Dear Friends and Colleagues,

 

I am pleased to share recent environmental publications from our faculty at Vermont Law School. Winter isn't over yet (especially here in Vermont), so here are some books and articles to add to your reading lists while there's still time to curl up by the fire and read.

 

Betsy Baker

"A Note on Arctic Information Platforms and International Law," a chapter in  International Law and Politics of the Arctic Ocean, Essays in Honor of Donat Pharand, S. Lalonde and T.McDorman (eds.),  Brill, January 2015, 434-445. 

"Inter-linkages in International Law: The Convention on Biological Diversity as a Model for Linking Territory, Environment and Indigenous Rights in the Marine Arctic,"  a chapter in  Diplomacy on Ice: Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic,
S. Ali and R. Pincus (eds.),Yale University Press,  41-60,  2015.

"Assessing Assessments of NAFTA's Marine Environment: The Commission for Environmental Cooperation meets the World Ocean Assessment," a chapter in NAFTA and Sustainable Development: History, Experience, and Prospects for Reform, Hoi Kong & Kinvin Wroth (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 343-366 (forthcoming spring 2015).
Laurie Beyranevand

"Agricultural Biotechnology and NAFTA: Analyzing the Impacts of U.S. and Canadian Policies on Mexico's Environment and Agriculture," a chapter in  NAFTA and Sustainable Development: History, Experience, and prospects for Reform, Hoi Kong & Kinvin Wroth (eds.),  Cambridge University Press , (forthcoming spring 2015.)

John Echeverria

Koontz: The Very Worst Takings Decision Ever? 22  Environmental Law Review 1  (Winter 2014).

Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst. 8B-1 (2014).

Hillary Hoffmann

Journal of Energy and Environmental Law ,  George Washington University Law School, (forthcoming Spring 2015). 

Obama Administration Settles With Navajo Nation for $554M, (with Andrew Settle), Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Top 10 Environmental Watch List, (December 10, 2014).

Kevin Jones

"The Future of Electric Power Transmission," a chapter in Energy Choices: How to Power the Future ( with VLS alumni  Owen McClain , Shannon Clarke , Graham Jesmer, and Jim Cunningham), Praeger, October 2014.  
 

Reed Loder

 

Toward Reconciling Environmental and Animal Ethics: Northeast Wolf Reintroduction, 10 Journal of Animal and Natural Resource Law 95,(2014).

Janet Milne

Handbook Of Research On Environmental Taxation, J. Milne and M. Andersen, (eds.), Edward Elgar, Paperback, 2014.

Carbon Pricing: Design, Experiences and Issue, L. Kreiser et al. (eds.), (forthcoming 2015).

 

Environmental Pricing: Studies in Policy Choices and Interactions,

L. Kreiser et al. (eds.), (forthcoming 2015). 

Patrick Parenteau

"Climate Change in the Marine Environment," a chapter in
Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy, 2nd edition, ABA, 2014.

"Legal Authorities for Ecosystem-Based Management in U.S. Coastal and Ocean Areas," (with several co-authors), a chapter in Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy, 2nd edition, ABA, 2014.

Rethinking Sustainability to Meet the Climate Change Challenge, (with several co-authors), 43  Environmental Law Reporter 10342-10357 , ( 2014).

  The Carbon Bubble, Fletcher Forum on World Affairs, (February 2014). 
Craig Pease

Coal Mining: A Fly in the Ash, The Environmental Law Forum, Science and the Law Column, March-April 2015.

An Old Scourge, and a Modern One, The Environmental Forum, Science and the Law Column, January-February 2015.

A Critique of Impure Reason, The Environmental Forum, Science and the Law column, November-December 2014

Investigating the Temperature Trend, The Environmental Forum, Science and the Law column, September-October 2014.

Laurie Ristino

All Dried Up: Tensions Rise over Water Shortage in California,  co-authored with Joseph Simpson, EcoPerspectives Blog, 
Vermont Journal of Environmental Law , January, 2015.

"Carbon Trading in the United States," a chapter in Research Handbook on Climate Mitigation Law,  (with  Katie Michel),  Van Calster, G., Vandenberghe, W., and Reins, L. (eds.) , Edward Elgar, 2014.

Melissa Scanlan

"Sustainable Sewage," a chapter in IUCNAEL Colloquium 2014, Edward Elgar Publishing, (forthcoming 2015).

Blueprint for the Great Lakes Trail, 4 Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law 61, (Fall 2015).

Adaptive Trading: Experimenting with Unlikely Partners, 62 Kansas Law Review 971, (2014). 

Food and Virtual Water in the Great Lakes States, (with Jenny Kehl), 63 DePaul Law Review 771, (Spring 2014).

Kinvin Wroth

NAFTA and Sustainable Development: History, Experience, and prospects for Reform,  Hoi Kong & Kinvin Wroth (eds.),  Cambridge University Press , (forthcoming spring 2015).

Happy reading!

 

Melissa K. Scanlan

Associate Dean for Environmental Programs

Director, Environmental Law Center

Associate Professor

Vermont Law School

 

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