This article analyzes more than four decades of environmental law, regulation, and
governance in various Anglo-Saxon and global jurisdictions. It shows how, after the heydays …

Background Horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and other drilling and well stimulation
technologies are now used widely in the United States and increasingly in other countries …

Environmental protection has gone from a realm of broad political consensus in the 1970s to
a domain of bitter partisan battles today. As a result, virtually no substantial environmental …

Both of us had the privilege of serving in government with Dick Stewart when he was the
Assistant Attorney General for the Envi-ronment and Natural Resources Division of the US …

" Change is constant in nature and society."'In particular," institutional change is constant
and inevitable." 2 Indeed, some have characterized the constancy and inevitability of …

The pliability of statutory goals is likely to significantly affect the ability of an agency to
achieve regulatory or management objectives in the face of novel challenges or changing …

Two paradoxes associated with big data are relevant to global gover-nance. First, while
promising to increase the capacities of humans in governance, big data also involve an …

The development of increasingly sophisticated information technology presents
opportunities and challenges for the operation of the regulatory state. This Article addresses …

Blockchain technology is increasingly attracting the attention of governments and public
institutions around the world. As a distributed ledger that is tamper resistant and available as …

Legal norms that are translated into quantitative indicators have the potential to shape
behavior, even absent legal penalties, because numbers are easy to understand and …