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The first issue of Ecology Law Currents is featured on ELQ’s new website. Currents provides a timely forum for the varying perspectives of law professors, practitioners, policy makers, and students. The new site also makes ELQ’s print journal available online, features the “Boalt Environmental Events Calendar,” and makes donating to ELQ and joining our alumni network much easier.
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Produced by students at the UC Berkeley School of Law, Ecology Law Quarterly is one of the nation’s most respected and widely read environmental law journals.
Latest Issue
Volume 34 Number 4
This issue should be read by policymakers and others interested in federal-state environmental regulatory gaps, assured water supply laws, the role of international tribunals in environmental problems, and the obstacles voter referenda and initiatives pose to "smart growth."
Table of Contents
- Revitalizing the Presumption Against Preemption to Prevent Regulatory Gaps: Railroad Deregulation and Waste Transfer Stations
- Just a Big, “Hot Fuss”? Assessing the Value of Connecting Suburban Sprawl, Land Use, and Water Rights through Assured Supply Laws
- The Role of International Tribunals in Natural Resource Disputes in Latin America
- Book Reviewed:
Smart Growth Meets the Neighbors
A Review Essay of Jonathan Levine's Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land-Use.
Upcoming Issue
Volume 35 Number 1
The upcoming issue of ELQ will feature articles from a number of distinguished scholars, covering the topics included in the following table of contents.
Table of Contents
- Background Principles and the Rule of Law: Fifteen Years After Lucas
- The Perils of a Half-Built Bridge: Risk Perception, Shifting Majorities, and the Nuclear Power Debate
- Transforming Water Transfers: The Evolution of Water Transfer Case Law and the NPDES Water Transfers Proposed Rule
- A Solid Foundation: Belize's Chalillo Dam and Environmental Decisionmaking
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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 1
We are pleased to present the inaugural issue of Ecology Law Currents, which focuses on the nuclear energy debate in the context of climate change.
Nuclear Power Plant in Ohu, Bavaria. Photo by Klaus Leidorf (leidorf.blogspot.com)
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents—Vol.35 No.1 PDF
- Introduction to the First Issue
- Licensing the Rebirth of Nuclear Power: A Primer
- Resolving the Spent Fuel Issue for New Nuclear Power Plants
- The Externalities of Nuclear Power: First, Assume we Have a Can Opener . . .
- Relative Risk: Global Warming and Imported Fossil Fuels vs. Nuclear Power
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions under CEQA – Costs and Opportunities
- Would it be Unethical to Dump Radioactive Wastes in the Ocean? The Surprising Implications of the Person-Altering Consequences of Policies
- Myths of the Nuclear Renaissance
Upcoming Issue
Volume 35 Number 2
The second issue of Ecology Law Currents will address “California and the Future of Environmental Law and Policy.” The issue will discuss how California is leading the global response to environmental and energy challenges and will feature contributions from panelists at the California Center for Environmental Law and Policy's April 2008 Conference.
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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