Call For Papers: Avoiding Disaster: Understanding, Mitigating, and Adapting to the Global Climate Crisis
Volume 24, Issue 3 of the Nevada Law Journal
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
William S. Boyd School of Law
The Nevada Law Journal is pleased to announce a call for papers for its symposium issue, Avoiding Disaster: Understanding, Mitigating, and Adapting to the Global Climate Crisis. This symposium will explore climate change: its causes and effects, current and potential legal solutions, and the implications of these solutions for our society, nation, and world.
Climate change has become one of the biggest threats to human life. Across the world, the effects of climate change are manifest. Rising temperatures are fueling increasingly intense disasters, devastating large parts of the earth. Droughts are becoming longer and more extreme, causing food shortages. Floods are spreading disease and damaging ecosystems and infrastructure. Wildfires are intensifying, becoming more and more difficult to stop. Increasing ocean temperatures are causing more severe tropical storms. Animal habitats are being destroyed.
Climate change can occur through natural factors, such as volcanic eruptions, changes in the strength of the sun, and variations in Earth’s orbit. However, since the 19th century, Earth has been experiencing more rapid changes in the climate, due to human intervention. Humans’ continued reliance on fossil fuels to power their daily activities is just one cause of climate change. Other “man-made” causes of climate change include deforestation, the manufacturing industry, and massive overconsumption. Unfortunately, not only are humans causing climate change, but political polarization and deregulation are multiplying the problem.
Swift action is imperative. Climate change, however, has become a controversial topic among scholars, practitioners, politicians, and the general public. Many are skeptical about climate change and the science behind it. It is important for practitioners and scholars to continue to drive the discussion of climate change with facts and evidence. It is imperative that skeptics are presented with the truth and understand the real danger Earth and its inhabitants are in if climate change is not taken seriously.
This Nevada Law Journal issue seeks to explore the specific issues impacting climate change, proposals of how to best address these issues, and what implications these potential solutions may have moving forward. We invite interested parties to submit abstracts of at least 375 words; we welcome longer summaries and draft papers. The abstracts should be proposals for articles less than 30,000 words. Submissions should be sent to Sydnee Mongeon, Symposium Editor, at [email protected] with the subject line “NLJ Call for Papers.” Abstracts are due May 16, 2023.
Selected authors will be notified by May 30, 2023. Complete drafts will be due August 15, 2023. Accepted submissions will be published in Issue 3, 24 Nev L.J. (forthcoming May 2024).
Submissions should address some aspect of the climate crisis, broadly defined. We are soliciting work on any aspect of what climate change is, current laws and regulations concerning climate change and their effectiveness, what Congress or other law-making authorities, in this country or others, should or should not do to combat climate change, and what issues need to be considered when implementing those proposals. Potential paper topics include, but are in no way limited to, climate change and politics, the impacts of climate change on different groups, environmental law and policy analysis or proposals, contributors to climate change, water rights, the future of fossil fuels, the future of renewable energy, economic policy, climate change issues specific to the Southwest, and lithium mining in Nevada.
The Nevada Law Journal is specifically interested in articles on non-human agriculture and its effects on the climate, however, all climate related topics are also desired.
The Nevada Law Journal will review all proposals and make selections based on quality and relevance. We encourage submissions from both established and emerging scholars, as well as practitioners.
For more information, please contact Professor Bret Birdsong at [email protected], Professor Frank Fritz at [email protected], Sydnee Mongeon at [email protected], or John Bolliger at [email protected].
With gratitude,
William S. Boyd Professor of Law, Bret Birdsong
William S. Boyd Professor of Law, Frank Fritz
Nevada Law Journal Symposium Editor, Sydnee Mongeon
Nevada Law Journal Editor-in-Chief, John Bolliger
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