Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Publication Title
Environmental Law Reporter
Publication Title (Abbreviation)
Envtl. L. Rep.
Volume
40
Issue
7
First Page
10644
Last Page
10655
Abstract
A quickly growing number of commentators have suggested that the U.S. courts are already significant drivers of climate change policy, and that their role is likely to increase. In addition to fashioning law on their own, judicial decisions have significant implications for the work of the other branches of government. This Article provides a chronicling of every climate change case filed through December 31, 2009 (more than 130 such cases). It presents basic information about the cases, e.g., the types of cases, where they have been brought, the types of parties involved, and the outcomes. It also analyzes the data to identify trends that have emerged thus far. The Article, in short, presents an empirically based picture of what one New York Times headline describes as courts serving as “battlefields” in “climate fights.”
Rights
© 2010 Environmental Law Institute
Faculty Biography
http://law.fsu.edu/our-faculty/profiles/markell
Recommended Citation
David Markell and J. B. Ruhl,
An Empirical Survey of Climate Change Litigation in the United States, 40
Envtl. L. Rep.
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(2010),
Available at: https://ir.law.fsu.edu/articles/67