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The Legal Crisis Within The Climate Crisis, Mark P. Nevitt
The Legal Crisis Within The Climate Crisis, Mark P. Nevitt
Faculty Articles
Climate change creates a difficult choice for property owners and governmental officials alike: Should they invest in costly climate adaptation measures or retreat from climate-exposed areas? Either decision is fraught with legal uncertainty, running headfirst into antiquated legal doctrines designed for a more stable world. Climate impacts to the coastline are forcing policymakers to consider four adaptation tools: (1) resisting climate impacts by building sea walls and armoring the shoreline; (2) accommodating those impacts by elevating existing structures; (3) managed retreat such as systematically and preemptively moving people out of harm’s way; and (4) reactively moving people to new locations …
Downstream Inundations Caused By Federal Flood Control Dam Operations In A Changing Climate: Getting The Proper Mix Of Takings, Tort, And Compensation, Robert Haskell Abrams, Jacqueline Bertelsen
Downstream Inundations Caused By Federal Flood Control Dam Operations In A Changing Climate: Getting The Proper Mix Of Takings, Tort, And Compensation, Robert Haskell Abrams, Jacqueline Bertelsen
Journal Publications
The 2012 United States Supreme Court case Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States presented the Court with a claim that the property of a landowner downstream of a flood control dam was taken without compensation as a result of non-permanent inundations of low lying portions of that parcel caused by a change in the dam's pattern of releases. The Court held that, "government-induced flooding temporary in duration gains no automatic exemption from Takings Clause inspection" and must, instead, be tested according to the Court's usual precedents governing temporary physical invasions and regulatory takings. The Federal Circuit held a …
Property Rights And Public Resources, Mark L. Pollot
Property Rights And Public Resources, Mark L. Pollot
Regulatory Takings and Resources: What Are the Constitutional Limits? (Summer Conference, June 13-15)
4 pages.
Regulatory Taking Of Public Water And Land Resource Development Rights After Lucas, Jerome C. Muys
Regulatory Taking Of Public Water And Land Resource Development Rights After Lucas, Jerome C. Muys
Regulatory Takings and Resources: What Are the Constitutional Limits? (Summer Conference, June 13-15)
7 pages.
Takings And Retroactivity, Jan G. Laitos
Takings And Retroactivity, Jan G. Laitos
Regulatory Takings and Resources: What Are the Constitutional Limits? (Summer Conference, June 13-15)
25 pages.
Contains references.
City Of Tigard And Takings Law, Richard D. Lazarus
City Of Tigard And Takings Law, Richard D. Lazarus
Regulatory Takings and Resources: What Are the Constitutional Limits? (Summer Conference, June 13-15)
10 pages.
Contains 1 page of references.