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Cyber Insurance Today: Saving It Before It Needs Saving, Angela Nieves 2020 Saint Thomas University

Cyber Insurance Today: Saving It Before It Needs Saving, Angela Nieves

Catholic University Journal of Law and Technology

Cyber insurance, which covers a company’s losses and costs stemming from a cyberattack, represents a nearly $5 billion global market. But have stakeholders shaped a sustainable model? This article analyzes contrasting claims about the viability of cyber insurance. It proposes measures to ensure the survival of the cyber insurance market, which should be immediately addressed given the current state of the world and the fact that even pre-COVID-19, businesses worldwide stood to lose over $5.2 trillion over the next five years due to cybercrimes. Unless action is taken to mitigate the fallout from cyber events, the cyber insurance market will …


When Protest Is The Disaster: Constitutional Implications Of State And Local Emergency Power, Karen Pita Loor 2019 Boston University School of Law

When Protest Is The Disaster: Constitutional Implications Of State And Local Emergency Power, Karen Pita Loor

Faculty Scholarship

The President’s use of emergency authority has recently ignited concern among civil rights groups over national executive emergency power. However, state and local emergency authority can also be dangerous and deserves similar attention. This article demonstrates that, just as we watch over the national executive, we must be wary of and check on state and local executives — and their emergency management law enforcement actors — when they react in crisis mode. This paper exposes and critiques state executives’ use of emergency power and emergency management mechanisms to suppress grassroots political activity and suggests avenues to counter that abuse. I …


Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review 2019 Seattle University School of Law

Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review

Seattle University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Climate Displaced Peoples: Utilizing Regional Approaches To Combat Climate-Induced Displacement In The 21st Century, Oshani Amaratunga 2019 Pace University

Climate Displaced Peoples: Utilizing Regional Approaches To Combat Climate-Induced Displacement In The 21st Century, Oshani Amaratunga

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.


What Fema Should Do After Puerto Rico: Toward Critical Administrative Constitutionalism, Yxta Maya Murray 2019 Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

What Fema Should Do After Puerto Rico: Toward Critical Administrative Constitutionalism, Yxta Maya Murray

Arkansas Law Review

The 200th anniversary of the 1819 Supreme Court decision McCulloch v. Maryland offers scholars a special opportunity to study the shortcomings of the federal The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as they were revealed by FEMA’s failures in Puerto Rico during and after Hurricane Maria. Under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, as it has been interpreted by McCulloch, a law passed by Congress must be necessary and proper for executing its powers. In light of the expansive capacities allotted for disaster relief under the Stafford Act, and the catastrophic failure of FEMA to provide …


Newsletter, Summer 2019, 2019 University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Newsletter, Summer 2019

Newsletter

No abstract provided.


The Community Relations Service's Work In Preventing And Responding To Unfounded Racially And Religiously Motivated Violence After 9/11, Grande Lum 2019 Texas A&M University School of Law

The Community Relations Service's Work In Preventing And Responding To Unfounded Racially And Religiously Motivated Violence After 9/11, Grande Lum

Texas A&M Journal of Property Law

On the morning of September 11, 2001, New York City-based Community Relations Service (“CRS”) Regional Director Reinaldo Rivera was at a New Jersey summit on racial profiling. At 8:46 a.m., an American Airlines 767 crashed into the North Tower of New York City’s World Trade Center. Because Rivera was with the New Jersey state attorney general, he quickly learned of the attack. Rivera immediately called his staff members, who at that moment were traveling to Long Island, New York, for an unrelated case. Getting into Manhattan had already become difficult, so Rivera instructed his conciliators to remain on standby. At …


Weathering The Storm: Utilizing Congressional Investigations To Improve National Hurricane Preparedness, Jennifer Safstrom 2019 Vanderbilt University Law School

Weathering The Storm: Utilizing Congressional Investigations To Improve National Hurricane Preparedness, Jennifer Safstrom

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

During the 2017 hurricane season, three major storms impacted differ- ent regions of the United States. These storms-Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria-devastated communities in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico within the span of a month. These storms were so destructive that the World Meteorological Organization has retired all three storm names, meaning no future hurricane will ever bear the names Harvey, Irma, or Maria again. In response, according to the Government Accountability Office ("GAO"), "19 federal agencies had entered into contracts and obligated over $5.6 billion on those contracts to support efforts related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria" as …


Managing Hurricane (And Other Natural Disaster) Risk, Robert Jerry II 2019 University of Missouri School of Law

Managing Hurricane (And Other Natural Disaster) Risk, Robert Jerry Ii

Texas A&M Law Review

With the data showing that hurricanes are the most likely and serious of all of these disasters, we return to Hurricane Harvey. No one living in Texas—especially in the cities of Houston, Port Arthur, Bridge City, Rockport, Wharton, Conroe, Port Aransas, and Victoria, or more generally in the counties of Harris, Aransas, Nueces, Jefferson, Orange, Victoria, Calhoun, Matagorda, Brazoria, Galveston, Fort Bend, Montgomery, and Wharton—needs to be told that the U.S. needs a better approach to managing hurricane and other natural disaster risk, both in terms of pre-disaster planning and post-disaster recovery. Texans are not alone, as survivors of Hurricanes …


Small Family Farms And Natural Disasters: Natural Disasters Disproportionately Hurt Small Farms, But Should The Government Care?, Luisa Lloyd Gough 2019 Brigham Young University Law School

Small Family Farms And Natural Disasters: Natural Disasters Disproportionately Hurt Small Farms, But Should The Government Care?, Luisa Lloyd Gough

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Cleaning Up Our Toxic Coasts: A Precautionary And Human Health-Based Approach To Coastal Adaptation, Robin Kundis Craig 2019 S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah

Cleaning Up Our Toxic Coasts: A Precautionary And Human Health-Based Approach To Coastal Adaptation, Robin Kundis Craig

Pace Environmental Law Review

Hurricanes in the United States in 2005, 2012, and 2017 have all revealed an insidious problem for coastal climate change adaptation: toxic contamination in the coastal zone. As sea levels rise and violent coastal storms become increasingly frequent, this legacy of toxic pollution threatens immediate emergency response, longer term human health, and coastal ecosystems’ capacity to adapt to changing coastal conditions.

Focusing on Hurricane Harvey’s 2017 devastation of Houston, Texas, as its primary example, this Article first discusses the toxic legacy still present in many coastal environments. It then examines the existing laws available to clean up the coastal zone—CERCLA, …


Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review 2019 Seattle University School of Law

Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review

Seattle University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Emotional Appraisals In The Wake Of Hurricanes Harvey And Maria, Olympia Duhart 2019 Nova Southeastern University - Shepard Broad Law Center

Emotional Appraisals In The Wake Of Hurricanes Harvey And Maria, Olympia Duhart

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


An Inflection Point For Disaster Relief: Superstorm Sandy, Danshera Wetherington Cords 2019 Albany Law School

An Inflection Point For Disaster Relief: Superstorm Sandy, Danshera Wetherington Cords

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Disaster Legal Tech: Strategies For Providing Legal Information To Survivors, Jeanne Ortiz-Ortiz, Jessica Penkoff 2019 Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Disaster Legal Tech: Strategies For Providing Legal Information To Survivors, Jeanne Ortiz-Ortiz, Jessica Penkoff

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Pets Act And Beyond: A Critical Examination Of The Pets Act And What The Future Of Disaster Planning And Response For Animals Should Be, Erica LaVoy 2019 Mitchell Hamline School of Law

The Pets Act And Beyond: A Critical Examination Of The Pets Act And What The Future Of Disaster Planning And Response For Animals Should Be, Erica Lavoy

Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice

No abstract provided.


Trial By Water: Reflections On Superstorm Sandy, Thomas Maligno, Benjamin Rajotte 2019 Touro Law Center

Trial By Water: Reflections On Superstorm Sandy, Thomas Maligno, Benjamin Rajotte

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Call For Inputs: Climate Change And Human Rights: A Safe Climate, Sara L. Seck, Lisa Benjamin 2019 Schulich School of Law and Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University

Call For Inputs: Climate Change And Human Rights: A Safe Climate, Sara L. Seck, Lisa Benjamin

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

There is now global agreement that human rights norms apply to the full spectrum of environmental issues, including climate change. The previous Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, Mr. John Knox, developed Framework Principles on Human Rights and the Environment that set forth three sets of duties that engage both States and businesses: procedural obligations; substantive obligations; and obligations relating to those in vulnerable situations.

The current Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, Mr. David Boyd, is working to provide additional clarity regarding the substantive obligations relating to a range of elements that are essential to …


Manufactured Emergencies, Robert Tsai 2019 American University Washington College of Law

Manufactured Emergencies, Robert Tsai

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Emergencies are presumed to be unusual affairs, but the United States has been in one state of emergency or another for the last forty years. That is a problem. The erosion of democratic norms has led to not simply the collapse of the traditional conceptual boundary between ordinary rule and emergency governance, but also the emergence of an even graver problem: the manufactured crisis. In an age characterized by extreme partisanship, institutional gridlock, and technological manipulation of information, it has become exceedingly easy and far more tempting for a President to invoke extraordinary power by ginning up exigencies. To reduce …


Nagwediẑk’An Gwaneŝ Gangu Ch’Inidẑed Ganexwilagh: The Fires Awakened Us: Tsilhqot’In Report On The 2017 Wildfires, Jocelyn Stacey, Crystal Verhaeghe, Emma Feltes 2019 Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia

Nagwediẑk’An Gwaneŝ Gangu Ch’Inidẑed Ganexwilagh: The Fires Awakened Us: Tsilhqot’In Report On The 2017 Wildfires, Jocelyn Stacey, Crystal Verhaeghe, Emma Feltes

All Faculty Publications

This report documents the experiences of the Tsilhqot'in Nation during the historic 2017 wildfire season. It identifies needs and recommendations for moving forward with nation-to-nation emergency management.


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