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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.
Latest 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
- Foreward
Notes: - Loose Canons: An Activist Supreme Court Guns for the Endangered Species Act
- Settling the Tradeoffs Between Voluntary Cleanup of Contaminated Sites and Cooperation with the Government under CERCLA
- Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp. Paving the Way for "Cap and Trade"?
- Giving States More to Stand On: Why Special Solicitude Should Not Be Necessary
- The Next Step in Revitalizing RCRA: Maine People’s Alliance and the Importance of a Broad Right to Intervene
- Rising Phoenix-Like from the Ashes: An Argument for Expanded Corporate Successor Liability under CERCLAReversing the Trend Towards Species Extinction, or Merely Halting It?
- The (Almost) All-American Canal: CDEM v. U.S. and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice in Transboundary Resource Management
- What Went Wrong In San Francisco Baykeeper v. Cargill Salt Division?
- The Ozone Saga
- Water Supplies Finally Take Center Stage in the Land Use Planning Arena
- A Necessary Collision: Climate Change, Land Use, and the Limits of AB 32 In Brief:
- Ninth Circuit Prevents California From Regulating Maritime Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- A New Mandate for Federal CAFE Standards from the Ninth Circuit
- Engine Manufacturer’s Association v. South Coast Air Quality Management District – Legitimizing the Market Participant Doctrine as a Means of Limiting Mobile Source Emissions
Upcoming Issue
The articles in this issue are centered on two broad themes: 1) improving the environmental regulatory experience through learning from other states, countries and international experiences and 2) the failures of administrative law, both in doctrine and in practice, to thoroughly and coherently manage environmental and other problems. The issue of climate is a third theme that heightens the concerns raised by several of the articles.
Table of Contents
- Environmental Leadership Programs: Toward an Empirical Assessment of Their Performance
- Synthesizing TSCA and REACH: Practical Principles for Chemical Regulation Reform
- Goblets of Fire: Regulation of Global Warming Amid Potential Impediments Under the U.S. Constitution
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading In New Zealand: Trailblazing Comprehensive Cap And Trade
- The Transformation of Modern Administrative Law: Changing Administrations and Environmental Guidance Documents
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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.
Recent Articles
- The First One Hundred Days: Ten Things President-Elect Obama Should Do to Confront the Climate Crisis
The Øresund Bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden. Photo by: skane.com © sydpol.com
Land Use and Global Warming
- Trains Deliver the Goods
Swiss Train, Switzerland. Photo by Max Baumhefner
- Land Use and Climate Change: Is it Time for a National Land Use Policy?
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
- China's Environment After the Olympics
- Building Energy Efficiency in China
- Enhancing China’s Environmental Governance: Challenges and Opportunities
Past Articles
California is leading the global response to environmental and energy challenges. These articles 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
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