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Green Gold: The Akkoub’s Settler Ecologies
No full textThe akkoub (Gundelia tournefortii) is a thistle-like plant so precious in Palestinian cuisine that it is often referred to as “green gold.” The risks, as well as the mystique, surrounding the akkoub have only intensified since the state of Israel designated this plant as protected under the Nature and Parks Protection Act. The story of the akkoub as depicted in this article illustrates the three tenets of “settler ecologies”: the regime of environmental protections enacted by the settler state that furthers its domination of the natural landscape and its dispossession of local and Indigenous communities. The first and fundamental tenet of settler ecologies is the juxtaposed mindset it seeks to advance: the entire ecological system is seen through a binary prism, recruiting living beings to what is portrayed as an all-encompassing ecological war. Second, settler ecologies are means of green dispossession, performed by both genocidal elimination and through the accumulation of natural capital. Colonialism and capitalism thus work through conservation to inflict violence on racialized populations, both human and nonhuman. Third and finally, settler ecologies operate through environmental law, its rigid definitions and categories of protection both enabling and regulating their ongoing governance through the ecological state. While ecologies are potent tools in the hands of the settler state, the story of “green gold” also demonstrates how ecological thought might present a way out of the colonial present toward decolonial ecologies
Evolving Principles of Dominant Positition and Predatory Pricing in the Telecommunicatior Sector: Revisiting Bharti Airtel Ltd v. Reliance Industries Ltd.
No full textShades of Green: Navigating the Legality of Environmental Marketing
No full textA majority of Americans are concerned about climate change.1 This fear seems to be a driver of consumer spending decisions. According to a study by PDI Technologies, 68% of Americans are willing to spend more on environmentally sustainable products than their competitors that are not sustainable.2 This number has steadily grown over the past two years.3 This figure is even greater for key marketing demographics. 77% of Gen Z, 72% of millennials, and 76% of parents would be willing to do so. Because of this, companies have increasingly sought to position and market themselves as green companies.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on March 15, 2024. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above
The Role of Congress in Enforcing Supreme Court Ethics
No full textThe article focuses on the constitutional authority of Congress to regulate the ethical conduct of Supreme Court Justices. It explores historical precedents, constitutional limitations, and proposed mechanisms for enforcement, emphasizing the importance of transparency and public trust in maintaining the integrity of the judiciary
Media and Society After Technological Disruption
No full textThe internet has reshaped the media landscape and the social institutions built upon it. Competition from online media sources has decimated local journalism and diminished the twentieth century\u27s established journalistic gatekeepers. Social media puts individual users front and center in the creation of the content that they consume. Harmful speech can spread further and faster, and the institutions responsible for policing that speech-Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and the like-lack any clear twentieth-century analog. The law is still working to catch up to the world these changes have wrought. This volume gathers sixteen scholars in law, media, technology, and history to consider these changes. Chapters explore the breakdown of trust in the media, changes in the law of defamation and privacy, challenges of online content moderation, and financial viability for journalistic enterprises in the internet age. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core