Columbia Law School

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Columbia Law School is internationally renowned as a leading center of legal scholarship with a deep commitment to teaching and professional training. The Columbia Journal of Environmental Law is one of the oldest environmental law journals in the nation and is widely regarded as one of the preeminent environmental journals in the country.

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27 January 2020

U.N. Human Rights Committee issues landmark climate migration decision

UN Human Rights Committee indicate if climate impacts worsen, countries may not return climate migrants to their home states where their right to life is threatened.

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19 December 2019

12 legal tools to push climate preparedness

Law can help society cope with climate change through methods such as building codes, permit conditions, and environmental impact assessments.

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17 July 2019

Global trends in climate change litigation: 2019 snapshot

This policy report provides an overview of current issues in climate change litigation, focusing on selected cases and developments from May 2018 to May 2019. The report draws on the

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25 January 2019

USA: Breaking the cycle of "flood-rebuild-repeat": New white paper from the Sabin Center and the Natural Resources Defense Council

A new paper proposes legal and policy reforms that states and localities can implement to make their communities more resilient, and to update the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for the realities of climate change. The paper focuses on the NFIP's substantial improvement/damage standard to break the cycle of rebuilding in high-risk places.

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25 January 2019

Breaking the cycle of "flood-rebuild-repeat": Local and state options to improve substantial damage and improvement standards in the National Flood Insurance Program

This study analyses how to rectify the disproportionate debt impact that Severe Repetitive Loss homes, which only comprise a small proportion of insured properties and repeatedly flood after being rebuilt, have on the U.S.

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31 August 2018

USA: State disclosure laws leave homebuyers in the dark about flood risks

New research reveals that nearly half of states do not have regulatory or statutory requirements for sellers to disclose a property’s history of flood damages to a homebuyer. As a consequence, many homeowners may never learn their home is vulnerable to flooding until after they find their homes quite literally underwater.

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3 August 2012