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 36, Number 1
This issue confronts timely issues of environmental law, including climate change, ocean policy, and agency interaction with Native Americans.
Table of Contents
- The Silver Anniversary of the United States’ Exclusive Economic Zone: Twenty-Five Years of Ocean Use and Abuse, and the Possibility of a Blue Water Public Trust Doctrine
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Vehicle Miles Traveled: Integrating the California Environmental Quality Act with the California Global Warming Solutions Act
- Tribal-Agency Confidentiality: A Catch-22 for Sacred Site Management?
- Climate Change and the Endangered Species Act: The Difficulty of Proving Causation
Upcoming Issue
Annual Review: a comprehensive review of the year's most important decisions and issues in environmental law and policy.
Table of Contents
- Taking a Hard Look at Agency Science: Can the Courts Ever Succeed?
- Who Can Enforce the Endangered Species Act's Command for Federal Agencies to Carry out Conservation Programs?
- Tribal-Agency Confidentiality: A Catch-22 for Sacred Site Management?
- The Might of the Fishing Compact; New Jersey v. Delaware and the Search for a More Appropriate Resolution to Interstate Disputes
- Risky Business: Barriers to Rationality in Congress
- Making Snow in the Desert: Defining a Substantial Burden under RFRA
- Environmental Conservation Organization v. City of Dallas Creates Unnecessary Burden-Shifting for Citizen Suits under the Clean Water Act
- The Difficulty of Fencing In Interstate Emissions: EPA’s Clean Air Interstate Rule Fails to Make Good Neighbors
- Realizing Judicial Substantive Due Process in Land Use Claims: The Role of Land Use Statutory Schemes
- Lack of Deference: The 9th Circuit's Misstep in NRDC v. EPA
- Consideration of Alternatives in Environmental Impact Reports: The Importance of CEQA’s Procedural Requirements
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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 Articles
Two students helping conduct food mapping.
- Food Justice and Food Retail in Los Angeles
Photo of Tierra del Fuego glacial melt by Todd Hutchins.
- Why 350? Climate Policy Must Aim to Stabilize Greenhouse Gases at the Level Necessary to Minimize the Risk of Catastrophic Outcomes
Treadle pumps in Bangladesh. Photo by International Development Enterprises.
- Spreading the Water Wealth: Making Water Infrastructure Work for the Poor
Yosemite. Photo by Max Baumhefner
- An Argument For Placing Logging Roads Under The NPDES Program
Mickey's Beach, Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Photo by Max Baumhefner
- Restoring Public Trust in the Public Lands: An Agenda for the New Administration
- A Challenge for the Obama Team: Put Science and Federal Scientists to Better Use
- Stopping the Conversation: Amended ESA Section 7 Regulations Put Species At Risk
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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: ecologylawquarterly@boalt.org