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A photographic diptych featuring contrasting textures and patterns in nature at The New York Botanical Garden. [...]

Benson on Prior Appropriation Doctrine in Western Water Law

Reed D. Benson (New Mexico) has posted Alive but Irrelevant: The Prior Appropriation Doctrine in Today’s Western Water Law, forthcoming in the Colorado Law Review. The abstract: The Prior Appropriation Doctrine has long been the foundation of laws go… [...]

Gardner on U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics

Royal C. Gardner (Stetson) has posted Lawyers, Swamps, and Money: U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics. It is the introduction to his new book of the same name from Island Press (2011). The abstract: This paper is the table of… [...]

The Spillover Effects of Flood Control

While waiting for the first stack of ungraded final exams to hit my desk this week, I’ve been following developments in a dispute between Illinois and Missouri over flooding along the Mississippi River. Rising floodwaters in the region presented fede… [...]

U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Western Water Law Case

As previously reported on this blog, the U.S. Supreme Court took on a relatively rare original-jurisdiction matter with the case of Montana v. Wyoming. Today, the Court ruled in a 7-1 opinion (Kagan recused; Scalia in dissent) to dismiss Montana’s… [...]

Adler on Climate, Water, Agriculture, and Drought

Robert W. Adler (Utah) has posted Balancing Compassion and Risk in Climate Adaptation: U.S. Water, Drought and Agricultural Law, forthcoming in the Florida Law Review. The abstract: This article compares risk spreading and risk reduction approaches to … [...]

Doremus (and many more) on Adaptive Management

Holly Doremus (Cal-Berkeley) collaborated with nine other scholars and two staff members from the Center for Progressive Reform to produce Making Use of Adaptive Management. Here’s the abstract: Over the last two decades, natural resource scientists, m… [...]

Blumm & Guthrie on Internationalizing the Public Trust Doctrine

Michael C. Blumm (Lewis & Clark) and R.D. Guthrie (Lewis & Clark) have posted Internationalizing the Public Trust Doctrine: Natural Law and Constitutional and Statutory Approaches to Fulifilling the Saxion Vision, forthcoming in University of California Davis Law Review, Vol…. [...]

Lower Esopus: Prepare for more dirty water tomorrow

TweetThis just in from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection: The agency is planning to push water into the lower Esopus via the Ashokan waste channel starting tomorrow, in response to predicted snowstorms in the Catskills region. Ac… [...]

Yoga and Water

Those of you who follow this blog closely might have noticed that, in addition to land use law, I have an interest in contemplative practices such as yoga and meditation. Very occasionally, those two interests overlap. This month, Yoga Journal… [...]