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Tracking Transnational Terrorist Resourcing Nodes and Networks
Get PDFIn light of persistent terrorist attacks in Europe and elsewhere, the study of terrorist resourcing and financing has attracted renewed attention. How are terrorists\u27 networks financed? Who raises the financial resources, and how do they transfer them across borders? How does the global financial industry facilitate or impede these transfers? Answers to these and other questions can help law enforcement investigate, disrupt, and neutralize cross-border terrorist resourcing. Evidence and data on this phenomenon is scarce, of questionable quality, irreplicable, and can be difficult to come by. This study is the first comprehensive effort to collect, code, analyze, and compare available open-source case law data on transnational terrorist resourcing networks. Under the study\u27s methodology, the conventional yet strict focus on financing is broadened to resources, which includes forms other than cash, including trade-based fraud and online social networks. The analysis reveals common crossborder resourcing patterns and usage of financial intermediaries such as banks. It thus contributes to the ongoing optimization of anti-terrorist resourcing laws, policies, and risk-management practices
From Mono Lake to the Atmospheric Trust: Navigating the Public and Private Interests in Public Trust Resource Commons
Get PDFThis Article partners a summary of the Mono Lake story — one of the all-time great tales of environmental, property, and water law — with additional historical context, expanded legal analysis, and new reporting on contemporary public trust developments, especially Juliana vs. United States and the unfolding atmospheric trust climate litigation. The Mono Lake case and its progeny — in which the public trust doctrine has been applied in contexts ranging from takings litigation to groundwater management to fracking regulation and now to climate change — prompt reflection about the way the public trust doctrine navigates complex conflicts between public and private rights in natural resource commons. This treatment explores the origins of the public trust doctrine in Roman and British common law through its development in American law, including the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1892 affirmation of the doctrine as a background principle of state law in Illinois Central Railroad vs. Illinois. It then introduces the law of private water allocation in the eastern and western United States — riparian rights and prior appropriations, respectively. It considers how the public commons theory that underlies the public trust doctrine collides unapologetically with the privatization theory that undergirds the western doctrine of prior appropriations, enabling academic analysis of how this conflict so famously played out at Mono Lake. The Mono Lake case, National Audubon Society v. Superior Court, arose over water conflicts between Los Angeles and the Mono Lake Basin, the eastern watershed of Yosemite National Park, some 400 miles to the north. In 1983, the California Supreme Court took the first steps toward resolving that conflict by drawing on an ancient common law doctrine with roots in early Roman and British law — the public trust doctrine — which entrusts the state to manage certain natural resource commons for the benefit of the public. Since then, the Mono Lake case has remained the leading example of modern public trust litigation in the United States, inspiring a new age of public trust advocacy throughout the country and even the world. The article summarizes the historical and judicial elements of the Mono Lake story, including the implications of the court’s decision for understanding the public trust doctrine as a limit on sovereign authority. It summarizes the criticisms that followed from advocates for property rights, the constitutional separation of powers, and environmental concerns, and reviews the doctrinal progeny of the case, including the Scott River extension of Audubon Society to groundwater resources, the Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court’s application of public trust principles to fracking regulation, and now the atmospheric trust climate litigation emerging worldwide
FSU Law Focus - 12/20/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: 2019 Year in Reviewhttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1009/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 05/10/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: Celebrating 2019 graduates; Laurel Tallent Honored for Pro Bono Service; Faculty & Alum Profile: Robert A. Pierce (’73); Student Profile: 2019 Grad Shannon Brophyhttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1266/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 02/15/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: 2019 Pro Bono Service Awards Ceremony; Faculty Profile: Martin B. Sipple;Alum Profile: David J. Gillis (’09); Student Profile: 3L Rachel Eilershttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1316/thumbnail.jp
FSU Law Focus - 03/15/2019
Get PDFFrom the Dean: Welcoming Florida\u27s Newest Justices; Board of Visitors Members Visit FSU Law; Alum Profile: Jeanne M. Miller (’95); Student Profile: 3L Charly Bankshttps://ir.law.fsu.edu/fsu-law-focus/1345/thumbnail.jp
