By Caitlin Brown Caitlin Brown is a 3L at Berkeley Law and Co-Editor in Chief of Ecology Law Quarterly.   This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate (ELRS).  Read the original at Ecology Law Quarterly’s website.  Introduction The National Park Service manages over 84 million acres of land divided between 413 different sites, and in 2015 alone,…

Read within: Our Money Is Safe, But The Planet Is Not: How The Carbon Bubble Will Cause Havoc For The Environment, But Not The Stock Market.  This week’s article was written by Breanna Hayes, Managing Editor of Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.    

By Breanna Hayes, Managing Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. I. Introduction Human use of fossil fuels dates back to prehistoric times.[1]  Before the Industrial Revolution, humans mostly relied on wood, wind, and water as energy sources.[2]  But as the Industrial Revolution progressed, humans developed a dependence on fossil fuels.[3] …

This week’s post, The Importance of GIS in Emergency Management, was written by Monika Holser, UCLA School of Law, Class of 2018.  Read it here.

By Monika Holser, UCLA School of Law, Class of 2018 This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment. GIS (geographic information system) is a computer system for “capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on the Earth’s surface.”[1]  It allows multiple layers of information to be displayed at…

This week’s post was written by NYU ELJ’s very own Julie Amadeo, J.D. 2016! Read her post, Judging a Book by its Cover:  The Tension between Evidentiary Gatekeeping and Compensatory Theories of Tort.  

By Julie Amadeo, J.D. 2016, New York University School of Law  This article has been adapted from a larger work.   This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. I. Introduction Human minds are primed to jump to conclusions. Call them intuitions, or things we just know, our ability to draw conclusions is a survival instinct, developed over…

This week’s post, Constitutions & the Environment: Comparative Approaches to Environmental Protection and the Struggle to Translate Rights into Enforcement, was written by Kyle Burns, J.D. Candidate (2017) at University of Virginia School of Law.   Read the post here.

Kyle Burns* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment. Introduction Every nation around the world faces ecological hardships. Almost every nation has responded with a legal regime that attempts to ensure environmental protection. These environmental law schemes come in various forms. Some nations place environmental protection at the highest…

This week’s post, With Energy Law Federalism Under Construction, State Policymaking May Be Delayed, was written by John Bullock, J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School.   Read the post here.