Julian Juergensmeyer is best known for his work on funding of infrastructure, but his seminal treatise on Agricultural Law raises the question of whether the infrastructure left unbuilt can best fulfill some planning goals. The relationship between infrastructure and planning has been studied in...

Border tax adjustments (BTAs) may be able to alleviate concerns of reduced competitiveness for countries introducing environmental taxes and standards, while limiting the risk of companies relocating to developing countries to exploit lax environmental regimes - known as leakage. However, the...

National environmental priorities, as well as international commitments to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, have led to the increased use of ‘smart' energy taxation. In particular in OECD countries, States aim to encourage inter alia the use of renewable sources of energy, through a...

On the twentieth anniversary of the negotiation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fifteenth anniversary of the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC, it is time for the global community to reflect on the future of our system of global climate...

The minimum coverage provision does not require individuals to purchase any unique product or service but rather requires a standardized financial contribution to the national healthcare infrastructure from all legal residents who are able to pay – a kind of requirement that has never been...

In contrast to the whirlwind pace and the efficiency with which the science and commercialization of modern biotechnology have developed in the past few decades, the creation of an adequate and comprehensive regulatory regime for agricultural biotechnology has proven to be a lengthy and arduous...

Michael Bloomberg leaves the mayoralty of New York City, with his health legacy is bitterly contested. The public health community views him as an urban innovator — a rare political and business leader willing to fight for a built environment conducive to healthier, safer lifestyles. To his...

Since the eradication of smallpox was declared in 1980, debate has ensued over what to do with the remaining stocks of the causative agent, variola virus. For more than three decades the World Health Organization has resolved to destroy the virus isolates, now maintained in high-security...

This essay recounts and updates some of my research in property theory and in contract theory. One aim of my research has been to provide pathways for understanding the significance of market-inalienability. In developed societies that feature the institutions of private law, with commitment to...

The past few decades have witnessed the growth of an exciting debate in the legal academy about the tensions between economic pressures to commodify and philosophical commitments to the market inalienability of certain items. Sex, organs, babies and college athletics are among the many topics...