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Think Tanks, Advocacy Tanks, and the Kleiman Rule
Dan is absolutely right to distinguish between real think tanks and what I called “fake think tanks” (and what he calls, more generously, “advocacy tanks.”). But what we need is some criterion for distinguishing the two: one key move of the modern Conservative Movement has been to dismiss all study as simply being the product …
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CONTINUE READINGThink Tanks versus Advocacy Tanks
The mistake is viewing the Heritage Foundation as in some sense the counterpart of RAND, let alone the Harvard Economics Department — rather than being the pro-business counterpart of Sierra Club on environmental issues or of the AFL-CIO on labor issues.
CONTINUE READINGThe Burgeoning Volume of Environmental Law Scholarship
I’ve had the impression that, over the time I’ve been following environmental law, there’s been a dramatic increase in the amount of scholarship in the field. I did a search of the Westlaw JLR database for (“environmental regulation” “air pollution” “water pollution” “endangered species”) with data restrictions. This search is only an approximation but it …
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CONTINUE READINGEcology Law Quarterly publishes Volume 37 number 4
ELQ’s latest issue, 37(4), is now available online. It begins with a warm tribute to the late Phil Frickey. The articles cover a wide range of topics, from Canadian environmental to renewable energy siting, genetics and the Endangered Species Act, and the role of tribes in water pollution regulation in Maine. The issue closes with …
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CONTINUE READINGNew life for a founding member of the environmental law blogosphere
Welcome back to Environmental Law Prof Blog, which has been relaunched by a diverse and energetic group of young environmental law profs. Contributors include Lincoln Davies, Brigham Daniels, Blake Hudson, Lesley McAllister (a PhD graduate of Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group), and Hannah Wiseman. Here’s how they describe their blog: Welcome to the Relaunch of …
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CONTINUE READINGUCLA Law Symposium: Perspectives on Climate Change
Please join us at UCLA Law School on April 15th for the 2011 Environmental Law Symposium, Perspectives on Climate Change, Pollution and the Clean Air Act. The keynote speaker will be Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. Please RSVP. You can also check out the program for more information. Panel …
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CONTINUE READINGNew Assistant-Dean/Law-Professor Position at Pace
I was asked to post information about a new academic job opening at Pace Law School. This isn’t something that we’ve done before on this blog, although we did give a list of schools with openings earlier in the academic year. But providing this information seems like a useful service to our readers and to …
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CONTINUE READINGVideo and print materials online from our conference Local Agencies on the Cutting Edge: Emerging Challenges to Local Land Use Authority
On February 11, UCLA Law hosted a symposium, Local Agencies on the Cutting Edge: Emerging Challenges to Local Land Use Authority. This daylong conference addressed important new developments in local land-use law. We now have a webpage devoted to the symposium, including links to video recordings of all the day’s sessions, as well as written materials …
CONTINUE READINGRemembering Warren Christopher
News of the recent death of Warren Christopher prompted memories of a meeting I attended in 1987 — several years before Christopher was appointed Secretary of State by Bill Clinton. A major California utility had hired Christopher’s Los Angeles law firm to take its side in a regulatory proceeding with several billion dollars at risk. …
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CONTINUE READINGThe Worst Supreme Court Environmental Decision?
Recently appearing in my in-box is Pepperdine Law School’s latest law porn, a glossy brochure about its upcoming symposium, “Supreme Mistakes: Exploring the Most Maligned Decisions in Supreme Court History.” Dan will speak, but unless he decides to talk about it, environmental law doesn’t figure to get on the agenda: none of the other speakers has particular …
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