Sitting, as it were, as an international as well as a domestic tribunal, we apply Federal law, state law, and international law, as the exigencies of the particular case may demand . . .[1]   1. INTRODUCTION   The United States Supreme Court has heard 137 cases under its Original Jurisdiction.[2] Kansas v. Colorado… Read More

A shift in the use of water and other resources, from a policy or pattern of unchecked water use a few decades ago, to today’s era of water scarcity, has created a situation that has resulted in the potential for disputes over rivers worldwide.  Some of these arguments include the decades-long dispute between Mexico and… Read More

In submitting their disputes over environmental harms to an international court or tribunal the parties to the row seek a remedy for the issue that triggered the action.  Environmental disputes are a relatively recent class of cases that have been litigated in international courts.  Indeed, it has only been over the past two decades that… Read More