Environmental Law Center Blog

Constitutional Environmental Rights Workshop Thursday, May 31, 2012 Environmental Law Center Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, DE On Thursday, May 31, 2012, the Widener Environmental Law Center (WELC) in Wilmington, Delaware, will host a one-day scholar workshop on recent developments in the growing field of global and domestic constitutional environmental rights. Workshop organizers Professors […]

The ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources and the Environmental Law Institute have recently co-published Jim May’s new book, Principles of Constitutional Environmental Law. This first of its kind book explains how the nexus between environmental and constitutional law has evolved from nearly nothing to nearly everything, and what this means for professors, policymakers, […]

Widener Law will mark the 40th anniversary of one of Delaware’s most controversial – and some would say important – environmental laws with a daylong event that is open to the public. The Delaware Coastal Zone Act represented the first comprehensive coastal land-use law in the world aimed at curbing industrial development within a coastal […]

[By Professor Erin Daly, H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law] Download the opinion in PDF (6 separate pages): proteccion-derechosnatura-loja-11 6 proteccion-derechosnatura-loja-11 5 proteccion-derechosnatura-loja-11 4 proteccion-derechosnatura-loja-11 3 proteccion-derechosnatura-loja-11 2 proteccion-derechosnatura-loja-11 1 A provincial court in Ecuador became the first court ever to interpret – and vindicate – the newly constitutionalized right of Nature. The Ecuadorian […]

Today in American Electric Power v. Connecticut, the United States Supreme Court held that the Clean Air Act, when coupled with EPA’s discretionary authority that the Court recognized in Massachusetts v. EPA, as well as the actions EPA has taken in the last two years to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, displaces federal common law causes […]

“The motto for the Environmental Law Center is Law for Sustainability,” says Distinguished Professor John C. Dernbach, adding, “Governors and Senators make a lot of decisions that create and implement law.” With that in mind, Professor Dernbach has worked closely with some of his students to provide information on the Environmental Law Center’s blog about […]

Coming soon in September 2010,  we will be adding a new  section to the Environmental Law Center Blog. The new section  is based on a simple but powerful premise: Sustainable development would make Pennsylvania more livable, healthy, secure, and prosperous. Policies that promote sustainability would help grow our economy, create jobs, improve quality of life […]

The Widener University School of Law (Wilmington Campus) has a new environmental law certificate, available immediately. Here are the details: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CERTIFICATE Widener University School of Law Wilmington Delaware (Effective 2010) 1. Certificate Courses: Students may pursue one of two tracks to satisfy requirements for Certificate: Classroom Track: Student must take: A. 6 credit […]

What role should economics play in environmental law? Tomorrow I give a talk at the Society for Environmental Law and Economics Annual Meeting at Emory Law School about the role of cost considerations before the U.S. Supreme Court. At its core, this meeting explores competing dynamics among the dominant paradigms of at the intersection of […]

Last week I had the pleasure of providing the opening remarks and join a panel at the 21st Annual National Association of Environmental Law Societies Meeting in New Orleans. We also visited the 9th Ward, and other areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and joined the ABA in planting salt-resistant trees to help recover affected riparian […]