Liz Rasheed* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. You are viewing the original post. Leave a comment below! I. Introduction: What is Illicit Wildlife Trafficking? Illicit wildlife trafficking refers to “any environment-related crime that involves the illegal trade, smuggling, poaching, capture or collection of endangered species, protected wildlife (including animals and plants that are subject to harvest…
This week’s Environmental Law Review Syndicate post, Is CITES Endangered?, was authored by our very own Submissions Editor, Liz Rasheed. Way to go, Liz! Read the post here, and leave a comment.
Gillian Schroff* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Click here to see the original post and leave a comment. I. Introduction Although only a few inches in size, the delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) has become a topic of intense debate in water-scarce California. When the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS or Service) determined that these…
This week’s post has been submitted to the Environmental Law Review Syndicate by Gillian Schroff, the Form & Style Editor for Environmental Law at Lewis and Clark Law School. Her piece is titled What is Reasonable?: The Consideration of Economic Effects in Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives Under the Endangered Species Act. Read it here! See the original post here to leave a comment.
Kristen Mae Rodgers is a Note Editor on the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Click here to see the original post. Vermont is leading the nation in the local, sustainable food movement and the new food economy. In fact, Vermont is the frontrunner in farm stands, community supported agriculture (CSA) programs,…
This week’s Environmental Law Review Syndicate post comes from Kristen Rodgers, a Note Editor on the Vermont Environmental Law Journal. Her post is titled Trying to Find a Balance: Agricultural Land Conservation vs. Development in the Green Mountain State. Read it here!
If you’re on the hunt for top-notch academic scholarship on environmental law, look no further–the first two issues of Volume 23 are now available online! Take a look at articles and student notes from issues 23.1 and 23.2 here.
This week’s post, A Perfect Storm for Michigan’s Renewable Portfolio Standard?, is written by Sarah Stellberg, Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal for Environmental and Administrative Law. Read it here!
Sarah Stellberg is a third-year student at the University of Michigan Law School, where she is Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Click here to see the original post and leave a comment. In his June 7, 2013 opinion in Illinois Commerce Commission v. FERC,[i] Judge Richard Posner…
The first student-written piece of scholarship submitted to the Environmental Law Review Syndicate is now available on the NYU Environmental Law Journal website! The piece, titled “A Leading Cause of Everything: One Industry That Is Destroying Our Planet and Our Ability to Thrive on It,” was written by Christopher Hyner, a 3L at Georgetown University Law Center and a Managing Editor for the Georgetown…