Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation : Vol. 32 No. 1 (2016)https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/223322024-03-29T02:11:26Z2024-03-29T02:11:26ZPutting Some Over the Hill: The Disparate Impact of Drought in CaliforniaWright, Timothyhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/223372018-08-24T20:51:09Z2017-05-22T00:00:00ZPutting Some Over the Hill: The Disparate Impact of Drought in California
Wright, Timothy
In the American West, the central fact of existence is the lack of water. California is embroiled in drought and the year 2014 was likely the state’s single worst drought year in approximately 1200 years. As climate change continues to intensify, the rest of the nation and the world are watching the way California, the seventh largest economy in the world, responds to this water emergency. So far, the state has not responded well enough to offset the drought’s disparate impact on minorities, the economically disadvantaged, and other marginalized and vulnerable populations.
28 pages
2017-05-22T00:00:00ZCompulsory Vaccinations: Balancing the Equitable Reality of Police Power with Provider Assistance Through an Improved Informed Consent ProcessRitchey, William Jameshttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/223362017-05-26T07:29:57Z2017-05-22T00:00:00ZCompulsory Vaccinations: Balancing the Equitable Reality of Police Power with Provider Assistance Through an Improved Informed Consent Process
Ritchey, William James
This Comment addresses the constitutionality and viability of compulsory vaccination of adults and children in the United States.
24 pages
2017-05-22T00:00:00ZGot Guts? The Iconic Streams of the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Law’s Ephemeral EdgeReiblich, JesseAnkersen, Thomashttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/223352017-05-26T07:29:56Z2017-05-22T00:00:00ZGot Guts? The Iconic Streams of the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Law’s Ephemeral Edge
Reiblich, Jesse; Ankersen, Thomas
This Article first examines the legal status of guts — the ephemeral streams of the U.S. Virgin Islands that typically flow only after rainfall — in the Virgin Islands within the Territory’s existing laws and legal precedents. Next, it looks to other jurisdictions for guidance regarding best practices for regulating intermittent and ephemeral waterways, and methods of ensuring government access to these waterways for better management and protection. Finally, it proposes certain proprietary, regulatory, and management policy measures that could be implemented within this legal framework to better manage and protect guts for the entire Territory.
48 pages
2017-05-22T00:00:00ZGreen Is the New Black: African American Literature Informing Environmental Justice LawPrince, Shannon Joycehttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/223342017-05-26T07:29:55Z2017-05-22T00:00:00ZGreen Is the New Black: African American Literature Informing Environmental Justice Law
Prince, Shannon Joyce
How do legal scholars currently think about environmental justice law? Could African American literature, and its sister, Native American orature, shape those thought patterns?
38 pages
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