Pace Environmental Law Review

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Nick Robinson receiving IUCN Lifetime Member certificate from His Royal Highness Prince Carl Philip of Sweden. On Wednesday, Professor Nicholas Robinson received one of the IUCN's highest honors, Honorary Lifetime Membership status.  The full Pace delegation was on...

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature is the largest conservation group in the world.  It holds a Congress of its members (governments and NGOs) every four years, and Pace Law's Center for Environmental Legal Studies, as a voting member, sends a...

David Cassuto The title of this post is also the title of my forthcoming essay in Law, Culture & the Humanities (a special issue on Law & Food).  Get it here. Here’s the abstract: Law and food are distinct concepts, though the discipline (Law and Food) implies...

It's hard to know exactly what to say about Rio, and perhaps much too early to assess its impact.  While no one seems to be declaring the conference a resounding success, some commentators argue that it was a useful undertaking with good results, especially in the...