Academia

Environmental Law Faculty Searches

There are a fair number of law schools currently looking for environmental law teachers.  I thought this information might be useful to people who are in the job market currently.  Here are the searches that I’m aware of: American University Washington College of Law is looking for a tenure-track or tenured lateral environmental law professor.  …

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Hot Off the Presses

So to speak.  Our friend and colleague Matt Kahn’s new book, Climatolopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future, has just been published.  Matt is a real rarity among economists in two ways: 1)  He writes in English; and 2) He does not think that economics can explain everything and anything, and has …

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California Clearing House on Scientific Review Panel

The California Report correspondent Amy Standen recently recounted the dismissal (or failure to reappoint, depending on your perspective) of a group of scientists from CalEPA’s Scientific Review Panel.  Little explanation for the action were given, although Standen notes that John Froines, a professor in the UCLA School of Public Health, also chaired a committee that …

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20 Worst Environmental Destroyers of All Time

My friend and colleague Steve Bainbridge picks up on a list going around Red Blogistan, concerning the supposed “20 Worst Americans of All Time.”  Steve’s a conservative Republican, and has no love for progressive politics, but even he says, “I find the collated list pretty much of a joke. It reflects the partisan passions of the …

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California’s Proposition 8 overturned – victory for gay marriage, and example of the impact of law school-based policy research

Perhaps everything in the world might be related in some way to climate change.  Perhaps not.  I’m having a hard time seeing how this topic in particular relates to climate change.  But it does relate to our blog, in that the decision illustrates well the importance and relevance of law school-based academic research centers — …

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Three New Perspectives on Environmental Issues

Three recent books provide fresh and interesting perspectives on environmental law.  The authors all graduated from law school in the past twenty years, and they all have most of their careers ahead of them.  All of this augurs well for the future of environmental scholarship. The first book is Doug Kysar’s Regulating from Nowhere. Kysar …

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ELQ’s 2010 annual review

Congratulations to Ecology Law Quarterly on publication of this year’s Annual Review of Environmental and Natural Resources Law. Check out these fine articles: Filling the Regulatory Gap: A Proposal for Restructuring the Clean Water Act’s Two-Permit System, by Robert B. Moreno Reasonable Bases for Apportioning Harm under CERCLA, by Robert Guo Energy v. Water, by …

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The environmental community mourns the passing of climate science giant Stephen Schneider

Dr. Stephen Schneider, the pioneering Stanford climate scientist whose passion for the topic and concern for the earth’s future led him to become an outspoken public advocate for the role of scientific evidence and scientific judgment in shaping climate policy, has died at age 65 of an apparent heart attack. Andy Revkin of the New …

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A new environmental law prof blog

Jason Czarnezki, who teaches environmental and natural resources law at Vermont Law School, has a new blog, Czarnezki.com: Life, Law, and the Environment. Jason often has interesting things to say about the relationship of everyday life to environmentalism and environmental law. His blog is sure to be worth checking out.

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Philip P. Frickey — A Life in the Law

I am sad beyond words to have to report the death of my friend and colleague Phil Frickey. His death is a great loss to Berkeley and the legal academy more generally.  In terms of his scholarship, Phil was a major figure in constitutional law, but was probably best known among legal academics for his …

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