Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2013
I watched Bill McKibben’s movie about his “Do the Math” Tour last night, and got to watch some of my good friends and personal environmental heroes getting arrested for civil disobedience protests against the Project XL pipeline. McKibben’s “Do The Math” campaign draws on the civil rights protests against 1960s segregation as well as the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2013
In 1992, families with children predominated, creating a market for single-family, single-lot homes in suburban greenfields—the American Dream; 2013 sees a different market emerging of younger and smaller households, most of whom seek rental apartments or smaller for-sale homes in urban places, while cities learn to create sustainable neighborhoods to accommodate a new settlement pattern [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 4th, 2013
While New York and New Jersey recover physically from Tropical Storm Sandy, law professors and practitioners are examining the adequacy of the legal system to respond to worsening storms associated with climate change. Legal Issues in Managed Coastal Retreat was the name of a forum on the topic at Columbia Law School on March 28th. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2013
No, this is not an early April-fools blog caption, though I realize it sounds like a bit of academic self parody. This week’s arguments in the constitutional challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act (banning federal recognition of state-recognized same-sex marriages) and California’s Proposition 8 (the ballot initiative that amended the California Constitution in order [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 8th, 2013
By Law Professor Shi Hua, Pace Law Visiting Scholar China is a big country (vast size, large population, rapidly developing economy and diversified climates and geographic conditions). It has 5,000 years of history, so it has much traditional culture. People were strongly influenced by the thoughts of Confucius, and always liked to live in a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 8th, 2013
Today’s decision in the Los Angeles County case is a quick read. So quick, I thought I was just reading the syllabus. Still looking for an explanation of exactly how the Ninth Circuit decision “cannot be squared” with the rule of the Miccosukkee case that a downstream flow cannot be a “discharge of a pollutant” [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 5th, 2012
From the Pace Law Newswire: The National Resources Defense Council invited Professor Franz Litz to participate in a panel it convened this week to discuss the Clean Air Act. Representatives from the NRDC stated that President Obama could cut power plant emissions by a third by 2025 if he were to invoke the Clean Air [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2012
Franz Litz is a Professor of Law and the Executive Director of the Pace Energy and Climate Center. He is currently at the COP18 climate talks in Doha. Here is his on-the-ground perspective of the talks: Greetings from Doha! I wish this article from the Economist (Theatre of the absurd: After three failures, this year’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 27th, 2012
Report on the IUCN World Conservation Congress, Jeju South Korea 9/4-15/2012, and Pace & CEL Contributions IUCN Description of the World Conservation Congress Green gets gold at Nature’s Olympics 15 September 2012 | IUCN statement Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 15 September 2012 (IUCN) – As economic difficulties continue to dominate international debate, IUCN’s World [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 14th, 2012
M-165-2012-EN (text of motion) The World Conservation Congress has approved our motion on the strengthening of the environmental judiciary worldwide. This is a project Professor Nicholas Robinson has pursued for the past few years with other partners, including the Environmental Law Institute, Justice Antonio Benjamin, and other environmental judges around the world. We hope this Resolution [...]
