Keynote Remarks: Re-Tooling Law And Legal Education For Food System Reform: Food Law And Policy In Practice,
2015
Seattle University School of Law
Keynote Remarks: Re-Tooling Law And Legal Education For Food System Reform: Food Law And Policy In Practice, Emily M. Broad Leib
Seattle University Law Review
Thank you for the opportunity to be with you today and to take part in this symposium on the important role law schools and lawyers can play in changing our food system. Food preferences and food choices are incredibly personal, but the way we produce and consume food, and its impacts on our environment, public health, and the safety of ourselves and others, make it a pressing societal issue as well.
Opening The Barnyard Door: Transparency And The Resurgence Of Ag-Gag & Veggie Libel Laws,
2015
Seattle University School of Law
Opening The Barnyard Door: Transparency And The Resurgence Of Ag-Gag & Veggie Libel Laws, Nicole E. Negowetti
Seattle University Law Review
Over the past several decades, as the agricultural system became increasingly industrialized and the steps from farm to plate multiplied, consumers became farther removed from the sources of their food. Until recently, most consumers in America were content to eat their processed, cheap, and filling foods without giving a second thought to how these foods were produced. The tides are changing. Increasingly, consumers are calling for more transparency in the food system. Repulsed by images of animal cruelty and shocked by unsavory food production practices, consumers want the food industry’s veil lifted and are demanding changes in food production. The …
Hyperlegality And Heightened Surveillance: The Case Of Threatened Species Lists,
2015
University at Buffalo School of Law
Hyperlegality And Heightened Surveillance: The Case Of Threatened Species Lists, Irus Braverman
Journal Articles
My contribution to the Debate "Thinking about Law and Surveillance" focuses on the project of governing nonhuman species through care, briefly pointing to how law and surveillance are interwoven in this context and to how conservation's biopolitical regimes are increasingly becoming more abstract, standardized, calculable, and algorithmic in scope. I argue that conservation’s focus on governing through care lends itself to heightened modes of surveillance and to hyperlegality - namely, to the intensified inspection and regulation of both governed and governing actors. I start with some preliminary explanations about my atypical use of the terms surveillance, law, and biopolitics.
Newsroom: Logan On Bp Settlement,
2015
Roger Williams University
Newsroom: Logan On Bp Settlement, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Intellectual Property Rights In Virtual Environments: Considering The Rights Of Owners, Programmers And Virtual Avatars,
2015
The University of Akron
Intellectual Property Rights In Virtual Environments: Considering The Rights Of Owners, Programmers And Virtual Avatars, Woodrow Barfield
Akron Law Review
An emerging issue in online role-playing games is whether the licensor or participant owns the virtual property (such as a virtual avatar) created while the game is being played...Such rights have real world consequences for the objects created in the virtual world...Commercial software has been designed to allow people to create their own interactive, emoting 3D avatar using photographs of their individual faces, and their own unique voice as templates...Virtual environments can be designed for single inhabitants, such as a solo flight trainee, or for many, simultaneous participants... Further, people who spend significant amounts of time in virtual environments are …
Please Turn Your Lights Off, The Turtles Are Nesting: Ensuring That Federal, State, And Local Laws Help Guide Endangered Marine Turtle Hatchlings In Florida To The Right Source Of Light,
2015
Florida A&M University College of Law
Please Turn Your Lights Off, The Turtles Are Nesting: Ensuring That Federal, State, And Local Laws Help Guide Endangered Marine Turtle Hatchlings In Florida To The Right Source Of Light, Cameryn Justice Rivera
Student Works
In Florida, artificial lighting is a huge problem for marine turtle hatchlings and nesting mothers. Part I of this paper provides background information on sea turtle behavioral patterns in nesting and hatching, while also highlighting the problems of disorientation and nesting deterrence. Part II examines federal and state laws that authorize and delegate sea turtle oversight protections, administer legal and practical protection, and attempt to enforce the laws to prevent sea turtle disturbances or deaths. Part III discusses local ordinance regulations on artificial lighting and comments on the Model Lighting Ordinance in Florida. Part IV analyzes sea turtle law coordination …
Implementing A Carbon Tax In Florida Under The Clean Power Plan: Policy Considerations,
2015
Florida State University College of Law
Implementing A Carbon Tax In Florida Under The Clean Power Plan: Policy Considerations, Chris Hastings
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
What Is A Pond? Michigan Court Of Appeals Interprets “Waters Of The State” Under Michigan Law,
2015
Wayne State University
What Is A Pond? Michigan Court Of Appeals Interprets “Waters Of The State” Under Michigan Law, Nick Schroeck, Justin Serk
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Transportation: Opportunities In The Northeast And Mid-Atlantic,
2015
University of New Mexico - School of Law
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Transportation: Opportunities In The Northeast And Mid-Atlantic, Gabriel Pacyniak
Faculty Scholarship
The report finds that clean transportation policies could cut greenhouse gas emissions between 29 to 40 percent in the TCI region by 2030. A comprehensive implementation of state policies could result in net cost savings of up to $72.5 billion over 15 years for businesses and consumers, along with tens of thousands of new jobs and improvements in public health.
Environmental Law,
2015
Mercer University School of Law
Environmental Law, Travis M. Timble
Mercer Law Review
In 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, addressing an issue of first impression, rejected the district court's use of a Lone Pine case-management order as a means of testing the sufficiency of the plaintiffs' pleadings in a state law environmental torts case. The court also interpreted Florida law to mean that plaintiffs are not required to allege that groundwater contamination exceeded regulatory maximum contaminant levels for drinking water to maintain their claims and that they could recover "stigma" damages to their property without alleging actual contamination. The United States District Court for the Middle District …
The Damage From Mega-Sporting Events In Brazil,
2015
Pace University School of Law
The Damage From Mega-Sporting Events In Brazil, J. Justin Woods
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Student Publications
Over the past several years, Brazil’s federal government and the city and state governments of Rio de Janeiro have invested tens of billions of dollars to develop the transportation, stadium, tourist, communications and security infrastructure required to host the 2007 Pan American Games, 2014 World Cup, and 2016 Summer Olympics. As Brazil seeks to use these mega- sporting events to assert itself as a major economic player on the word stage, its strategy demonstrates how hosting mega-events serves to attract regional and global capital, and to reinforce unequal power structures at the expense of the public treasury, environmental quality and …
Enduring Acequias: Wisdom Of The Land, Knowledge Of The Water By Juan Estevan Arellano,
2015
University of New Mexico
Enduring Acequias: Wisdom Of The Land, Knowledge Of The Water By Juan Estevan Arellano, Bianca Smoker
Natural Resources Journal
No abstract provided.
Water Ethics: A Values Approach To Solving The Water Crisis By David Groenfelt,
2015
University of New Mexico
Water Ethics: A Values Approach To Solving The Water Crisis By David Groenfelt, Robin James
Natural Resources Journal
No abstract provided.
Koontz V. St. Johns River Water Management District: The Constitutionality Of Monetary Exactions In Land Use Planning,
2015
University of Montana
Koontz V. St. Johns River Water Management District: The Constitutionality Of Monetary Exactions In Land Use Planning, John M. Newman
Montana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Sex, Gender And The Chemicals Management Plan,
2015
Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
Sex, Gender And The Chemicals Management Plan, Dayna Nadine Scott, Sarah Lewis
Articles & Book Chapters
Chemical substances are found everywhere in our environment. As Chapter 1 makes clear, whether it be at home, outdoors, or in the workplace, we are continuously coming into contact with various chemicals through our air, water, food, cosmetics, clothes, personal care products, and everyday household items (Cooper, Vanderlinden, and Ursitti 2011; Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment 2008). As our detection methods improve, we are increasingly forced to confront the evidence of these exposures: biomonitoring studies now show that nearly everyone has measurable amounts of almost all known toxic chemicals stored somewhere in their bodies (CDC 2013; Environmental Defence …
Is Fracking An Inflammatory Word?,
2015
University of Dayton
Is Fracking An Inflammatory Word?, Blake Watson
School of Law Faculty Publications
Hydraulic fracturing is a method of oil and gas extraction. It involves the pumping of a mixture of proppants, chemicals, and large amounts of water into wells to exert pressure and fracture rock formations, thereby allowing otherwise “trapped” gas and oil to flow more freely. See Railroad Commission of Texas v. Citizens for a Safe Future and Clean Water, 336 S.W.3d 619, 621 (Tex. 2011) (describing the “fracing” process). With the development of horizontal drilling and more effective lubricants, it is now possible to remove “unconventional” sources of oil and gas located in shale and other dense substrata. Positive …
Front Matter,
2015
University of New Mexico
Front Matter, Natural Resources Journal
Natural Resources Journal
No abstract provided.
Water 4.0: The Past, Present, And Future Of The World's Most Vital Resource By David Sedlak,
2015
University of New Mexico
Water 4.0: The Past, Present, And Future Of The World's Most Vital Resource By David Sedlak, Brian Smith
Natural Resources Journal
No abstract provided.
To Transfer Or Not To Transfer, That Is The Question: An Analysis Of Public Lands Title In The West,
2015
University of Montana
To Transfer Or Not To Transfer, That Is The Question: An Analysis Of Public Lands Title In The West, Andrea Collins
Montana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Climate Change: Leveraging Legacy,
2015
Vanderbilt University Law School
Climate Change: Leveraging Legacy, Michael P. Vandenbergh, Kaitlin T. Raimi
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This Article explores whether a private governance initiative can harness
legacy concerns to address climate change. The socio-temporal trap is an
important barrier to climate change mitigation: The costs of reducing carbon
emissions will be incurred by this generation, but most of the benefits will
accrue to future generations. Research suggests that social influences—
including concerns about legacy—can induce individuals to overcome
collective action problems, but individuals know that future generations will
not have information about who acted today in ways meriting social sanctions
or rewards. Insufficient information may undermine three aspects of legacy-
driven behavior: the concern about how …
