Great Lakes Law

Federal court orders the state to deliver bottled water and inform residents about lead contamination in Flint’s drinking water

“In modern society, when we turn on a faucet, we expect safe drinking water to flow out. As the evidence shows, that is no longer the case in Flint. The Flint water crisis has in effect turned back the clock to a time when people traveled to central water sources to fill their buckets and carry the water home.” – U.S. District Court Judge David M. Lawson, Opinion and Order Granting Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary... Read more →

An American Reset - Safe Water & a Workable Model of Federalism

The following guest post is by Professor Cara Cunningham Warren of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. Professor Warren’s background includes both domestic litigation and U.S.-Canadian law, and she is currently an LL.M. candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Her recent article, An American Reset—Safe Water & a Workable Model of Federalism is forthcoming in the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum. In the article, Professor Warren explains the Flint... Read more →

Safe Drinking Water: A Tale of Three Cities - Sixteenth Annual Great Lakes Water Conference at University of Toledo College of Law

Safe drinking water will be the focus of the 16th Annual Great Lakes Water Conference on Friday, November 4, 2016 at the University of Toledo College of Law. Todd Flood, Special Counsel for the Michigan Attorney General Flint water crisis investigation (and a Toledo Law alum) will open the conference with a keynote speech, followed by a panel I’m moderating that will explore the situation and legal developments in Flint in more detail (with NRDC... Read more →