Academia
Congratulations to Berkeley Law alum Kassie Siegel
Last week, the Daily Journal named Kassie Siegel, Berkeley Law ’00, one of the most influential lawyers of the decade in California. Kassie directs the Center for Biological Diversity’s highly successful Climate Law Institute. I can’t send you to the Daily Journal story, because their web site requires a subscription, but you can read the …
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CONTINUE READINGWomen Know More About Climate Change, Men Think They Do
Sociologist Aaron McCright, in a recently published academic article, analysed 7 years of Gallup polling data on environmental issues (from 2001-2008) and reached these startling (not) conclusions: women have a greater scientific understanding of climate change than men do; women are more likely than men to worry that climate change is a large problem; but men think they …
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CONTINUE READINGWelcoming A New Environmental Law Blog
Pace Law School has launched a new blog, Earth Law. The contributors include these Pace faculty members: David Cassuto Karl Coplan Alexandra Dunn Daniel Estrin Richard Ottinger Ann Powers Christopher Rizzo We’ll look forward to reading Green Law in days to come. There’s far too much happening in the field for any one blog to …
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CONTINUE READINGEnvironmental 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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CONTINUE READINGHot 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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CONTINUE READINGCalifornia 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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CONTINUE READING20 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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CONTINUE READINGCalifornia’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 — …
CONTINUE READINGThree 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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CONTINUE READINGELQ’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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