The Environmental Law & Practice Review is an initiative of the S.P. Chatterjee Centre for Environmental Law Studies at NALSAR Law University, which serves as a forum for consultation and debate on various environmental and legal issues. The journal, which is India`s only student journal devoted to discourse on environmental law, is seen by society as an important part of its mission to promote science in environmental law and policy. We want to promote environmental discourse and promote dialogue on an issue that has recently emerged as a topic with important implications. Students are particularly encouraged to write for the journal and contribute to the discussion and debate on current legal, political and policy issues related to the environment, and no fees are charged for publication aimed at further promoting such confabulation. Michaël B. Gerrard is the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School and Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He teaches environmental law, energy regulation, and climate change law and is chair of the faculty of the Earth Institute at Columbia. Until December 2008, he headed the New York office of Arnold & Porter LLP and its environmental law practice; Today, he is the firm`s senior counsel. He has been working as an environmental lawyer since 1979. From 2004 to 2005, he was President of the Environment, Energy and Resources Section of the American Bar Associations. He has also served as President of the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and as Past Chairman of the Executive Committee of the New York City Bar Association. He has served on the executive committees of the Environmental Law Institute and the American College of Environmental Lawyers.
He is the editor of Matthew Benders` Twelve-Volume Guide to the Practice of Environmental Law, which was voted Best Law Book of the Year by the Association of American Publishers when it was published. He is editor of Matthew Benders` four-volume publication, Brownfields Law and Practice, which won the Law Book of the Year award in 1998. He is co-author of Matthew Bender`s Environmental Impact Review in New York (with Daniel Ruzow and Philip Weinberg), author of Whose Backyard, Whose Risk: Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting (MIT 1994), editor of Matthew Bender`s monthly newsletter Environmental Law in New York, and since 1986 co-author of the monthly environmental law column in the New York Law Journal. His other books are The Law of Environmental Justice (2nd ed. ABA 2008), Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (2nd ed. ABA 2014), The Law of Clean Energy: Efficiency and Renewables (ABA 2011) and The Law of Adaptation to Climate Change (ABA 2012). He was Deputy Director of the Mayors Transit Office in New York City and Special Advisor to the President of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He received his B.A.
from Columbia University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root Tilden Scholar. Website: www.columbiaclimatelaw.com Twitter: @MichaelGerrard ELPR was founded in 2010 and the first issue appeared in 2011, since then it has been published annually. It is exclusively committed to developments and trends that characterize environmental law and is published annually at the convocation ceremony. ELPR publishes articles on a variety of topics in natural resource law, environmental policy, law and business, and other related topics relevant to environmental law. We accept contributions from students, academics, practitioners, activists or other writers throughout the year. The journal is supported by a student editorial board and advisory board composed of eminent personalities such as the Honourable Justice Kuldip Singh, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Founder, Navdanya, Shyam Divan, Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India, Dr. Sejal Worah, WWF Programme Director, India, Professor Wil Burns of Santa Clara University and Mr. Nigel Howorth, partner at Clifford Chance, is composed.
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