Pace Environmental Law Review

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...

by John G. Nevius, Esq., P.E. On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, two separate oral arguments were held that will help determine the future of climate-change litigation - and whether and how insurance coverage is available to defend against certain climate-change claims. The...

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...

by Karl Coplan April is the month when Uncle Sam requires us all to provide an accounting of our economic footprint for the prior calendar year. Our government depends on this system of tax reporting and payment. Although the US tax system is sometimes referred to as...

by Alokananda Dutta, CELS Graduate Research Fellow On April 1st, Pace Law School, in collaboration with the NY State Judicial Institute, the Environmental Law Institute, and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, hosted a working Symposium on environmental...

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...

by Karl Coplan In an interview in Time magazine last week, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson bemoaned Congressional efforts to undo EPA's Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding under Clean Air Act Section 208: Congress would essentially be passing a law that says, We, as a...

by Daniel E. Estrin Supervising Attorney, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic Adjunct Professor of Law, Pace Law School In this age of partisan warfare, of politicians voting strictly along party lines, and of misguided efforts to eviscerate the Environmental...

David Cassuto Could this be you? NOTICE OF ASSISTANT DEAN POSITION AT PACE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK Pace University School of Law is seeking to fill one position, titled, Assistant Dean of Environmental Programs and Professor of Law for...

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...