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James L. Huffman, "Fish Out of Water: The Public Trust Doctrine in a Constitutional Democracy " Issues in Legal Scholarship, Joseph Sax and the Public Trust (2003): Article 6. Restoring The Trust: Water Resources & The Public Trust Doctrine, A Manual For Advocates (PDF). Center for Progressive Reform. September 2009. "Mono Lake Committee".
Though Illinois Central is frequently cited as the source for American public trust law, it was several decades before, in Martin v. Waddell’s Lessee, that the Supreme Court ratified the public trust doctrine. [2] Still, Illinois Central has been referred to as "the Lodestar in American Public Trust Law". [2]
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 ...
Joseph Lawrence Sax (February 3, 1936 – March 9, 2014) was an American environmental law professor, known for developing the public trust doctrine. [1]Born and raised in Chicago, Sax graduated from Harvard University in 1957 and then earned a J.D. degree in 1959 [2] from the University of Chicago Law School. [1]
Among the other subjects, Frier has addressed in his articles and books are Roman demography, [20] natural fertility and family limitation in Roman marriage, [21] the Roman origins of public trust doctrine, [22] the economy of Greece and Rome, Cicero's urban property management, [23] and the development of Roman private law and the judicial ...
Furthermore, they argued, neither the First Amendment nor the doctrine of public trust is applicable to copyright cases. On October 28, 1999, Judge June Green issued a brief opinion rejecting all three of the petitioners' arguments. On the first count, she wrote that Congress had the power to extend terms as it wished, as long as the terms ...
The first public trustee is that of New Zealand; it was proposed by Edward Cephas John Stevens in 1870 due to the difficulty of finding reliable private trustees in the colony and adopted by Prime Minister Julius Vogel who established the Public Trust and installed Jonas Woodward as the world's first public trustee on January 1, 1873. Initially ...