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Ecology Law Quarterly (section title).

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

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Volume 38, Number 2

Students at Berkeley Law bring you another edition of the Annual Review of Natural Resources and Environmental Law.

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Foreword
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  • To Achieve Biodiversity Goals, the New Forest Service Planning Rule Needs Effective Mandates for Best Available Science and Adaptive ManagementNell Green NylenRead Article (PDF)
  • Baseline in the Sand: Communities for a Better Environment v. South Coast Air Quality ManagementMegan McQueeneyRead Article (PDF)
  • Reframing the Judicial Approach to Injunctive Relief for Environmental Plaintiffs in Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed FarmsSarah AxtellRead Article (PDF)
  • Forcing Adaptation through the Rivers and Harbors ActLeah RindnerRead Article (PDF)
  • Arizona Cattle Growers’ Pyrrhic Victory for Critical HabitatStephanie BrauerRead Article (PDF)
  • A Proposal to Balance Polluter and Community Intervention in CERCLA LitigationMaya WaldronRead Article (PDF)
  • Are Migratory Birds Extending Environmental Criminal Liability?Alex ArensbergRead Article (PDF)
  • The Tailoring Rule: Exemplifying the Vital Role of Regulatory Agencies in Environmental ProtectionMeredith WilenskyRead Article (PDF)
  • The Gap-Filling Role of Nuisance in Interstate Air PollutionEmily SangiRead Article (PDF)
  • Precautionary Pulp: Pulp Mills and the Evolving Dispute between International Tribunals over the Reach of the Precautionary PrincipleDaniel KazhdanRead Article (PDF)
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Upcoming Issue

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Volume 38, Number 3

ELQ presents the third issue of Volume 38 (2011), which focuses on takings. Most
authors in this issue participated in panel discussions at the 13th Annual Conference on
Litigating Regulatory Takings Challenges to Land Use and Environmental Regulations,
which took place at U.C. Berkeley School of Law on November 5, 2010.

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Articles
  • Stop the Stop the Beach Plurality!J. Peter Byrne
  • Public Takings of Private Contracts
    John D. Echeverria
  • The Elements of Liability in a Trails Act Taking: A Guide to the Analysis
    Cecilia Fex
  • Kelo’s Trail: A Survey of State and Federal Legislative and Judicial Activity Five Years Later Marc Mihaly & Turner Smith
  • Deciphering and Extrapolating: Searching for Sense in Penn Central R.S. Radford & Luke A Wake
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  • Why Judicial Takings are UnripeIan Fein

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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.

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Ecology Law Currents (section title).

Ecology Law Currents, ELQ’s online-only publication, features short-form commentary and analysis on timely environmental law and policy issues.

Latest Articles

With droughts and water supply challenges plaguing California, seawater desalination is often hailed as the solution. But seawater desalination comes with a price, including possible exacerbation of climate change. This article explores the problems with seawater desalination and suggests alternative ways to increase California's water supply.With droughts and water supply challenges plaguing California, seawater desalination is often hailed as the solution. But seawater desalination comes with a price, including possible exacerbation of climate change. This article explores the problems with seawater desalination and suggests alternative ways to increase California's water supply. Photo credit to glichfield.

Seawater Desalination: Climate Change Adaptation or Contributor?

Angela Haren Kelley

 

The Los Angeles River runs through Los Angeles before draining into the Pacific Ocean, the ultimate destination of California stormwater runoff.The Los Angeles River runs through Los Angeles before draining into the Pacific Ocean, the ultimate destination of California stormwater runoff. After recent expansion of the Clean Water Act by the Ninth Circuit, no stormwater pollution goes unregulated, at least in theory. Photo credit to kla 4067.

Clean Water Act Liability for Stormwater Discharge Regardless of Who Muddied the Waters

Yana Welinder

The Lower Deschutes River running through dry Central Oregon. Rapid growth in the region has put a strain on its limited water resources. Photo credit to obsidian flow.

Acceptability of the Deschutes Groundwater Mitigation Program

Eva Leiberherr

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Currents Submissions

Ecology Law Currents welcomes submissions from academics, practitioners, policy makers, and students. Submissions should be on current environmental issues or cases. All submissions must be original, previously unpublished works and can be in the form of articles, essays, commentaries, or responses to articles published in ELQ.

In order to publish in a timely and efficient manner, we cannot consider pieces longer than 3,000 words.

Please place all citations in footnotes. All quotations, attributions and references to hard data must be cited, but we ask authors to refrain from using string cites. Please include parallel citations to any internet sources and useful websites. Currents welcomes submissions accompanied by multimedia, and interactive components.

Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, in its completed form, and submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format. To submit an article, or for any inquiries regarding Ecology Law Currents, please email: ecologylawcurrents@boalt.org

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