Tag: Environmental Law
Strategic Minerals and the Global Commons: United States Deep Seabed Mining in an Era of Evolving Ocean Governance
(source) Deep seabed mining has emerged as one of the most legally contested and strategically consequential resource issues facing the United States today. As global demand for critical minerals accelerates amid the energy transition, renewable energy development, and intensifying geopolitical competition, the seabed has become a high-stakes frontier. States now seek to secure supply chains,…
19 Mar 2026
Dust to Dust: Why We Should Legalize Human Composting
Maura Pallitta is a second-year law student at Cornell Law School. She grew up in New Jersey, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied history and political science. She is an associate for Cornell Law School’s Journal of Law and Public Policy.
3 Nov 2022
The Drilling Conclusion
By Natasha Bhushan Recent democratic protests in the Middle East have had the inconvenient effect of raising the price Americans pay at the pump. Gas prices across the country are near or at record levels. Predictably, this has prompted a flurry of speechmaking and proposals from both sides of the aisle. In a speech last…
4 Apr 2011
The Price is Wrong
The price is wrong! Bob Barker, you know it! The price—the dollars and cents we pay when we buy animal products—is really wrong. Meat, eggs, milk, cheese, and all other sorts of animal foods that so many Americans buy so regularly are, in general, shockingly less expensive than market trends would predict. The sorcery of…
31 Mar 2011