Academia
Highlights from a Property Exam
It’s springtime, so a professor’s fancy turns to — grading exams. Well, not fancy, but it is part of the job — perhaps the most boring. That’s why I’m so grateful to those students who inject levity into the task — whether they intended to do so or not. Students are writing quickly, so sometimes …
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CONTINUE READINGMay 23rd Sacramento Lunchtime Panel on Meeting California’s Renewable Energy Goals
For Legal Planet readers who will be in the Sacramento area next Monday, UCLA and UC Berkeley Schools of Law will be hosting a free lunchtime panel on policies to help California meet its renewable energy goals. The keynote speaker will be Ken Alex, Governor Brown’s Senior Advisor and Director of the Office of Planning …
CONTINUE READINGGood news, bad news on understanding climate science: WaPo and Los Alamitos ed boards
You can’t get to good climate policy if policymakers don’t believe (or don’t profess to believe) that there’s a problem to fix. With this truism in mind, it’s kind of a “two roads diverged in the woods” morning for understanding climate science and policy. First we have the editorial board of the Washington Post, not …
CONTINUE READINGNew Legal Planet iPhone/iPad app provides easy mobile access to blog
I know many of you wake up daily wondering whether there might ever be a way to bring Legal Planet directly to your iPhone or iPad, with features such as push notifications, easy scanning and scrolling of recent content, designation of unread and previously-read posts, saving of favorites, and easy emailing of posts to friends …
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CONTINUE READINGThe Public Trust Doctrine: A Prophet Without Honor
Michael C. Blumm and R.D. Guthrie of Lewis & Clark Law School have an interesting new paper soon to appear in the U.C. Davis Law Review, pointing out that the public trust doctrine has assumed enormous significance in the jurisprudence of several countries around the world, including India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Uganda, Kenya, South …
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CONTINUE READINGThe Expanding Number of Environmental Law Teachers
In a previous posting, I remarked on the increase in the number of publications in environmental law. I thought it would be useful to look at the number of law professors in the field. This was not a rigorous social science survey, so the numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. Some caveats …
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CONTINUE READINGThink 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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