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The Public Trust Doctrine in Motion. PTDIM, LLC. ISBN 978-0-615-24111-1. Velozo de Melo Bento, Lucas (November 14, 2009). "Searching for Intergenerational Green Solutions: The Relevance of the Public Trust Doctrine to Environmental Preservation". Common Law Review (11): 7– 13. SSRN 1709104. Wood, Mary Christina (2014).
The leading case that established the public trust doctrine in the U.S. is the 1892 Supreme Court case Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois.The Court held that public trust submerged lands belong to the respective States within which they are found, with the consequent right to use or dispose of any portion thereof, when that can be done without substantial impairment of the interest of the ...
Mary Christina Wood (born 1962) is an Oregon Philip H. Knight Professor of Law and author, best known for her writings advocating for the use of the public trust doctrine to compel government action on climate change. Wood originated the approach, called atmospheric trust litigation, "to hold governments worldwide accountable for reducing ...
The public trustee is an office established pursuant to national (and, if applicable, state or territory) statute, to act as a trustee, usually when a sum is required to be deposited as security by legislation, if courts remove another trustee, or for estates if either no executor is named by will or the testator elects to name the public trustee.
United States trust law is the body of law that regulates the legal instrument for holding wealth known as a trust.. Most of the law regulating the creation and administration of trusts in the United States is now statutory at the state level.
The doctrine of cy-pres is a form of variation of trusts; it allows the original purpose of the trust to be altered. The doctrine originated in ecclesiastical law, the name coming as a contraction of the Norman French cy pres comme possible (as close as possible), [71] and is typically used where the original purpose of the charity has failed ...
Internet publisher Eric Eldred was the lead petitioner, and was joined by a group of commercial and non-commercial interests who relied on the public domain for their work (including Dover Publications) and many amici including the Free Software Foundation, the American Association of Law Libraries, the Bureau of National Affairs, and the ...
Navigable servitude is a doctrine in United States constitutional law that gives the federal government the right to regulate navigable waterways as an extension of the Commerce Clause in Article I, Section 8 of the constitution.