This week’s post, Adapting the Paris Agreement, was written by Bonnie Smith at Vermont Law School.  Bonnie is currently a Staff Editor for Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Read the post here.

By Bonnie Smith, Staff Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate.  Read the original here and leave a comment.   Introduction For the first time in the history of international climate negotiations, adaptation has its own article in a legal text. Even more striking is that loss and damage, historically treated…

This week’s post, It Is Time For Oregon To Define Its Public Trust Duties, was written by Olivier Jamin, a 2L at Lewis & Clark Law School.  Olivier is currently the Online Journal Editor for Environmental Law. Read the post here!

By Olivier Jamin, a 2L at Lewis & Clark Law School, where he is the Online Journal Editor for Environmental Law.  This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment.   I. Introduction The public trust doctrine (PTD) is a concept under which states have the duty to preserve certain natural and cultural…

This week’s post, Towards a Middle Path: Loss & Damage in the 2015 Paris Agreement, was written by our own Maryam Al-Dabbagh! Maryam is currently a Graduate Editor on the NYU Environmental Law Journal. Read the post here!

Maryam Al-Dabbagh* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Click the link above or scroll through to leave a comment.  Introduction In the lead-up to the Paris talks, the issue of loss and damage (L&D) was portrayed to be one of the biggest hurdles in the quest for an agreement. L&D had already suffered multiple drawbacks in…

By Helen Marie Berg, General Member of the Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. The original post can be viewed here.   In January 2016, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder appealed to the federal government for a $96 million emergency aid grant in response to the tremendous and growing public…

This week’s post, Rising Seas in the Holy City: Preserving Historic Charleston in the Face of Global Climate Change, was written by Will Grossenbacher, former Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Environmental Law Journal. Read it here!

Will Grossenbacher* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment. From October 2–5, 2015, the State of South Carolina, and the City of Charleston in particular, experienced historic rains: sites in the Charleston area reported up to twenty-six inches of rain.[1] The downpour combined with high tides to create flooding…