Pace Environmental Law Review

David Cassuto (x-posted at Animal Blawg) Agricultural animals are not covered by the federal Animal Welfare Act.  Many states also exclude them from their anti-cruelty laws.  As a result, they have virtually no legal protections at all and spend their short lives in...

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...

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)...

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...