Environmental Justice

CUNY Law Review (CUNYLR) invites submissions on the topic of environmental justice (EJ) for publication in Volume 25, Issue 2. Priority will be given to pieces that incorporate an intersectional analysis of environmental justice with anti-Black racism, heteropatriarchy, classism, colonialism, ableism, and other systems of oppression. 

We seek articles, essays, and other submissions that address unresolved problems and emerging environmental justice issues, including, but not limited to:

• White supremacy in property law and urban planning,
• Climate change and its impact on marginalized communities, migration, and disaster response,
• Limitations and consequences of neoliberal “colorblind” reforms to environmental injustice,
• Reparations for environmental racism, 
• EJ in the context of U.S. settler-colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty,
• Economic justice,
• Analysis of recent litigation, legislation, or regulation to address environmental racism, and
• Lessons from campaigns to address environmental injustice led by frontline communities.

For consideration in Volume 25.2 of the CUNY Law Review, contributors are strongly encouraged to submit a manuscript or an abstract by October 15, 2021 to cunylr@law.cuny.edu.

Final decisions on all submissions will be made on a rolling basis. For more information, see our Eligibility and Submissions Guidelines below.

Selected authors will be invited to speak at CUNY Law Review’s annual Symposium in April 2022.  

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