Rivers Are People, My Friend
In his dissent to Sierra Club v. Morton, Justice Douglas stated, ???The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it. Those people who have a meaningful relation to that…
Environmental Justice and the SEC: Transparency Empowers Citizens
The term environmental justice often calls to mind, at least to me, urban and more localized settings, rather than a global and international scale. However, it is a multifaceted front that heeds many forms of action,…
Professor Bratspies to Speak on Environmental Democracy
CUER Executive Director and CUNY Law School Professor Rebecca Bratspies will be??a speaker at the 5th Polar Law Conference which??is being held at the??Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, in??Rovaniemi, Finland on 6-8 September 2012.??…
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Environmental Justice
As Hurricane Isaac bids farewell to Louisiana, I cannot begin to imagine the sadness of those who lost their homes.?? In the backdrop of an impending hurricane in the south, Director Benh Zeitlin of the movie…
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