Academia
UCLA Emmett Study Says Cool Roofs are Way Cool (and Bring Lots of Environmental Benefits)
UCLA Law’s Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment released a new report today called Bright Roofs, Big City: Keeping L.A. Cool Through an Aggressive Cool Roof Program. The report is the second Anthony Pritzker Environmental Law and Policy Brief issued by the Center. Cara Horowitz, the author of the report, used a dataset …
CONTINUE READINGFinding the Right Words (Judicially)
I recently posted about when various key environmental terms surfaced in the law review literature. It occurred to me that it would be interested to compare with the courts, so I did a similar search of Westlaw’s database for all state and federal court opinions. Here is how the results compare: Term Law reviews Courts …
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CONTINUE READINGWhen We Found the Right Words
It’s hard to talk about something if you don’t have the right words to designate it easily. So it’s interesting to look for the first appearance for some of the key words in the legal literature. Presumably, this words were in non-legal use a bit earlier, but their first use in law reviews tells us …
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CONTINUE READINGSecret Synagogue Reading for Environmentalists
As the Jewish High Holy Days approach, it is of course time for thinking deeply about…. what books you will read in shul during services. Rabbis extol Rosh Hashanah Mussaf as liturgical brilliance, but the rest of us find it to be spiritual chloroform. Well, fortunately enough, the Jewish environmentalist literature has gotten better over the last …
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CONTINUE READINGIf Textualism Isn’t Dead, It’s Badly Wounded
This one is too good not to blog. Strictly speaking, it’s an immigration case, but it has interesting implications for all statutes and especially environmental ones. Jawid Habibi is a lawful resident alien, but not someone you’d want to hang around with. He was convicted of domestic misdemeanor battery in California, and then received a 365-day …
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CONTINUE READINGInterested in Teaching Environmental Law?
Updated Oct. 10, 2011. This is a list of U.S. schools that are searching for someone in environmental law, natural resources, or energy law this year. If you’re looking for such a position, hopefully this will give you a head start. There may be other law schools which have some interest in hiring in this …
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CONTINUE READINGChoosing a Law School — Advice for Future Environmental Lawyers
I get asked fairly often for advice on choosing a law school, and I thought it might be worth offering some ideas in a more public setting. Here are some thoughts you might consider as you’re looking for a place to study environmental law. Program Rankings. Berkeley does well in the U.S. News ranking of …
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CONTINUE READINGEnviro Videos
Public Policy Degree, a site aimed at policy students, has assembled fifty YouTube videos relating to the environment. Besides being fun, it may give the more tech-savvy teachers among our audience some resources to include in presentations. I noticed that one of the videos is by former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, who is now teaching …
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CONTINUE READINGRick Perry Should Be Confined to a Padded Room, Chapter One
Governor Rick “Crotch” Perry is somewhat of an expert at saying inane things, a trend that has accelerated since he declared his Presidential candidacy. He flirts with secession, he accuses the Fed Chairman of treason, he was against cervical cancer before he was for it, he wants to repeal the 17th Amendment, he claims that …
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CONTINUE READINGSome Thoughts About Environmental Disasters
In an environmental disaster, a disaster causes environmental harm, environmental change causes an acute risk to humans, or both take place. Examples include the BP Oil Spill, the London killer for of 1952, the 2003 European heat wave, and the 2011 Japanese tsunami. Climate change will intensify the connection between disaster issues and the environment. …
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