Most Recent Articles from Georgetown International Environmental Law Review

• Genetic Use Restriction Technologies: Do the Potential Environmental Harms Outweigh the Economic Benefits? 

  INTRODUCTION For more than 10,000 years, agriculture has been big business.1 The agricultural revolution that started in Mesopotamia led to the...

  01/01/08 by Barron, Jason A · More from publication

• An Extinction Bar to Patentability 

  Biodiversity possesses significant economic value, not least as a source of natural biochemicals discovered through bioprospecting. However, human...

  01/01/08 by Torrance, Andrew W · More from publication

• A New Call of the Wild: Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Namibia 

  ABSTRACT The Namibian government is currently addressing the twin goals of environment protection and rural economic development by means of an...

  01/01/08 by Boudreaux, Karol · More from publication

• Narrowing the Accountability Gap: Toward a New Foreign Investor Accountability Mechanism 

  I. INTRODUCTION An ever-increasing number of standards, guidelines, principles, norms, and best practices (hereinafter "standards and norms") have...

  01/01/08 by Bridgeman, Natalie L; Hunter, David B · More from publication

• NAAEC Citizen Submissions Against Mexico: An Analysis of the Effectiveness of a Participatory Approach to Environmental Law Enforcement 

  With the recent free trade debate surrounding the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the time seems ripe to assess the effectiveness of...

  10/01/07 by Dorn, Jonathan G · More from publication

• Paper Battle on the River Uruguay: The International Dispute Surrounding the Construction of Pulp Mills 

  ABSTRACT This comment explores the legality of the Uruguayan government's decision to approve the construction of two pulp mill plants on the...

  10/01/07 by del-Cerro, Maria Alejandra · More from publication

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