Sustainable Food and the Constitution

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 549 (2018). Ernesto Hernández-López. Sustainable food policies strive for environmental, healthy, economically just, and humane food production. Their success has ignited legal debates about the Constitution. This is not new. Iconic constitutional law cases examine sustainable food,…
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Right Environmentalism: Repurposing Conservative Constitutionalism

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…
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Sustainable Affordable Housing

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…
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Food, Fracking, and Folly

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,…
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The Incomplete Ecology of Hydraulic Fracturing Governance

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),…
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