By Garrett M. Gee, J.D. Candidate, William & Mary Law School, 2016; Staff Member, William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review Abstract: This article explains the process to convert a rail line to a recreational trail under the Rails-to-Trails Act and addresses some legal issues that often arise from such conversions. This post is part of the Environmental Law…

This week’s post, Ethical Convergence and the Endangered Species Act, was written by Caitlin Troyer Busch, J.D. Candidate at Stanford Law School. Read the post here.

Caitlin Troyer Busch, Stanford Law School, J.D. Candidate 2017 This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Read the original here and leave a comment.   Introduction The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is both lauded and criticized as one of the most powerful environmental laws ever enacted. Proponents of the law praise it for protecting thousands of endangered…

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…