The Stanford Environmental Law Journal is a student-run law review published at Stanford Law School that covers natural resources law, environmental policy, law and economics, international environmental law, and other related disciplines., Homepage.
Overview The journal was established in 1978 as the Stanford Environmental Law Annual to "provide a forum for student papers in developing areas of environmental law."Forward, 1 i (1978). After a three-year hiatus between 1983 and 1986, the journal resumed publication as the Stanford Environmental Law Journal.President's Page, 6 1 (1987). In the 2016 Washington and Lee University Law Journal Rankings, the journal was the second-highest rated environmental, natural resources, and land use law journal by impact factor."Law Journals: Submission and Ranking, 2008-2015," Washington & Lee University (Accessed: September 25, 2016). Articles in the journal have been cited by many state supreme courtsSee, e.g., Peace v. Northwestern Nat'l Ins. Co., 228 Wis. 2d 106 (1999); Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians v. Washoe County, 112 Nev. 743 (1996); Surface Waters of the Yakima River Drainage Basin v. Yakima Reservation Irrigation Dist., 121 Wn. 2d 257 (1993). and United States Courts of Appeals.See, e.g., NRDC v. EPA, 529 F.3d 1077 (D.C. Cir. 2008); Second Generation Props., L.P. v. Town of Pelham, 313 F.3d 620 (1st Cir. 2002); Mont. Wilderness Ass'n v. McAllister, 666 F.3d 549 (9th Cir. 2011). Articles also appear in treatises written by American Law ReportsSee, e.g., Ann K. Wooster, Designation of "Critical Habitat" Under Endangered Species Act, 176 405. and Westlaw.See, e.g., Tracy Bateman Farrell, Conservation Easements, 28 § 16.
Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted or indexed in EBSCO databases, HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw,, Journal Finder: Stanford Environmental Law Journal. and the University of Washington's Current Index to Legal Periodicals., Periodicals Indexed in CLIP. Tables of contents are also available through Infotrieve and Ingenta, and the journal posts some past issues on its website., Past Issues.
See also List of law journals List of environmental law journals
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