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Past, Present, and Future Trends of the Endangered Species Act

Ruhl, J. B. (Public Land and Resources Law Review, 2004)

this article is designed to convince readers that the past, present, and future trends of the ESA are all the same. To provide context, Part I presents a brief overview of the structure of the statute and the kinds of ...

Climate Change and the Endangered Species Act: Building Bridges to the No-Analog Future

Ruhl, J. B. (Boston University Law Review, 2008)

This Article examines the challenges global climate change presents for the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and its primary administrative agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Climate change will reshuffle ...

The Endangered Species Act's Fall from Grace in the Supreme Court

Ruhl, J. B. (Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2012)

Thirty-five years ago, the Endangered Species Act ("ESA") had as auspicious a debut in the U.S. Supreme Court as any statute could hope for. In Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, a majority of the Court proclaimed that ...

The Battle Over Endangered Species Act Methodology

Ruhl, J. B. (Environmental Law, 2004)

The substantive contours of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) have been largely worked out for quite some time. Starting in the mid-1990s, however, opponents of Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service ...