introduction & Front Pages

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Law School News: Dennis W. Nixon: Doctor Of Laws, Honoris Causa 05-09-2020, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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When Water Isn't Wet: The Evolution Of Water Right Mitigation In Washington State, Rachael Osborn, Michael Mayer

Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, & Innovation Law

What is water right mitigation?

The allocation of surface and ground water resources for out of stream uses via the western water rights doctrine of prior appropriation comes with serious environmental consequences – depletion of streamflow and aquifers. Over-appropriation by water rights has led to deleterious impacts on natural resources, including salmon survival, water quality, and public uses of state waterways.

Because of the over-appropriated condition of Washington’s rivers and aquifers, the issuance of new water rights has until recently required water-for-water or in-kind mitigation, with the goal to directly compensate for deleterious impacts. Historically, the Water Resources Program of …

Shifting Public Perception: Climate Change Means Living With Fire And Smoke, Robert Froembling

Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, & Innovation Law

The urgency to prepare for the climate crisis has never been greater. We are currently living in the sixth mass extinction and the effects are only going to accelerate. We will inherit more wildfires, larger wildfires, and more frequent wildfires.

This piece is not meant to stoke fear in its readers or be depressing, but to shift public perception on what our future holds by evaluating the laws and science presented to us. This piece will look at regional and federal regulations and assess the increased rate of forest fires and the grave public health concerns from stagnant smoke specifically …

Part 3: Case Study Appendices To The Technical Reports, Seth J. Boettcher, Courtney Gately, Alexandra L. Lizano, Alexis Long, Alexis Yelvington

EENRS Program Reports & Publications

This Case Study Appendix to the Technical Reports expands on regulations in San Antonio and El Paso where these water alternatives are in place. The goal of this report is to provide insight into the legal and regulatory barriers, challenges, and opportunities for these technologies to go online. Each desalination and water recycling faciality implementation site must comply with various laws and regulations. The information in these Case Studies comes from the study of brackish groundwater desalination and water recycling facilities currently operating in Texas. While there is no updated “one-stop-shop” resource where a municipal leader can find a list …

Part 2: Water Recycling Technical Report For Direct Non-Potable Use, Seth J. Boettcher, Courtney Gately, Alexandra L. Lizano, Alexis Long, Alexis Yelvington

EENRS Program Reports & Publications

This Water Recycling Technical Report examines the legal frameworks that affect water recycling in Texas. The goal of this report is to provide insight into the legal and regulatory barriers, challenges, and opportunities for these technologies to go online. Each water recycling implementation site has to find ways of complying with various laws and regulations. The information in this Report comes from the study of water recycling facilities currently operating in Texas, as well as extensive research into available literature and documents from various agencies. While there is no updated “one-stop-shop” resource that provides detailed information on all the necessary …

Part 1: Brackish Groundwater Desalination Technical Report, Seth J. Boettcher, Courtney Gately, Alexandra L. Lizano, Alexis Long, Alexis Yelvington

EENRS Program Reports & Publications

This Brackish Groundwater Desalination Technical Report examines the legal frameworks that affect desalination in Texas. The goal of this report is to provide insight into the legal and regulatory barriers, challenges, and opportunities for these technologies to go online. Each desalination implementation site has to find ways of complying with various laws and regulations. The information in this Report comes from the study of brackish groundwater desalination facilities currently operating in Texas, as well as extensive research into available literature and documents from various agencies. While there is no updated “one-stop-shop” resource that provides detailed information on all the necessary …

Environmental Justice: Law, Policy & Regulation, Clifford Villa, Nadia Ahmad, Rebecca Bratspies, Roger Lin, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Eileen Gauna, Catherine O'Neill

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Environmental Justice: Law, Policy, & Regulation explores theory and practice in this dynamic subject, which fuses environmental law and civil rights enforcement. From early concerns over toxic waste in minority communities, environmental justice expanded to consider the range of environmental threats facing poor, immigrant, and indigenous communities; women, children, and seniors; and other vulnerable populations. This third edition provides extensively updated materials to address environmental justice concerns today, including oil drilling in the Arctic, the Dakota Access Pipeline, drinking water contamination in Flint, and the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Featuring new chapters addressing disaster justice and …

Dairy Tales: Global Portraits Of Milk And Law, Jessica Eisen, Xiaoqian Hu, Erum Sattar

Journal of Food Law & Policy

Cow’s milk has enjoyed a widespread cultural signification in many parts of the world as “nature’s perfect food.”1 A growing body of scholarship, however, has challenged the image of cow’s milk in human diets and polities as a product of “nature,” and has instead sought to illuminate the political, scientific, colonial and postcolonial, economic, and social forces that have in fact defined the production, consumption, and cultural signification of cow’s milk in human societies. This emerging attention to the social, legal, and political significance of milk sits at the intersection of several fields of academic inquiry: anthropology, history, animal studies, …

On Proposal To Regulate Abuse Of Superior Bargaining Position: Lessons From Other Jurisdictions, Meirani Suyawan, Kurnia Togar Pandapotan Tanjung

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The latest version of the draft bill regarding Law on the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices and Unfair Business Competition has added new arrangements about the abuse of a superior bargaining position. The new law proposal which is intended to amend existing Indonesian competition law (Law Number 5 Year 1999) stipulates that any business actor is prohibited from abuse its superior bargaining position within a partnership agreement with other less dominant entities. Under Law Number 20 Year 2008 on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, a partnership agreement means any agreement made between micro, small and medium enterprises and large enterprises like …

Hubungan Keuangan Pemerintah Pusat Dan Daerah Dalam Penyelenggaraan Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional, Amelia Martira, Harsanto Nursadi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Indonesia’s National Health Security (NHS) has begun since 2014 which give a lot of benefits to people in Indonesia. Access to health care become more easier without giving financial hardship. However, there are some obstacles that Indonesia NHS facing, which one is deficit in pool funding that is not enough to pay the benefits. One of newer solution to overcome this problem is by activating the resources from local government, especially from the funding. Basically, decentralization is the framework of the central and local government relation in Indonesia, by transferring power, authority and financial of health functional assignment to local …

Analisis Hukum Skema Kontrak Gross Split Terhadap Peningkatan Investasi Hulu Minyak Dan Gas Bumi, Muhammad Fajri

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

As a solution to the problems of the Cost Recovery production sharing contract system, the Government of Indonesia through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources issued Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia Regulation Number 08 of 2017 concerning Gross Split Production Sharing Contracts. This new regulation is motivated by the low number and length of time of the discovery of oil and gas reserves, along with the Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP) which continues to decline in the upstream oil and gas sector. The Gross Split profit sharing scheme also offers bureaucratic cuts in investment …

Partisipasi Perempuan Dalam Proses Pengambilan Keputusan Di Dewan Adat Terkait Dengan Penyelesaian Kasus-Kasus Kekerasan Terhadap Perempuan: Kisah Dari Atambua, Sumba Timur, Rote Dan Labuan Bajo, Lidwina Inge Nurtjahyo

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Based on Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, especially in Articles 2c, 5a, 7b and c, 15 (1) and (2) women and men are equal. If there are any discriminations, the states which have ratified the Convention shall eliminate the discriminations from rules or tradition or practices. Women in some indigenous communities have some limitation in decision making process, even in the process to get solution in violence aghaainst women cases. For examples in Rote, Labuan Bajo, East Sumba and Atambua (East Nusa Tenggara) women have limited access to the decision-making process in indigenous forums even in cases of …

Pengembangan Kapasitas Usaha Kecil Menengah Dalam Memanfaatkan Sistem Hak Kekayaan Intelektual Bagi Peningkatan Daya Saing Usaha, Ranggalawe Suryasaladin

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

As a main contributor to Indonesia GDP, Small and Medium Enterprises should be assisted by Goverment and University in order to expand its capacity in managing their intangible assets and intellectual property. The efforts in giving guidance to SMEs in managing its IP and take a benefit of IP systems could be on the mapping of problems faced by SMEs in managing its IP and addressing a better policy recommendation suitable to solves it problems. This article streghtening the arguments that to enhance Indonesia SME capacities in managing its IP , the government institutions and university have to coopertate in …

Merekonstruksi Paradigma Gugatan Citizen Lawsuit Di Indonesia Sebagai Sengketa Administrasi, Muhammad Adiguna Bimasakti

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Citizen Lawsuit is an alternative law enforcement mechanism for citizens. Every citizen has the same right to file a Citizen Lawsuit in the court. However, the problems are that there is no definite regulation regarding the authority to adjudicate Citizen Lawsuit, and its contact with the “Judicial Review” which is the constitutional authority of the Supreme Court. In addition there are also problems related to discretionary authority where there is a prohibition for judges to judge the good and bad of the government's discretionary actions. This paper tries to answer these problems through normative and theoretical approaches. The contact between …

Urgensi Revisi Undang-Undang Nomor 6 Tahun 2014 Tentang Desa Perihal Pembangunan Desa, Dian Herdiana

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The enactment of Law Number 6 of 2014 on Villages brings optimism to the creation of village development that is able to realize village autonomy. But in practice, the Village Law has not been able to realize the development goals. On this basis, this article is intended to examine village development from the perspective of the substance of the Village Law. The method used in this study is a juridical-normative method with a descriptive approach. The results of the study show that the substance of the Village Law does not give full authority to the villages in local-participatory development, even …

Politik Hukum Pidana Terhadap Perbuatan Narapidana Melarikan Diri Dari Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Di Indonesia, Muhammad Fatahillah Akbar

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Prison escape has been committed by many prisoners in several correctional institutions in Indonesia. Since it is not a crime under Indonesian Law, the punishment of the action is merely an discipline sanction. Then, the existing punishment is not sufficient to prevent and eradicate prison escape. Hence, the rehabilitation by the correctional system will never work. This paper aims to analyse how the existing legislation regulates on the prison escape and how the viable regulation in prison escape. It is proven than in the Act on Correctional Institution and in the other relevan regulations, prison escape can never be investigated …

Peran Dan Fungsi Notaris Dalam Pembuatan Kontrak Bagi Hasil Minyak Dan Gas Bumi Di Indonesia, Zakia Vonna, Sri Walny Rahayu, M. Nur

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

This article describes contract as one of the essential elements in commercial law, one of which is the oil and gas sector. Therefore, in drafting the contract in the sector, requirements set in prevailing laws and regulation need to be met. In practice, notaries are often involved as public officials in the process of contract drafting in accordance with Article 15 of Law No 2 of 2014 regarding the amendment for Law No 30 of 2004 regarding the Legal Constitution of Notary Public Profession, because they are state officials who are authorized to draft and ratify contracts. This research was …

Legalization Of Abortion Against Victims Of Rape Crimes Viewed From Victimology Perspective, Siska Elvandari

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

One of human rights guaranteed and protected in the 1945 Constitution is the right to live and maintain life, stated in Article 28 A of the 1945 Constitution. The right to live and maintain life is the highest right that is inherent in human beings as the subject of law since humans were born to death in the world. The right to live and maintain life is not only inherent in human beings who have been born, but also in humans or children who are still in the womb, stated in Article II of the Civil Code that "Children are …

Peliputan Secara Langsung Persidangan Perkara Pidana Oleh Media Televisi Dihubungkan Dengan Asas Pemeriksaan Di Pengadilan Terbuka Untuk Umum Dalam Rangka Pembaharuan Hukum Acara Pidana, Merti Ardilla, Elis Rusmiati, Ijud Tajudin

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

In the practice of judiciary in Indonesia, the phenomenon of direct trial of cases of punishment by the press appeared and then broadcast live through television media, this could occur in a situation as a trial announced for the public. This practice has a negative impact, among others, will refute the principle of the presumption of innocence and have an impact on the evidence at the trial. This study aims to find out and analyze the provisions regarding the coverage of trials in court by disputes with the public interest and the principle of examination at the trial open to …

Pencemaran Nama Baik Dan Penghinaan Melalui Media Teknologi Informasi Komunikasi Di Indonesia Pasca Amandemen Uu Ite, Anton Hendrik Samudra

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The amendment of the ITE Law is conducted to provide better legal certainty. This is an effort to respond to society development and aims to provide better legal protection and justice. The implementation of freedom of expression in the media of Information Communication Technology (ICT) affecting the number of defamation. With the amendment of ITE law, it is necessary to examine the nature of defamation offense and libel through ICT media.

Pelaksanaan E-Court Menurut Perma Nomor 3 Tahun 2018 Tentang Administrasi Perkara Di Pengadilan Secara Elektronik Dan E-Litigation Menurut Perma Nomor 1 Tahun 2019 Tentang Administrasi Perkara Dan Persidangan Di Pengadilan Secara Elektronik (Studi Di Pengadilan Negeri Di Indonesia), Sonyendah Retnaningsih, Disriani Latifah Soroinda Nasution, Rouli Anita Velentina, Kelly Manthovani

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The process of resolving cases at a trial is not always carried out conventionally ie the parties come directly to the trial but can be done online. This is marked by the launch of the e-court application on July 13, 2018. With the launch of the e-court application, the Supreme Court has moved towards electronic justice which will fundamentally change the practice of litigation services in the courts. Since the issuance of Supreme Court Regulation No. 1 of 2019 concerning Administrative of Cases and Trials in Electronic Courts on August 19, 2019, the Supreme Court Regulation No. 3 of 2018 …