
Environmental Liability Insurance Law: An Analysis of Toxic Tort and Hazardous Waste Insurance Coverage Issues
An analysis of toxic tort and hazardous waste insurance coverage issues from the perspective of environmental liability insurance law.
An analysis of toxic tort and hazardous waste insurance coverage issues from the perspective of environmental liability insurance law.
The first principle of insurance reflects the fundamental lesson of the tragic California fires: you can’t get something for nothing. If expected...
The per se rule against specific enforcement of personal service contracts is well established under Anglo-American contract law. At the same time...
In this chapter, we put forth a case study of Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. We detail the legal and contractual issues that arose as the parties...
The idea of institutionalism figures prominently in today’s debates about the role of federal courts in American democracy. For example, Chief Justice...
History and precedent tell us that the just compensation requirement has been implemented by a complex network of remedies providing multiple avenues...
This Essay expounds on the outsized role of private law in governing ownership of new technologies and data. As scholars lament gaps between law and...
The Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law filed this amicus brief on behalf of San Bernardino...
State public utility commissions are at the forefront of the clean-energy transition. These state agencies, which have jurisdiction over energy...
The glaring gap in tort theory is its failure to take adequate account of liability insurance. Much of tort theory fails to recognize the active and...
This report identifies transportation-efficient, healthy, high-opportunity areas for housing development. Adding both market-rate and below-market...
An upcoming Supreme Court case on Article III standing and disability presents critical questions about the future of litigation that promotes...
“Dignity” is a rallying cry of social and political movements worldwide. It also appears in legal doctrine and scholarship. But the meaning of dignity...
On November 5, an anti-environmentalist faction led by and supporting Donald Trump prevailed in the national elections. The policy assaults by Trump &...
Brief filed Oct. 25, 2024 in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, __ S. Ct ___ (2024).
Three established torts require the defendant’s behavior to be “offensive” or “highly offensive” in order to be actionable: offensive battery, public...
This paper, prepared for the 2023 Clifford Symposium on “New Torts” at DePaul Law School, addresses the tort of offensive battery. This is an ancient...
It has long been said that the common law "works itself pure" But in the law of torts, not always. This Article reveals and analyzes the...
California faces a dire housing crisis. California’s land-use regulatory system remains a key driver of this crisis. State law grants local...