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The Fordham Law School Environmental Law Review has issued a call for papers for their upcoming Volume 23.2:

 

Deadline for paper abstract submissions:  December 15, 2011

Contact: Lee Van Put, Senior Notes & Articles Editor, Fordham Environmental Law Review Email: elr@law.fordham.edu

Website: http://law.fordham.edu/fordham-environmental-law-review/elr.htm

The Fordham Environmental Law Review is a student-edited journal focusing on a broad range of domestic and international environmental issues ranging from the regulation of air, water, and soil pollution to social policy issues such as corporate responsibility and environmental racism.  The theme of ELRÕs next issue is Water and associated issues in environmental law.  The deadline for article proposals is December 15, 2011. Details are below.

 

CALL FOR ARTICLE PROPOSALS

The Fordham Environmental Law Review will devote its Spring 2012 issue (Vol. 23.2) to articles on Water, in recognition of the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act.

The editors of the ELR are looking for articles discussing a range of environmental, natural resource, energy law, and policy topics associated with issues of water and riparian rights.  Articles may address state, national, or international issues. Suggested topics include:

  • Clean Water Act
  • Hydrofracking
  • Waste water treatment and disposal
  • Citizen suits
  • Invasive Species
  • Conflicts between federal and state rights
  • Congressional activism on environmental/ energy/resource issues
  • Environmental enforcement at the federal, state and local level
  • EPA and Surface Mining Act
  • Agency issues
  • Congress v. Agencies
  • Role of science
  • Cross-jurisdictional consistency/standards

 

WE ARE CURRENTLY SOLICITING AUTHORS TO CONTRIBUTE
ARTICLES TO THIS ISSUE.

Please circulate this notice to interested parties, asking anyone interested in writing an article for this issue to submit the piece by December 15, 2011.  Authors should email Lee Van Put at elr@law.fordham.edu and include full contact information and indicate their professional employment, position, or affiliation.  The editors seek articles covering a diverse range of topics written by a diverse range of authors.

ARTICLE PROPOSALS ARE DUE BY December 15, 2011.
Authors will work with an editor from the ELR Board throughout the publication process.  Articles should be between 8,000 and 25,000 words and should be written in standard legal journal style (footnotes conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation).  ELR article guidelines can be found on the ELR website at:

 

 

The Review hosts an annual Symposium each year that draws leading scholars, lawmakers and regulatory officials in the environmental law field, as well as environmental advocates and concerned citizens.  All staff members have an opportunity to participate in the ReviewÕs annual Symposium.  The Review's 2011 Symposium was held on Friday, March 4th.



 

ANALYZING REGIONAL FOODSHEDS AND LOCAL FOOD: THE ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LAND USE LAW AND POLICY



 

Abstract: As environmental pressures mount across the globe, it is imperative that we begin to evaluate our food system and its impact on the environment. One solution is a transition to a greater reliance on local foods sourced from within regional foodsheds. According to one definition, a "foodshed" is:

 

"everything between where a food is produced and where a food is consumed the land it grows on, the routes it travels, the markets it goes through, the tables it ends up gracing."

 

The aim of this symposium is to begin a dialogue about the positive and negative environmental and land use impacts of an increased dependence on regional foodsheds, and to analyze the legal implications, impediments, tools, and controls necessary for the promotion of local food.