Category: Past Issues

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 651 (2018). Michael Allan Wolf. The new normal of environmental law will likely feature reduced enforcement of existing federal environmental statutes, elimination of federal regulations deemed anti-business, slashed funding for climate change response programs, and state preemption…

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 455 (2018). Andrea J. Boyack. Sustainable real estate development is an essential component of intergenerational justice, in part because the real estate sector creates more than 20% of the world’s carbon emissions. Governments, recognizing that environmentally sustainable real estate…

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 617 (2018). Melissa Mortazavi. Few industries in the United States carry the clout and capital of the oil and gas and agricultural sectors. Economic behemoths, their booms and busts shape the destinies of states, define national policy,…

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 497 (2018). Paolo Davide Farah & Tivadar Ötvös. At first sight the potential discrepancy between competitive behavior of market participants, trade rules and the basic notion of sustainable development may seem to be of a negligible importance. However,…

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 431 (2018). Sumudu Atapattu. From Shell Oil in Ogoniland, Nigeria to Chevron in Ecuador, and from Bhopal, India to Freeport-McMoRan in Indonesia, the world is replete with examples of corporate excesses and impunity. Time and time again…

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 583 (2018). Gregg P. Macey. Legal scholars respond to novel risks and technologies such as hydraulic fracturing with a wide range of governance claims. Normative claims are rendered as to whether central (federal), devolved (state and local),…

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 515 (2018). Steven Ferrey. The Supreme Court recently applied the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution to sustainable energy technology. Three recent decisions of the Supreme Court, as well as subsequent decisions of the federal circuit courts and a…

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 1 (2018). “This law school, its faculty, and its students have, from the beginning, had a sense of mission. It is simply not good enough to do the old tasks well.” – Willard H. Pedrick, Founding…

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 317 (2018). Charles Wilkinson. On December 28, 2016, President Barack Obama proclaimed the Bears Ears National Monument. It is glory country. This classic Southwestern landscape of canyons, mesas, mountains, and redrock formations is every bit the equal…

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 247 (2018). Catherine T. Struve. The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure turn fifty in 2018. During the rules’ half-century of existence, the number of federal appeals by self-represented, incarcerated litigants has grown dramatically. This article surveys…