Shi-Ling Hsu

Shi-Ling Hsu

Shi-Ling Hsu is a Professor at Florida State University College of Law. Dr. Hsu has also been a Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Law and an Associate Professor at George Washington University. He is an expert in the areas of environmental and natural resource law, climate change, law and economics, and property.
 
Prior to his academic career, Dr. Hsu was Senior Attorney and Economist for the Environmental Law Institute in Washington D.C; Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco; and practiced law with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, California.
 
Dr. Hsu has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, a J.D., from Columbia Law School, and a M.S. in Ecology and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics, both from the University of California, Davis.

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The E.U. "Airline Tax"

The charge that airlines will have to pay for flying in and out of the EU is not a "tax" at all, but the cost of airlines having to hold tradable emissions permits under the EU Emissions Trading System. Starting January 1, 2012, airlines will have to hold permits for the carbon dioxide their airplanes emit during the entire length of a flight that originates or terminates in the EU zone [see EU reg].