Maxine Burkett

University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law

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Honolulu, HI 96822-2350

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Just Solutions to Climate Change: A Climate Justice Proposal for a Domestic Clean Development Mechanism

Buffalo Law Review, November 2007, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-26
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 12 Oct 2007
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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climate change, environmental justice, cap-and-trade, clean development mechanism, climate justice

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In Search of Refuge: Pacific Islands, Climate-Induced Migration, and the Legal Frontier

Asia Pacific Issues, No. 98, January 2011
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 04 Feb 2011
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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Much Ado About...Something Else: D.C. v. Heller, the Racialized Mythology of the Second Amendment, and Gun Policy Reform

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-11
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Mar 2008
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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constitutional law, Second Amendment, African American, gun policy, Supreme Court

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Climate Reparations

Melbourne Journal of International Law, Vol. 10, 2009
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 22 Jan 2010
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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Reconciliation and Non-Repetition: A New Paradigm for African-American Reparations

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-35
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Oct 2006
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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A Justice Paradox: On Climate Change, Small Island Developing States, and the Quest for Effective Legal Remedy

University of Hawaii Law Review, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2013
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Apr 2014
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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Climate-Induced Displacement and Climate Disaster Law: Barriers and Opportunities

This is a draft chapter. The final version will be available in Climate Disaster Law: Barriers and Opportunities edited by Rosemary Lyster & Robert R.M. Verchick, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2018, Forthcoming, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 17/85
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 12 Oct 2017
Rosemary Lyster and Maxine Burkett
The University of Sydney Law School and University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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climate displaced persons, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, relocation and resettlement, compensation, Paris Agreement, Sendai Framework, Sustainable Development Goals, Task Force on Displacement, UN Global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration

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Duty and Breach in an Era of Uncertainty: Local Government Liability for Failure to Adapt to Climate Change

George Mason Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 775, 2013
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 27 Dec 2013
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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climate change, climate adaptation, government duty, disaster preparedness

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The Nation Ex-Situ: On Climate Change, Deterritorialized Nationhood, and the Post-Climate Era

2 Climate Law 345, 2011
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Dec 2013
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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climate change, climate migration, international law

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Litigating Climate Change Adaptation: Theory, Practice, and Corrective (Climate) Justice

Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 42, No. 12, 2012
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Jan 2014
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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climate change, climate justice, corrective justice, tort law

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Strategic Voting and African-Americans: True Vote, True Representation, True Power for the Black Community

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-37, Michigan Journal of Race and Law, Vol. 8, pp. 425-469, 2002-2003
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 05 Dec 2006
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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voting rights, civil rights, race, African-Americans, Latinos, politics

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Climate Justice, Climate Change Discourse, and the Failure of the Elite-Driven Democracy: A Think Piece

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 Dec 2013
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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climate justice, climate change, environmental justice

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Reaching Higher Ground: Avenues to Secure and Manage New Land for Communities Displaced by Climate Change

Center for Progressive Reform (May 2017), Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Research Paper No. 2017-07
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 08 Sep 2017
Maxine Burkett, Robert R. M. Verchick and David Flores
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and Center for Progressive Reform
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Climate Disruption, Community Relocation, Disaster Law, Displaced Peoples

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Climate Justice and the Elusive Climate Tort

Yale Law Journal Online, Vol. 121, No. 115, 2011
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 27 Dec 2013
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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climate justice, climate change, environmental justice, corrective justice

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From Surviving to Thriving: Equity in Disaster Planning and Recovery

Number of pages: 120 Posted: 05 Mar 2019
Victor Byers Flatt, Alyson Flournoy, Karen C. Sokol, Robert R. M. Verchick, Rebecca M. Bratspies, Maxine Burkett, John D. Echeverria, Daniel A. Farber, David Flores, Evan Isaaceson, Alice Kaswan, Christine A. Klein, Sarah Lamdan, Joel A. Mintz, Sidney A. Shapiro, Joseph P. Tomain and Katie Tracy
University of Houston Law Center, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, City University of New York - School of Law, University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law, Vermont Law School, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Center for Progressive Reform, Center for Progressive Reform - CPR Policy Analyst, University of San Francisco - School of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, CUNY School of Law, Nova Southeastern University, Wake Forest University School of Law, University of Cincinnati - College of Law and Center for Progressive Reform
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environment, environmental law, disaster, disaster law, RCRA, CERCLA, Emergency Waiver, EPCRA,FEMA, Planning, Migration, Relocation, Resilience, Stormwater, NEPA, Stafford Act, climate, Environmental Justice

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Climate Disobedience

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, Vol. XXVII, No. 1, 2016
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 Jan 2019
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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Reading Between the Red Lines: Loss and Damage and the Paris Outcome

Climate Law, Volume 6: Issue 1-2, 2016
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 07 Mar 2019
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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Loss and Damage

4 Climate Law 119 (2014)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 07 Mar 2019
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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loss and damage

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Sea-Level Rise and the Marshallese Diaspora

Environmental Justice, March 2017
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 19 Dec 2018
Seiji Yamada, Maxine Burkett and Gregory G. Maskarinec
University of Hawaii - Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law and University of Hawaii - Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
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Lessons From Contemporary Resettlement in the South Pacific

Columbia Journal of International Affairs, Spring/Summer 2015, Vol. 68, No. 2
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Feb 2019
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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Hawai‘i and U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment

Ch. 23: Hawai‘i and U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, J. M. Melillo, Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and G. W. Yohe, Eds., U.S. Global Change Research Program, 537-556. doi:10.7930/J0W66HPM, 2014
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Feb 2019
Joanne Leong, John Marra, Melissa Finucane, Thomas Giambelluca, Mark Merrifield, Stephen E. Miller, Jeffrey Polovina, Eileen Shea, Maxine Burkett, John Campbell, Penehuro Lefale, Fred Lipschultz, Lloyd Loope, Deanna Spooner and Bin Wang
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Shoreline Impacts, Setback Policy, & Sea Level Rise

Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy, 2009
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Jan 2019
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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Rehabilitation: A Proposal for a Climate Compensation Mechanism for Small Island States

Santa Clara Journal of International Law 81 (2015)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 03 Jan 2019
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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The Nation Ex-Situ

Book chapter in: Threatened Island Nations (Michael Gerrard & Gregory Wannier eds., Cambridge U. Press 2013)
Posted: 27 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2018
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law

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international law, climate change, climate justice, deterritorialization, climate refugee

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Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Climate Change Adaptation

Book Chapter in: Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal Remedies (Randall S. Abate & Elizabeth Ann Kronk, eds., Edward Elgar 2013)
Posted: 27 Jan 2014
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law

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traditional knowledge, climate change, climate justice, environmental justice, climate adaptation

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The Debate Over African American Reparations

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 6, pp. 449-467, 2010
Posted: 14 Nov 2010
John Torpey and Maxine Burkett
City University of New York and University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law

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Migration and Climate Change

3 CLIMATE LAW 314, 2012
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 17 Jan 2019
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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Justice and Contemporary Climate Relocation: An Addendum to Words of Caution on “Climate Refugees”

New Security Beat, August 8, 2016
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 06 Jan 2019
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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'Drowning Nations' Threaten New 21st Century Statelessness

Wild Singpore, 2011
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 07 Jan 2019
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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Small Island States and the Paris Agreement

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 04 Jan 2019
Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii - William S. Richardson School of Law
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