ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
APRIL 22, 2021
It is led by activists advocating for ecosystems such as rivers, lakes, and mountains to bear legal rights in the same, or at least a similar, manner as human beings. How would such a legal system work, and could giving rights to nature help in the legal battle against climate change? A few case studies offer some insight.
JURIST
AUGUST 22, 2021
If fully developed, the project could produce a peak daily production of 160,000 barrels of crude oil with the first oil estimated in 2024-2025. In February, the US Ninth Circuit of Appeals granted their request for an energy order stopping blasting, gravel mining and road construction on the project.
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JURIST
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Support is also being organized by local members of Pakistan’s legal community galvanizing action through donation. Here, Eisha Chaudhry, a law student in the final year of her external LL.B.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MARCH 29, 2023
The advisory opinion represents an opportunity to clarify the legal obligations of States with respect to climate change. The rich jurisprudence developed worldwide and the links between human rights and climate change identified by domestic courts will likely be leveraged in the ICJ’s analysis of the legal questions posed.
LawSites
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the eighth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024. It also improves access to justice for society as lawyers can handle more cases, as well as remove some bias from the legal system through fact-first drafting. Voting is now open! 14-17, 2024, in Chicago.
Broadcast Law Blog
JANUARY 29, 2019
As we wrote here , February 4 also brings the date for filing a petition to participate in the Copyright Royalty Board proceeding looking to set rates for the public performance of sound recordings by noninteractive webcasters for 2021-2025.
The Crime Report
APRIL 25, 2023
The new proposal would subject all individuals with a prior conviction of an offense carrying up to just one year in prison to this regime, thereby extending the net to many people who could legally carry a gun were it not for a minor drug possession conviction decades ago.
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