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Adam D. Orford, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, is attending the 29th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as one of the American Bar Association's observer delegation...

18 Nov 2024 7:51am GMT

When academics write about local government, they generally aren't thinking about water districts. Cities get almost all the attention, counties rarely get to be more than a sideshow, special districts are even more obscure, and water districts are particularly overlooked....

12 Nov 2024 4:14am GMT

Adam D. Orford, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, will be attending the 29th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as one of the American Bar Association's observer...

06 Nov 2024 10:05pm GMT

Adam D. Orford, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, will be attending the 29th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as one of the American Bar Association's observer...

29 Oct 2024 2:10pm GMT

Adam D. Orford, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, will be attending the 29th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as one of the American Bar Association's observer...

23 Oct 2024 2:36pm GMT

San Francisco and the US Environmental Protection Agency have brought a longstanding water dispute to the United States Supreme Court. That is a big mistake. If ever a case should be resolved without a Supreme Court decision, this is it....

30 Sep 2024 5:13pm GMT

In politics, there's an old distinction between show horses and work horses. Show horses get attention. Work horses get things done. It's a useful distinction not just for legislators, but also for legal strategies, and it's particularly useful on the...

02 May 2024 12:26am GMT

This post is cross-posted at Legal Planet. For many decades, most people in the United States have obtained their electricity from a large investor-owned utility company (IOU). They had no real choice. Much of U.S. energy law was built on...

04 Dec 2023 7:00pm GMT

We need your help, and it should be fun. But first, some scene setting. It is summer 2023, but it could be last summer, or the next, or the one after that. People are dying in droves from unprecedented heat,...

02 Nov 2023 5:10pm GMT

Scottish author Alistair McIntosh, reflecting on the climate challenge that our communities collectively face, sagely wrote in "Where Now 'Hell and High Water'?" that "consumerism is a false satisifier-just another form of addiction that masks the emptiness." He called upon...

01 Nov 2023 5:00pm GMT