Ecology Law Quarterly Volume 52 Special Issue Front Matter

Foreword to Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2026 Annual Symposium, Rural Unincorporated California: The Growth of Cities and Who is Left Behind.

Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2026 Annual Symposium Introduction by Abby Neal, Jordan Perry, and Austin McNichols.

In the first event of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2026 Annual Symposium, Camille Pannu discussed what is unincorporated California, and how does it intersect with environmental justice?

In the second event of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2026 Annual Symposium, Miguel Rojas-Flores discussed the unique legal, structural, and practical challenges of providing clean drinking water to disadvantaged unincorporated communities.

In the third discussion of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2026 Annual Symposium, panelists discussed housing and sustainable growth.

In the last panel of Ecology Law Quarterly’s 2026 Annual Symposium panelists discussed the legal barriers to improving drinking water and wastewater systems in rural unincorporated communities.

Protecting natural resources in the territories surrounding tribal reservations—not only on the reservations themselves—is critical to preserving tribes’ self-determined ways of life. Some treaties between tribal governments and the United States reserve tribes’ usufructuary rights, which are the rights to use but not own land in areas surrounding their reservations. ...