The legal status of “guts” — the ephemeral streams of the U.S. Virgin Islands that typically flow only after rainfall — is uncertain. Furthermore, it is unclear what, if any, property interest the Government of the Virgin Islands, and the public, have in these watercourses. This uncertainty stems from the non-navigable nature of guts, and is compounded by the Virgin Islands’ unique legal system, a legal system that recognizes at least some Danish law from its colonial past, and has seemingly inconsistent provisions purporting to confer legal and regulatory interests in these guts to the Government of the Virgin Islands. The uncertain legal status of guts, coupled with the Territory’s lack of a cohesive watercourse management regime, has cau...
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This article discusses the treatment of submerged sovereignty lands transferred to the United States...
Although New Brunswick was founded on private land ownership, colonists who settled low-lying land a...
Our society uses water for a variety of productive purposes, including domestic, agricultural, minin...
The legal status of “guts” — the ephemeral streams of the U.S. Virgin Islands that typically flow on...
The meaning of “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) has been debated in C...
This article explores the development of public trust principles from early Roman and British law th...
Wetlands regulation in the United States has a tumultuous history. The early European settlers viewe...
Empirical evidence suggests that diversion of instream flows for human use, coupled with the potenti...
This article reviews the troubled history of the “Waters of the United States” Rule of the Clean Wat...
This article explores the waters of the state in three parts. First, we look to what the states sa...
Historically, water consumption in the eastern United States has been governed by the common-law rip...
A critical legal issue in water governance is who owns and who holds property rights in water. Hence...
Entrenched in the common law, North Carolina\u27s public trust doctrine applies to waterways and the...
Land-based supplies of freshwater are being increasingly exploited and polluted at the same time tha...
This Article applies an information-cost theory of property to water law. Because of its fluidity, e...
This article discusses the treatment of submerged sovereignty lands transferred to the United States...
Although New Brunswick was founded on private land ownership, colonists who settled low-lying land a...
Our society uses water for a variety of productive purposes, including domestic, agricultural, minin...