Montana Environmental Information Center V. Montana Department Of Environmental Quality,
2025
University of Montana
Montana Environmental Information Center V. Montana Department Of Environmental Quality, Alexis Karbowicz
Public Land & Resources Law Review
No abstract provided.
Law School News: Protecting The Waters 4-10-2025,
2025
Roger Williams University
Law School News: Protecting The Waters 4-10-2025, Andrew Clark, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Law School News: Better Than He Found It 4-24-2025,
2025
Roger Williams University
Law School News: Better Than He Found It 4-24-2025, Danna Lorch, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Law School News: Destined For Law: From Legal Dream To Valedictorian 05-13-2025,
2025
Roger Williams University School of Law
Law School News: Destined For Law: From Legal Dream To Valedictorian 05-13-2025, Jane Govednik
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Toward A Global Consensus On The "S" In Esg: Strengthening Human Rights And Corporate Accountability Through Global Governance,
2025
Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University
Toward A Global Consensus On The "S" In Esg: Strengthening Human Rights And Corporate Accountability Through Global Governance, Emma O'Connor
Pace International Law Review
This paper argues that the international community, led by the United Nations, must develop a coherent global framework for the “S” in Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) to strengthen corporate accountability and human rights protections. While environmental metrics in ESG have gained global traction, the social pillar remains fragmented, inconsistently defined, and weakly enforced, opening the door to impact washing, where companies misrepresent or exaggerate their positive social impact. Drawing from international, regional, and domestic case studies, this paper illustrates how this incoherence leads to economic, ethical, and operational harms for businesses and the global community. It argues that public governance …
Puerto Rico's Coast: Preservation Through Positive Obligations On Property Owners And The State In The Context Of Climate Change,
2025
University of Barcelona
Puerto Rico's Coast: Preservation Through Positive Obligations On Property Owners And The State In The Context Of Climate Change, Jaime Villeta-Garcia
Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy
The rise in sea level, the obvious rampant coastal erosion and the uncertain future due to climate change urge the need to rethink the coast, through property and administrative law. The security of life, property and the fair and orderly use of the ultra-valuable resources that is the coast depend on a new concept for properties in the coastal zone and its effective execution by a conscious and responsible State. Centered on the community of Ocean Park in San Juan, Puerto Rico, it’s no longer a question of whether coastal property rights can contribute to safeguarding the coast, but rather …
Introduction,
2025
Georgia State University College of Law
Introduction, Karen Johnston
Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy
This article provides an introduction to the Journal of Comparative Urban Law & Policy, the Study Space Program offered by Georgia State University College of Law, and the articles resulting from the Study Space Rio de Janeiro Program held in June 2024.
Finnish Fashion Lessons For The Creation Of A Sustainable Textiles Industry,
2025
The College of New Jersey
Finnish Fashion Lessons For The Creation Of A Sustainable Textiles Industry, Susanna Monseau, Kaisa Sorsa, Heidi Salokangas
Pace International Law Review
The detrimental effects of textiles and the fashion industry on the planet are well-known.
In its 2022 Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles (the EU Textile Strategy) the EU proposed aggressive actions to transform the textile industry to implement the commitments of Europe’s Green Deal and Circular Economy Action Plan. The Textile Strategy’s aim is simple but ambitious: to end fast fashion. Its proposals will regulate textile businesses along the whole supply chain, but the views of the smaller enterprises that make up the majority of the supply chain have been overlooked, even as larger players lobby for policy changes. …
Frankel: Law Of Seashore, Waters And Water Courses: Maine And Massachusetts,
2025
University of Maine School of Law
Frankel: Law Of Seashore, Waters And Water Courses: Maine And Massachusetts, Harriet Putnam Henry
Maine Law Review
The advance announcement of Law of Seashore, Waters and Water Courses: Maine and Massachusetts served to arouse a sense of anticipation among practitioners in Maine. The brochure foretold of a thorough analysis of the relationship of the colonial ordinances to the law pertaining to the land-sea interface, rivers, and great ponds. The book was described as "An Exhaustive Handbook on Water Rights in Maine and Massachusetts . . . valuable for lawyers, public officials and property owners." In the Frankel book, realization fell far short of anticipation.
Suggested Revisions In Maine's Planning And Land Use Control Enabling Legislation—Part Ii,
2025
University of Maine School of Law
Suggested Revisions In Maine's Planning And Land Use Control Enabling Legislation—Part Ii, Orlando E. Delogu
Maine Law Review
The process which transfers land from its natural or an unintensively used agricultural state to house lots, shopping centers, or industrial sites is often referred to as land subdivision. No more long-lasting or fundamental series of changes with respect to the land can be imagined; yet the process in Maine is not only unregulated by the state and by most local levels of government, but is not at present capable of being regulated in any meaningful sense of the word. No state statutes exist which impose even the most reasonable standards, limitations, or procedural safeguards on either the process of …
Legislative Discouragement Of Maine's Marine Industrial Growth,
2025
University of Maine School of Law
Legislative Discouragement Of Maine's Marine Industrial Growth, John H. Pursel
Maine Law Review
At common law the public rights to navigation and fishing could not be alienated by the King. Dry land and the land beneath the sea could be alienated but only so long as the public rights to navigation and fishing were preserved. This common law doctrine was rejected in 1842 by the United States Supreme Court as binding precedent for limiting the alienation of the public domain by the legislatures of the various states. In Martin v. Wadell the Court reasoned that this common law principle was not applicable because the people of the United States through their act of …
Environmental Jurisdiction In The Congress And The Executive,
2025
University of Maine School of Law
Environmental Jurisdiction In The Congress And The Executive, Edmund S. Muskie
Maine Law Review
Extraterrestrial exploration and a historic lunar success have helped give modern man a unique perspective on the earth and his natural environment. We have looked on our planet from the reaches of outer space and have seen how small, how alone, and how vulnerable we are. We have travelled to the moon and photographed Mars, but we have finally realized that no matter how far or how fast we grow, no matter how far afield our explorations take us, and no matter how great our vision, we must always return to earth. This is a discomfiting realization for a civilization …
Uncommon Controversy,
2025
University of Maine School of Law
Uncommon Controversy, David Getches
Maine Law Review
In the mid-nineteenth century the Indians of the Northwest were pressured by government agents into signing treaties ceding most of the land they had historically occupied to the United States. In each treaty, besides reserving small tracts of land for themselves, the Indians specifically reserved the right to fish "at all usual and accustomed grounds and stations." Because the lands which the Indians were permitted to reserve were selected so as "not to interfere with existing [non-Indian] claims, or with the progress of settlements," many traditional fishing places were located outside the reservations. The Indians' grudging acceptance of the treaties …
Conservation, Policy And The Role Of Counsel,
2025
University of Maine School of Law
Conservation, Policy And The Role Of Counsel, David J. Halperin
Maine Law Review
The conservation interests in the State of Maine have been roused to a furor by the decision of Maine's highest court in State v. Johnson. The case, in substance, holds that Maine's Wetlands Act is unconstitutional when applied to prohibit the filling of a specific segment of salt water marsh. While both the decision and the underlying statute are of considerable substantive interest, the case deserves particular study for the light it sheds on the role of counsel in helping the legal process accommodate new policy concerns. A note of caution must, of course, be sounded before seeking to generalize …
Constitutional Dilemmas Posed By State Policies Against Marine Pollution - The Maine Example,
2025
University of Maine School of Law
Constitutional Dilemmas Posed By State Policies Against Marine Pollution - The Maine Example, Daniel Wilkes
Maine Law Review
The physical fact about coastal pollution is that, since many of its harms are irreversible, it must be prevented and not just dealt with as it arises. The legal fact about coastal pollution is that legislation which aims to prevent pollutants must survive attacks under the due process, equal protection, commerce, and privileges and immunities clauses of the federal Constitution if we are not to lose entirely the enjoyment of our coastal waters. As the following discussion of the "Environmental Protection Package" passed by the First Special Session of the 104th Maine Legislature and the earlier Wetlands Act shows, judicial …
Ransoming The Maine Environment,
2025
University of Maine School of Law
Ransoming The Maine Environment, G. Graham Waite
Maine Law Review
The call for natural resource conservation is widely heard today. Purity of air and water are goals that most persons seem to endorse, at least in the abstract. The dollar costs of governmental programs for achieving relatively clean air and water doubtless are high, making questions of who bears them important. Some recent decisions of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court suggest that in Maine the major costs will be paid by taxpayers at large rather than by individual resource users.
A Proposal To Protect Maine From The Oilbergs Of The 70'S,
2025
University of Maine School of Law
A Proposal To Protect Maine From The Oilbergs Of The 70'S, Eugene C. Coughlin Iii
Maine Law Review
The oil industry is moving into Maine with plans to develop new oil ports and to build oil refineries along the coast. Although the Portland harbor is one of the busiest oil ports on the eastern seaboard, the enormous increase in oil transportation over Maine waters, as envisioned by the oil magnates, poses frightening consequences for Maine people. Responding to this threat and to a growing conservation lobby, as well as an aroused public, the 104th Legislature passed measures that hopefully will begin to cope with the problem. Hailed as landmark conservation legislation, the new laws go further than past …
Uncommon Controversy,
2025
University of Maine School of Law
Uncommon Controversy, David Getches
Maine Law Review
In the mid-nineteenth century the Indians of the Northwest were pressured by government agents into signing treaties ceding most of the land they had historically occupied to the United States. In each treaty, besides reserving small tracts of land for themselves, the Indians specifically reserved the right to fish "at all usual and accustomed grounds and stations." Because the lands which the Indians were permitted to reserve were selected so as "not to interfere with existing [non-Indian] claims, or with the progress of settlements," many traditional fishing places were located outside the reservations. The Indians' grudging acceptance of the treaties …
Conservation, Policy And The Role Of Counsel,
2025
University of Maine School of Law
Conservation, Policy And The Role Of Counsel, David J. Halperin
Maine Law Review
The conservation interests in the State of Maine have been roused to a furor by the decision of Maine's highest court in State v. Johnson. The case, in substance, holds that Maine's Wetlands Act is unconstitutional when applied to prohibit the filling of a specific segment of salt water marsh. While both the decision and the underlying statute are of considerable substantive interest, the case deserves particular study for the light it sheds on the role of counsel in helping the legal process accommodate new policy concerns. A note of caution must, of course, be sounded before seeking to generalize …
Constitutional Dilemmas Posed By State Policies Against Marine Pollution - The Maine Example,
2025
University of Maine School of Law
Constitutional Dilemmas Posed By State Policies Against Marine Pollution - The Maine Example, Daniel Wilkes
Maine Law Review
The physical fact about coastal pollution is that, since many of its harms are irreversible, it must be prevented and not just dealt with as it arises. The legal fact about coastal pollution is that legislation which aims to prevent pollutants must survive attacks under the due process, equal protection, commerce, and privileges and immunities clauses of the federal Constitution if we are not to lose entirely the enjoyment of our coastal waters. As the following discussion of the "Environmental Protection Package" passed by the First Special Session of the 104th Maine Legislature and the earlier Wetlands Act shows, judicial …
