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Natural Jurisdiction: Shifting Boundaries from Exploitation to Connection

Essay for International Public Law Course, 2021. Published on SSRN. Abstract The biodiversity crisis has been compared to a war that we are losing. International environmental laws are meant to protect but the combative language and actions around our relationship with nature remains. The Eurocentric legal grounding of nature as property is problematic as ecological …

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Coal mining conflicts cross borders

Issues with Canadian environmental law and regulations can often stem from conflicts between federal and provincial jurisdictions, especially around the need for impact assessments. But another border is often overlooked and that is with our neighbours to the South. This transboundary conflict regarding pollution runoff between Canada and the United States is still ongoing. The …

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