Environmental Law & Policy: Nature, Law, and Society, Third Edition
To give your students a solid foundation in environmental law doctrine as well as experience building their analytical skills, you can depend on this user-friendly casebook, now in its Third Edition.\ Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society is noted for its comprehensive legal-process approach to the depth and complexity of modern environmental law:\ \ Broad topical coverage is augmented by a reference section, including a Statutory Capsule Appendix and an annotated Glossary of...
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This law school coursebook in environmental law in the United States is organized around legal themes such as differential governmental sovereignties; the variety of statutory approaches; compliance, enforcement, and dispute resolution; private and public rights and responsibilities; and globalization and convergence. The new edition has added two new chapters covering how international legal norms enter into domestic environmental law and the use of cost-benefit analysis as a prescriptive standard for regulation. It has also added greater coverage of market-enlisting approaches and the political history of environmental law, as well as significant new cases and materials. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
PrefaceIntroductionCh. 1Basic themes in the legal process of environmental law3Ch. 2Cross-cutting themes in environmental law42Ch. 3The common law in modern environmental law : nonstatutory causes of action103Ch. 4The special challenges of toxic tort litigation200Ch. 6Power relationships between federal and state governments in environment regulation323Ch. 7The administrative law of environmental law376Ch. 8International agreements as domestic environmental law435Ch. 9Federal agency disclosure : NEPA's stop-and-think logic, and the power of information471Ch. 10Corporate disclosure : shaping private response by required production of information471Ch. 11Harm-based ambient standards : the Clean Air Act551Ch. 12Technology-based standard-setting : the Clean Water Act620Ch. 13Standard-setting via cost-benefit procedures676Ch. 14Market-enlisting statutory strategies : pollution trading and other economic incentives712Ch. 15Technology-forcing standards743Ch. 16Roadblock strategies : stark prohibitions and their viability772Ch. 17Product regulation and market-access strategies : pesticides and toxics816Ch. 18Life-cycle waste control strategies : RCRA's "cradle-to-grave" regulation845Ch. 19Remedial liability strategies : toxic cleanups and their funding under CERCLA and state programs886Ch. 20Environmental criminal law957Ch. 21Evolving patterns of enforcement and compliance999Ch. 22Public environmental rights and duties : the public trust doctrine1065Ch. 23Private property and public rights : constitutional limits on physical and regulatory takings1112Ch. 24Public resource management statutes1178Ch. 25Land use-based environmental protection statutes1216Ch. 26International and comparative environmental law1257Afterword : facing the future1308
