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ArticleVol. 102 · Iss. 3
Investor Climate Alliances
Climate change causes systemic financial risk, compelling long-term institutional investors to act. Its impacts extend beyond financial harms, aligning institutional investors with socially responsible…
Amelia Miazad -
ArticleVol. 102 · Iss. 2
Water Law Transitions in the Era of Climate Change
Although legal transitions—changes in legislation, regulations, or judicial decisions—are an inevitable part of legal progress, there are certain areas of the law where reform…
Luis Inaraja Vera -
NoteVol. 102 · Iss. 2
Plane-Arazzi: Balancing Remedies for Celebrities Tracked By ADS-B With the Threat of Censorship
Since their rollout in 2008 and widespread adoption in the years since, Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) transponders have made air travel both smarter and…
Savannah C. Olmstead -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 1
The Case Against Regional Transmission Monopolies
Over the next decade, the United States will need to build significant regional transmission infrastructure to achieve the country’s goal of net-zero power by…
Kristen van de Biezenbos -
ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 4
The Political Economy of WTO Exceptions
ABSTRACT In a bid to save the planet from rising temperatures, the European Union is introducing a carbon border adjustment mechanism—essentially a levy on…
Timothy Meyer -
NoteVol. 88 · Iss. 3
Sucking the Air out of Wind Energy: Nuisance Litigation and Its Effect on Wind Energy Development
Global climate change is a major threat facing our country and the world. The consequences of climate change are likely to be significant and…
Ryan Kusmin -
CommentaryVol. 88 · Iss. 1
A Challenge to Sustainable Governments?
Sustainability, an environmentally-friendly term that previously incited political unrest, economic uncertainty, and even emotional outrage, has become quite commonplace. In federal, state, and local…
Keith H. Hirokawa -
ArticleVol. 94 · Iss. 4
Future-Proofing Energy Transport Law
The U.S. energy system is critical to every aspect of the nation’s economy and daily life. That energy system, in turn, is completely dependent…
Alexandra B. Klass -
ArticleVol. 95 · Iss. 2
Innovation Snowballing and Climate Law
Findings at the frontier of economics suggest startling implications of an under-appreciated fact about technological development: innovation builds on itself, developing path dependencies in…
Zachary Liscow & Quentin Karpilow -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 3
Could Official Climate Denial Revive the Common Law as a Regulatory Backstop?
The Trump Administration is rapidly turning the clock back on climate policy and environmental regulation. Despite overwhelming, peer-reviewed scientific evidence, administration officials eager to…
Mark P. Nevitt & Robert V. Percival -
ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 6
The Rise of International Corporate Law
Comparative corporate governance has focused either on prevailing differences across legal systems or on spontaneous legal transplants of foreign institutions in response to global competition. This…
Mariana Pargendler -
NoteVol. 89 · Iss. 4
Setting the Pace for Energy Efficiency: The Rise, Fall, and (Potential) Return of Property Assessed Clean Energy
This Note discusses an innovative form of legislation known as “Property Assessed Clean Energy”, or PACE. PACE allows property owners to receive funding from…
Jeffrey Hoops