The ''Georgetown Environmental Law Review'' is a quarterly student-edited

law review A law review or law journal is a scholarly journal or publication that focuses on legal issues. A law review is a type of legal periodical. Law reviews are a source of research, imbedded with analyzed and referenced legal topics; they also pr ...

published at

Georgetown University Law Center The Georgetown University Law Center (Georgetown Law) is the law school of Georgetown University, a private research university in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1870 and is the largest law school in the United States by enrollment and ...

covering the legal implications of environmental issues including:

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, renewable energy, and the intersection of the environment and international legal areas such as trade,

human rights Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...

, security, and

technology transfer Technology transfer (TT), also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the person or organization that owns or holds it to another person or organization, in an attempt to transform invent ...

. It was established in 1988 as the ''Georgetown International Environmental Law Review'' and obtained its current title in 2015. The first issue of each year's volume is dedicated to international issues. According to the

Washington & Lee University , mottoeng = "Not Unmindful of the Future" , established = , type = Private liberal arts university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.092 billion (2021) , president = William C. Dudley , provost = Lena Hill , city = Lexing ...

law review rankings, the journal has an

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of 9.02 as of 2020."W&L Law Journal Rankings 2016-2020,"
Washington & Lee University. Accessed: November 28, 2021.

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