Posted in Academia, Emerging Issues on Apr 23rd, 2012
David Cassuto From the Shameless Self Promotion Desk … The most recent issue of the Journal of Animal Ethics has a piece by me offering some thoughts about U.S. v. Stevens (the crush video/animal fighting, 1st Amendment Case). It’s titled: “United States v. Stevens: Win, Loss or Draw for Animals?” You can download it here. The abstract follows below [...]
Posted in Academia, Emerging Issues on Apr 23rd, 2012
David Cassuto This Thursday, April 26th, 2012 at 4 pm in the Moot Court Room at Pace Law School in White Plains, Steve Wise will speak on : “The Nonhuman Rights Project’s Struggle for Nonhuman Personhood.” Reception to follow. If you haven’t heard Steve speak, you should. If you have heard him, you know you should again. A [...]
Posted in Emerging Issues, Litigation and Dispute Resolution on Nov 4th, 2011
by Daniel E. Estrin Supervising Attorney, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, Inc. Adjunct Professor of Law, Pace Law School The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit last month issued two well-reasoned and important opinions regarding the enforcement and application of federal environmental statutes. First, on October 3, 2011, the court considered federal court abstention [...]
Posted in Academia, Emerging Issues on Sep 5th, 2011
David Cassuto BAILE (the Brazil-American Institute for Law & Environment) has been focusing on transboundary groundwater of late. Prof. Romulo Sampaio and I attended a UNESCO/ISARM conference on the subject in Paris last December, where we presented a paper on the Guarani Aquifer. We have since turned that paper into an article which has just [...]
Posted in Emerging Issues, Policy and Practice, Reseach and Discovery on May 1st, 2011
by Richard Ottinger From April 3-5, 2011 Shakeel Kazmi and I represented Pace and IUCN at the final Preparatory Commission Meeting and the Inaugural Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), which took place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. We also had an hour-long meeting with IRENA’s newly elected Director General, Adnan Amin [...]
Posted in Academia, Emerging Issues on Apr 27th, 2011
David Cassuto From the Shameless Self-Promotion Desk: My latest article on the water law regimes of Brazil and the U.S. and their respective readiness to cope with climate change is available here. Water Law in the United States and Brazil – Climate Change & Two Approaches to Emerging Water Poverty, which appears in the William [...]
Posted in Emerging Issues, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Policy and Practice on Apr 20th, 2011
David Cassuto Between Kathleen and me, we’ve taken up a lot of blawgwidth over at the Animal Blawg on the battle to delist the gray wolf in the Northern Rockies and the ultimately successful attempt to make the delisting a part of the budget agreement. Yet, there’s so much more to be said. Here’s my [...]
Posted in Emerging Issues on Mar 31st, 2011
David Cassuto (x-post from Animal Blawg) Alas, blogging has paid a heavy price for what has been and continues to be a very busy semester. But it’s been busy in a good way. To wit, I am recently returned from both Las Vegas and Rio. I’ll discuss Rio in my next post but first, to [...]
Posted in Emerging Issues, Litigation and Dispute Resolution on Feb 14th, 2011
by Daniel E. Estrin Supervising Attorney, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, Inc. Adjunct Professor of Law, Pace Law School I have blogged over the past few months about a case the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic and our co-counsel have attempted to bring against the two largest mountaintop removal coal companies operating in Kentucky. Most recently, I posted about our legal intern Peter Harrison’s trip to Kentucky to [...]
Posted in Emerging Issues on Feb 3rd, 2011
David Cassuto (x-post from Animal Blawg) Let’s be clear: Our hero favors alternative energy, including wind power. However, nothing is all good and wind turbines kill birds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that more than 400,000 birds are killed each year by blows from the blades of wind turbines. And as the Department [...]
