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 36, Number 4
In this last issue of the year, articles in ELQ tackle three pressing topics: how to support distributed solar generation, how to encourage and build from linkages between emissions permit systems, and how to allocate "grandfathering" rights in a regulated environment.
Table of Contents
Articles
- Linking Tradable Permit Systems: A Key Element of Emerging International Climate Policy Architecture
- Allocation and Uncertainty: Strategic Responses to Environmental Grandfathering
- Letting Solar Shine: An Argument to Temper the Over-the-Fence Rule
Upcoming Issue
Volume 37, Number 1
In this 2010 debut issue, articles confront a range of important environmental topics.
Table of Contents
- A Comparative Guide to the Western States' Public Trust Doctrine: Public Values, Private Rights, and the Evolution Toward an Environmental Public Trust
- Place-based Legislation as a Method of Resolving Multiple-Use Conflicts on National Forests
- Fast-Fish, Loose-Fish: How Whalemen, Lawyers, and Judges Created the British Property Law of Whaling
- Limiting Corrupt Incentives in a Global REDD Regime
- Debunking the "Divine Conception" Myth: Environmental Law Before NEPA (A Book Review of Before Earth Day: The Origins of American Environmental Law)
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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
Photo Credit to Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel.
- Is It Really a Huge Mistake? Choosing Between Carbon Fees and Cap-and-Trade
The disastrous effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs. Photo by Ryan P. Moyer.
- Harnessing the Potential of the Clean Water Act to Address Ocean Acidification
Half Dome at Yosemite National Park. Photo by Catherine Mongeon.
- Student Review of Selected Panels at the California State Bar’s 2009 Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite
Justice Greg Hobbs.
- Colorado, Centennial State at the Headwaters
Toward a new solar business paradigm.
- A Framework for Energy Independence via Solar Hosting Farms
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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: ecologylawquarterly@boalt.org