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Submissions from 2016

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How the Public Trust Doctrine's Fiduciary Duty Requirement Requires States' Proactive Response to Promote Offshore Power Generation, Andrew S. Ballentine

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A Shift in the Wind: Siting More Wind Power Projects Along Texas' 367-Mile Coast of Gulf Winds, and Mitigating Potential Risk to Migratory Bird Populations, Oscar Burkholder

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Of Life and Limb: The Failure of Florida's Water Quality Criteria to Test for Vibrio Vulnificus in Coastal Waters and the Need for Enhanced Criteria, Regulation, and Notification to Protect Public Health, Felicia Thomas

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Sinclair's Nightmare: SLAPP-ing Down Ag-Gag Legislation as Content-based Restrictions Chilling Protected Free Speech, Jeffrey Vizcaino

Submissions from 2015

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Submerging Islands: Tuvalu and Kiribati as Case Studies Illustrating the Need for a Climate Refugee Treaty, Rana Balesh

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Green Energy in Indian Country as a Double-Edged Sword for Native Americans: Drawing on the Inter-American and Colombian Legal Systems to Redefine the Right to Consultation, Diana Coronel David

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International Legal Protection for Climate Refugees: Where Lies the Haven for the Maldivian People?, Simran Dolla

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Cooling Down Florida's Coast: Saving East Central and Southeast Florida's Sea Turtles From Impacts of Climate Change, Kara Graham

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Eyes on Bangladesh's Disappearing Coasts: Proposed Constitutional Protections for Coastal Communities Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Change, Sabrina Persaud

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Erosion-Induced Community Displacement in Newtok, Alaska and the Need to Modify FEMA and NEPA to Establish a Relocation Framework for a Warming World, Ashley Rawlings

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Please Turn Your Lights Off, the Turtles Are Nesting: Ensuring That Federal, State, and Local Laws Help Guide Endangered Marine Turtle Hatchlings in Florida to the Right Source of Light, Cameryn Justice Rivera

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Improving Substantive and Procedural Protections for Indigenous Rights in REDD+ Projects: Possible Lessons from Brazil, Kristen Taylor

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Big Storms, Big Debt, and Biggert-Waters: Navigating Florida's Uncertain Flood Insurance Future, Loren M. Vazquez

Submissions from 2014

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Full of Hot Air: Why the Atmospheric Trust Litigation Theory Is an Unworkable Attempt to Expand the Public Trust Doctrine Beyond Its Common Law Foundations, Andrew Ballentine

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"Give Them a Dam Break!" Protecting the Ngabe Bugle Community of Panama with Clean Development Mechanism Safeguards to Promote Culturally Sensitive Development, Cindy Campbell

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A Tale of Two Cities: The Need for Greater Federal Involvement to Ensure Proper Notification, Medical Monitoring and Treatment, and Successful Relocation for Tallevast, Florida and Other Environmental Justice Communities, Sabrina R. Collins

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Unquenched Thirst: The Need for a Constitutionally Recognized Right to Water in Ghana, Tia Crosby

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Hydrofracking and Environmental Justice: A Proposal to Lower the Threshold for Evidence of Discriminatory Impact in Title VI Complaints, Mfon Etukeren

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Panama's Pando and Monte Lirio Dams: Proactive Engagement in Environmental Human Rights Through Project Due Diligence Leads to Improved Risk Management and Cost Controls, Gregory M. Karch

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Is the Human Right to Water in Pennsylvania Fracked? An Analysis of the Pennsylvanian Right to Water in the Hydraulic Fracturing Context and a Proposal for Reform Based on French and Ontario Environmental Rights Statutes, Steve Krejci

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A REDD Solution to a Green Problem: Using REDD Plus to Address Deforestation in Ghana Through Benefit Sharing and Community Self-Empowerment, William Daniel Nartey

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Going Overboard: The Criminalization of Seafarers in Violation of Their Human Rights, Regional and Domestic Law's Conflict with UNCLOS and MARPOL, and the Need for Reform, Megan K. Reid

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Respecting the "Guardians of Nature:" Chile's Violations of the Diaguita Indigenous Peoples' Environmental and Human Rights and the Need to Enforce Obligations to Obtain Free, Prior, and Informed Consent, Cynthia Vel

Submissions from 2013

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A Proposal for Addressing Violations of Indigenous Peoples' Environmental and Human-Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System, Natalia Gove

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Thirsty for a Solution: Using the Rural Electrification Administration Model to Resolve the Failure of Privatization of Water Utilities in Bolivia, Michael Nichola

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A Fresher Law: Amending the Florida Right to Farm Act to Include Urban Micro Farming as a Key Initiative to Promote Sustainability, Food Access, and Environmental Justice for Low-Income Communities, Cameryn Rivera

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The Health of Nations: Ecuador's Twenty Year Crusade to Establish Environmental Human Rights as Customary International Law, Annie Wilkinson