LAW LIBRARY
Amicus Curiae ("Friend of the Court") Briefs
March 13, 2020 - National and Global Experts File Briefs in Support of Juliana v. United States Youth-Led Climate Change Litigation
Amicus Curiae ("Friend of the Court") Briefs
March 1, 2019 - Groups Supporting Juliana v. U.S. Plaintiffs Urge Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to Allow Juliana v. United States to Go to Trial
Brief for Businesses (Guayaki, Royal Blue Organics, Organically Grown Company, Coconut Bliss, Hummingbird Wholesale, Aspen Skiing Company, Protect Our Winters, National Ski Areas Association, Snowsports Industries America, and American Sustainable Business Council)
Brief for Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL); Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW)
Brief for Earthjustice on behalf of Earth Rights International, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Union of Concerned Scientists
Brief for Eco-Justice Ministries
Brief for 78 Environmental Historians
Brief for Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, & Greenpeace
Brief for International Lawyers for International Law
Brief for 82 Law Professors
Brief for League of Women Voters
Brief for Members of U.S. Congress - Senators: Whitehouse, Merkley, Wyden
Reps. DeFazio, Blumenauer, Haaland, Tlaib
Brief for Niskanen Center
Brief for Public Health Experts (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; American Academy of Pediatrics; American Association of Community Psychiatrists; American Heart Association; American Lung Association; American Pediatric Society; American Thoracic Society; Infectious Diseases Society of America; International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment; Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health; National Association of County and City Health Officials; National Environmental Health Association; National Medical Association; and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine; and 78 individual doctors)
Brief for Sierra Club
Brief for Sunrise Movement
Brief for Zero Hour
Amicus Curiae ("Friend of the Court") Briefs
September 5, 2017 - Groups Supporting Juliana v. U.S. Plaintiffs Urge Dismissal of Trump's Mandamus Petition
Brief for Food & Water Watch, Inc., Friends of the Earth
Brief for Niskanen Center
Brief for Center for International Environmental Law, and Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Brief for League of Women Voters
Brief for Earthjustice, EarthRights International, Defenders of Wildlife, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Center for Biological Diversity
Brief for 63 Law Professors including Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
Brief for Sierra Club
Brief for Global Catholic Climate Movement, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Interfaith Power and Light, The Sisters of Mercy of the Americas’ Institute Leadership Team, Sisters of Mercy Northeast Leadership Team, Interfaith Moral Action on Climate, Franciscan Action Network, The National Religious Coalition for Creation Care and Interfaith Oceans, The Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions, Eco-Justice Ministries, San Francisco Zen Center, The Shalom Center, GreenFaith, The Office of Apostolic Action & Advocacy, Christian life Community-USA, and Quaker Earth Witness
Prior Amicus Curiae ("Friend of the Court") Briefs
Brief for League of Women Voters as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs, Juliana v. United States, No. 6:15-cv-1517-TC (D. Or. Sept. 12, 2016).
Brief for Law Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs-Appellants, Chernaik v. Brown, No. A159826 (Or. Ct. App. Feb. 26, 2016).
Brief for John Davidson as Amicus Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs, Juliana v. United States, No. 6:15-cv-1517-TC (D. Or. Feb. 24, 2016).
Brief for Global Catholic Climate Movement and Leadership Council of Women Religious as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs, Juliana v. United States, No. 6:15-cv-1517-TC (D. Or. Jan. 15, 2016).
Brief for Law Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs-Appellants, N. Carolina ex rel. N. Carolina Dept. of Admin v. Alcoa Power Generating, Inc., No. 5:13-cv-633-BO (N.C. Ct. App. Apr. 7, 2016).
Brief for Law Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Appellants, Akilah Sanders-Reed v. Susan Martinez, No. 33,110 (N. M. Ct. App. Mar. 27, 2014).
Brief for Law Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs-Appellants, Alec L. v. Gina McCarthy, No. 13-5192 (D.C. Cir. Nov. 12, 2014).
Legal Articles & Reports
Our Children's Trust Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights and Climate Change (2020).
Michael C. Blumm & Mary C. Wood, ‘No Ordinary Lawsuit’: Climate Change, Due Process, and the Public Trust Doctrine, 67 Am. U. L. Rev. 1 (2017).
Mary Christina Wood & Charles W. Woodward, IV, Atmospheric Trust Litigation and the Constitutional Right to a Healthy Climate System: Judicial Recognition at Last, 6 Wash. J. Envtl. L. & Pol’y 634 (2016).
Keely Boom, Julie-Anne Richards & Stephen Leonard, Climate Justice: The International Momentum Towards Climate Litigation, Climate Justice Programme Report (2016).
Roger Cox, The Decision of the Hague District Court in the Climate Case Urgenda Foundation v The State of the Netherlands, 2016 J. Plan. & Envtl. L. 323 (2016).
Karl S. Coplan, Fossil Fuel Abolition: Legal and Social Issues, 41 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 223 (2016).
Alfred T. Goodwin, A Wake-Up Call for Judges, 2015 Wis. L. Rev. 785 (2015).
Alexander Bukac, Fracking and the Public Trust Doctrine: The Land is Their Land, but After Robinson, Might This Land Really Be Our Land?, 49 U.S.F. L. Rev. 261 (2015).
Mary Christina Wood & Dan Galpern, Atmospheric Recovery Litigation: Making the Fossil Fuel Industry Pay to Restore a Viable Climate System, 45 Envtl. L. 259 (2015).
Michael C. Blumm & Lynn S. Schaffer, The Federal Public Trust Doctrine: Misinterpreting Justice Kennedy and Illinois Central Railroad, 45 Envtl. L. 399 (2015).
John C. Dernbach, The Potential Meanings of a Constitutional Public Trust, 45 Envtl. L. 463 (2015).
Gerald Torres, Joe Sax and the Public Trust, 45 Envtl. L. 379 (2015).
Gerald Torres & Nathan Bellinger, The Public Trust: The Law’s DNA, 4 Wake Forest J. L. & Pol’y 281 (2014).
Kylie Wha Kyung Wager, In Common Law We Trust: How Hawai’i’s Public Trust Doctrine Can Support Atmospheric Trust Litigation to Address Climate Change, 20 Hastings W.-Nw. J. Envt'l L. & Pol'y 55 (2014).
Bradley Freedman & Emily Shirley, England and the Public Trust Doctrine, 2014 J. Plan. & Envtl. L. 839 (2014).
Roger Cox, The Liability of European States for Climate Change, 2014 J. Plan. & Envtl. L. 961 (2014).
Patrick C. McGinley, Climate Change and the Public Trust Doctrine, 65 Plan. & Envtl. L. 7 (2013).
Michael C. Blumm & Rachel D. Guthrie, Internationalizing the Public Trust Doctrine: Natural Law and Constitutional and Statutory Approaches to Fulfilling the Saxion Vision, 45 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 741 (2012).
Gregory S. Munro, The Public Trust Doctrine and the Montana Constitution as Legal Bases for Climate Change Litigation in Montana, 73 Mont. L. Rev. 123 (2012).
Mary Christina Wood, Atmospheric Trust Litigation Across the World, in Fiduciary Duty and the Atmospheric Trust (Ken Coghill, Charles Sampford, Tim Smith, eds., 2012).
Crystal S. Chase, The Illinois Central Public Trust Doctrine and Federal Common Law: An Unconventional View, 16 Hastings W.-Nw. J. Envtl. L. & Pol'y 113 (2010).
Karl S. Coplan, Public Trust Limits on Greenhouse Gas Trading Scheme: A Sustainable Middle Ground?, 35 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 287 (2010).
Mary Turnipseed, Robert Sagarin, Peter Barnes, Michael C. Blumm, Patrick Parenteau & Peter H. Sand, Reinvigorating the Public Trust Doctrine: Expert Opinion on the Potential of a Public Trust Mandate in U.S. and International Environmental Law, 52 Env’t 6 (2010).
Mary Christina Wood, Advancing the Sovereign Trust of Government to Safeguard the Environment for Present and Future Generations (Part I): Ecological Realism and the Need for a Paradigm Shift, 39 Envtl. L. 43 (2009).
Mary Christina Wood, Advancing the Sovereign Trust of Government to Safeguard the Environment for Present and Future Generations (Part II): Instilling a Fiduciary Obligation in Governance, 39 Envtl. L. 91 (2009).
David Takacs, The Public Trust Doctrine, Environmental Human Rights, and the Future of Private Property, 16 N.Y.U. Envtl. L. J. 11 (2008).
Gerald Torres, Who Owns the Sky?, 19 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 515 (2002).
Charles F. Wilkinson, The Headwaters of the Public Trust: Some Thoughts on the Source and Scope of the Traditional Doctrine, 19 Envtl. L. 425 (1989).
Joseph L. Sax, Liberating the Public Trust Doctrine from Its Historical Shackles, 14 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 185 (1980).
Joseph L. Sax, The Public Trust Doctrine in Natural Resources Law: Effective Judicial Intervention, 68 Mich. L. Rev. 471 (1970).
