Produced by students at Berkeley Law, Ecology Law Quarterly is one of the nation’s most respected and widely read environmental law journals.
Latest Issue
Volume 37, Number 2
Students at Berkeley Law bring you another edition of the Annual Review of Natural Resources and Environmental Law.
Table of Contents
Foreward
- An Introduction to the Issue
Articles
- Filling the Regulatory Gap: A Proposal for Restructuring the Clean Water Act’s Two-Permit System
- Reasonable Bases for Apportioning Harm under CERCLA
- Energy v. Water
- Surviving Summers
- NEPA in the Post-9/11 World
- The Middle Ground of Pesticide Regulation: Why EPA Should Use a Watershed-Based Permitting Scheme in Its New Aquatic Pesticides Rule
- At a Dead End: The Need for Congressional Direction in the Roadless Area Management Debate
- Size, Biology, and Culture: Persistence as the Indicator of the Significance of Portions of Species’ Historical Range under the Endangered Species Act
- One Fish, Two Fish: Suggestions for the Treatment of Hatchery Fish under the Endangered Species Act
- Restoring Webster’s Definition of “Best” under the Clean Air Act
- Tribal Governments Should Be Entitled to Special Solicitude: The Overarching Sentiment of the Parens Patriae Doctrine
- “Taking” a Different Tack on Just Compensation Claims Arising Out of the Endangered Species Act
In Brief
- Please select the author's last name to read his or her brief article: Goetz, Sager, Sangi, Stamas, Waldron, Black, Miller, Green Nylen, Tran-Caffee, Shearer, Jaffe, Platt, Kozik, Ropert, de Castro
Upcoming Issue
Volume 37, Number 3
This heterogeneous issue contains a rebuttal clarifying the role of background principles in takings law, an exploration of how the scientific construction of environmental problems frames environmental law, and an analysis of the challenges climate change poses for the governance of Arctic fisheries.
Table of Contents
- Background Principles, Takings, and Libertarian Property: a Response to Professor Huffman
- Ways of Seeing in Environmental Law: How Deforestation Became an Object of Climate Governance
- Climate Change and the Arctic: Adapting to Changes in Fisheries Stocks and Governance Regimes
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ELQ Submissions
The ELQ Editorial Board welcomes articles for review and publication consideration. ELQ publishes articles and book reviews written by law professors, practitioners, and professionals outside the legal community. ELQ also strongly supports student scholarship and often publishes exceptional pieces written by JD and advanced degree law students. We publish articles covering a diversity of environmental topics, each with a sound argument and a novel approach.
Ecology Law Currents, ELQ’s online-only publication, features short-form commentary and analysis on timely environmental law and policy issues.
Latest Articles
Whale struck and killed by ship in Santa Barbara Channel, October 2007. Photo credit to Monica Bond.
Whale of an Opportunity: Coast Guard Study of Los Angeles/Long Beach Port Access Routes Holds Great Potential for Reducing Ship Strikes within Santa Barbara Channel
Traffic on Interstate 405 in Los Angeles, California. Photo credit to Atwater Village Newbie.
Implementing SB 375: Promises and Pitfalls
International shipping containers at the Port of Oakland (Oakland, California).
Photo courtesy of Nell Green Nylen.
Lessons Already Learned: An Analysis of Waxman-Markey under Current WTO Case Law
A public park across the street from a Superfund site in a West Oakland neighborhood. Photo credit to Nell Green Nylen.
Student Review of Selected Panels at the Berkeley Law 2010 Environmental Justice Symposium
Serpentine waterways and farmland in the Delta. Photo credit to California Department of Water Resources.
A New Dawn for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta? Assessing the 2009 California Delta/Water Legislation
Egg Production. Photo by
Farm Sanctuary.
Levine v. Vilsack: When "Likely" Actually Means "Definitely"
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Currents Submissions
Ecology Law Currents welcomes submissions from academics, practitioners, policy makers, and students. Submissions should be on current environmental issues or cases. All submissions must be original, previously unpublished works and can be in the form of articles, essays, commentaries, or responses to articles published in ELQ.
In order to publish in a timely and efficient manner, we cannot consider pieces longer than 3,000 words.
Please place all citations in footnotes. All quotations, attributions and references to hard data must be cited, but we ask authors to refrain from using string cites. Please include parallel citations to any internet sources and useful websites. Currents welcomes submissions accompanied by multimedia, and interactive components.
Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, in its completed form, and submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format. To submit an article, or for any inquiries regarding Ecology Law Currents, please email: ecologylawcurrents@boalt.org