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The third issue of Ecology Law Currents focuses on China.
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Produced by students at Berkeley Law, Ecology Law Quarterly is one of the nation’s most respected and widely read environmental law journals.
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Volume 35 Number 2
This issue should be read by policymakers and scholars interested in the evolution of environmental jurisprudence and its implications for the most pressing issues of the day.
Table of Contents
- Environmental Infrastructure
- Natural Resources, Congestion, And The Feminist Future
- When to Open Infrastructure Access
- An Economic Dynamic Approach To The Infrastructure Commons
Comment: -
The Water Moratorium: Takings, Markets, And Public Choice Implications Of Water Districts
In Brief : -
Muddying Tribal Waters
Riverkeeper, Inc. v.EPA
- NRDC’s Battle Against the Navy
Upcoming Issue
Volume 35 Number 3
Annual Review :
A comprehensive review of the year's most important decisions and issues in environmental law and policy.
Table of Contents
- Notes:
- The Ozone Saga
- What Went Wrong In San Francisco Baykeeper v. Cargill Salt Division?
- Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp. Paving the Way for "Cap and Trade"?
- Settling the Tradeoffs Between Voluntary Cleanup of Contaminated Sites and Cooperation with the Government under CERCLA
- Giving States More to Stand On: Why Special Solicitude Should Not Be Necessary
- Reversing the Trend Towards Species Extinction, or Merely Halting It?
- Loose Canons: An Activist Supreme Court Guns for the Endangered Species Act
- The (Almost) All-American Canal: CDEM v. U.S. and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice in Transboundary Resource Management
- Rising Phoenix-Like from the Ashes: An Argument for Expanded Corporate Successor Liability under CERCLA
- A Necessary Collision: Climate Change, Land Use, and the Limits of AB 32
- Water Supplies Finally Take Center Stage in the Land Use Planning Arena
- The Next Step in Revitalizing RCRA: Maine People’s Alliance and the Importance of a Broad Right to Intervene
- In Brief:
- Engine Manufacturer’s Association v. South Coast Air Quality Management District – Legitimizing the Market Participant Doctrine as a Means of Limiting Mobile Source Emissions
- Ninth Circuit Prevents California From Regulating Maritime Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- A New Mandate for Federal CAFE Standards from the Ninth Circuit
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ELQ Submissions
The ELQ Editorial Board welcomes articles for review and publication consideration. ELQ publishes articles and book reviews written by law professors, practitioners, and professionals outside the legal community. ELQ also strongly supports student scholarship and often publishes exceptional pieces written by JD and advanced degree law students. We publish articles covering a diversity of environmental topics, each with a sound argument and a novel approach.
Ecology Law Currents, ELQ’s online-only publication, features short-form commentary and analysis on timely environmental law and policy issues.
Latest Issue
Volume 35 Number 3
The third issue of Ecology Law Currents focuses on China. Looking forward from the Olympic games, how can China build on steps it has already taken towards sustainability and conservation?
Pavilion at the Summer Palace , Beijing. Photo by Christopher Williams
Past Issue
Volume 35 Number 2
The second issue of Ecology Law Currents focuses on how California is leading the global response to environmental and energy challenges. This issue features contributions from panelists at the California Center for Environmental Law and Policy's April 2008 Conference.
Salt Point, California at New Years. Photo by Max Baumhefner
Table of Contents
- California & the Future of Environmental Law & Policy
- Can California’s Water Problems Be Solved?
- Global Warming Tort Litigation: The Real “Public Nuisance”
- Integrating Land Use and Transportation Policy in California: The Legislature’s Response
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Currents Submissions
We are now soliciting articles for our fourth issue on the subject of national environmental priorities for the post-Bush presidential agenda. Please send your submissions with a subject line: Post-Bush Priorities Submission. All pieces must be submitted by October 10 in order to be considered for publication in the next issue.
Ecology Law Currents welcomes the submissions of law professors, law students, practitioners, as well as multidisciplinary professors and graduate students. Because our aim is to publish in a timely and efficient manner, we will not consider pieces longer than 3,000 words, including footnotes. Articles should be on currently relevant environmental issues or cases, and must make an argument. They should be lightly footnoted, but references to any hard data must be cited. Submissions are accepted in electronic format only. To submit an article, or for any inquiries regarding Ecology Law Currents, please email ecologylawcurrents@boalt.org




