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 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.
Table of Contents
Articles
Stop the Stop the Beach Plurality!
Public Takings of Private Contracts
The Elements of Liability in a Trails Act Taking: A Guide to the Analysis
Kelo’s Trail: A Survey of State and Federal Legislative and Judicial Activity Five Years Later
Deciphering and Extrapolating: Searching for Sense in Penn Central
Note
Why Judicial Takings are Unripe
Upcoming Issue

Volume 38, Number 4
ELQ presents the final issue of Volume 38.
Table of Contents
Articles
The Case for NPDES Regulation of Dam Discharge
Remaking the World to Save It: Applying U.S. Environmental Laws to Climate Engineering Projects
Requirements for a Renewables Revolution
Access to Justice for Victims of the International Carbon Offset Industry
Note
The Political Question Doctrine: An Update in Response to Clmate Change Case Law
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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
On January 1, 2012, the European Union extended its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to include emissions from all aviation that land in or depart from aerodromes within the European Union. This Article explores the legal challenge to the extension of the ETS and evaluates the likely next steps in the dispute.
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?
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
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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





