The global increase in greenhouse gases is also changing the climate conditions more severely in Germany. This … particularly affects local cultivated landscapes, which cover large parts of Germany and are already experiencing a wide range of …

The public trust doctrine is an ancient doctrine of public property law that governs sovereign stewardship of natural … of the public, including future generations. The doctrine, which first surfaced in Roman law and later codified in the … law in the nineteenth century. The doctrine's remarkable endurance over the centuries now brings its antimonopolistic …

Litigation which Abram Chayes labeled “public law litigation” grew especially quickly in the decade immediately before … questions these two assertions. First, courts have been receptive to amorphous party structure in public law cases, allowing …

Legal scholarship on the role of cost-benefit analysis in environmental law is often stimulating, but does not seem to … parallels the impasse that has stymied environmental law for over a decade. Professors Lisa Heinzerling and Frank Ackerman have … by narrowly focusing on an environmental theory of moral absolutism, and by attempting to exclude economic considerations …

great extent, this debate has taken place on a general and abstract level. Instead of examining the theory of natural …