Planet earth is host to a dazzling variety of living organisms. This diversity of life, or – biodiversity, is vital to …. Despite the prodigious amount of biodiversity on earth, human activities have been depleting it at an accelerating rate that … five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers …

now known as globalization; and (2) the advent of the American choice-of-law revolution, which succeeded in demolishing … joined the revolution have reached fairly uniform results in resolving cross-border tort conflicts: they have applied the law … conflicts codifications around the world (a total of 20) have adopted the same solution: they apply whichever law favors the …

international law applies to those displaced or at risk of displacement from the effects of climate change. Having identified the … limitations of existing international law in responding to the needs of those displaced by climate change, this paper then focuses … island States (particularly in the Pacific), on which the impacts of climate change are well documented and keenly felt …

. Next it examines recent American legislation and case law banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Finally it …This draft paper first examines the history of hippophagy (human consumption of horse meat). It then looks at the …

limited to, climate change. This Article suggests the elements of a legal structure for achieving sustainability. Because …Sustainable development would require the United States to maintain and improve human prosperity while at the same time … environment into decision making across and among various levels of government, public education and engagement, a broad range of …

' use of preemptive federal laws to impact the environment in the face of well established environmental regulations … Congress' eleventh-hour passage of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006. While purporting not to direct a result to the …

caused by the state which invokes its right to regulate. Apart from the case law in the area of investment disputes, it is … proclaimed by a number of states, is probably too broad in terms of international practice. International law does not encroach … also possible to take into account a number of decisions rendered by the European Court of Human Rights …

engaging Australia’s commitments under World Trade Organisation law. This article assesses whether the Bill safely navigates … purposes, aspects of it raise potential problems of incompatibility with WTO law because it takes a decentralised national … under the scheme, the scope and interpretation of environmental exceptions in WTO law, and the nature of implementing …