Tag: Climate Change

Institutional Design for Lawmaking and Climate Change: Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future

Richard J. Lazarus - Georgetown University Law Center

During the next four years, the new President, Barack Obama, and new Congress are expected to join together in the first serious effort in the United States to enact sweeping national legislation to address global climate change.  If they are successful, federal climate legislation will be the first major environmental… Read More »

Iterative Federalism and Climate Change

Ann E. Carlson - UCLA School of Law

With the election of Barack Obama as President, national and global attention on climate change will turn to the federal government.  Though the looming economic crisis may slow a federal response, President Obama has made clear his support for ambitious action on climate change with a cap and trade scheme… Read More »