By Luke Grunbaum* This post is part of the Environmental Law Review Syndicate. Click here to see the original post and leave a comment. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) establishes the basic principles and goals for future international agreements on climate change. However, incorporating the ambitious policies and provisions of the UNFCCC into a binding global agreement…
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…
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 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…