Synopses & Reviews
Do trees have legal rights? What risks to the environment should we legally try to control or prevent? In this updated edition of Green Justice, the authors further explore the interrelationship between the legal system and the environment, using key environmental law cases (over half of which are new selections) on such topics as population and biodiversityand as recent as 1990. The authors liberal arts approach leads to a wide spectrum of related topics: the history of the common law, the political science of administrative agencies, our obligation to future generations, and the ecology of species extinction.With the help of explanatory introductions, study questions, and references to relevant literature, students are challenged to determine for themselves how the cases should have been decided and how they link up to broader issues. This accessible text is ideal for undergraduate courses in environmental law and environmental policy as well as nonlaw graduate courses in planning or public administration.
Synopsis
In the nine years since Green Justice first appeared, the field we have come to identi as "environmental law" has taken a number of twists and turns, few of which were foreseen by the authors or, so far as they know, by anyone else. Although this edition attempts to account for many of these changes, it continues to emphasize what we believed then and continue to believe to be paramount, not only for the study of environmental law but for common-law based jurisprudence in general: Despite the immediacy and crush of daily events, closely reasoned analyses of the difficulties and conflicts arising from environmental conflicts, as embodied in major cases or key decisions such as we present here, provide a stabilizing core around which the swirl of daily events takes place, and against which those events must be evaluated. We believed then, and believe even more strongly now, that this is true not only for legal specialists and scholars but for an educated populace as well. Thus this casebook.
Synopsis
"Do trees have legal rights? What risks to the environment should we legally try to control or prevent? In this updated edition of Green Justice, the authors further explore the interrelationship betwe"
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-244) and index.
About the Author
Thomas More Hoban, a New Hampshire attorney, also serves as environmental consultant to several major manufacturing corporations. Richard Oliver Brooks was founding director of the Environmental Law Center and is professor of law at the Vermont Law School. Thomas More Hoban, a New Hampshire attorney, also serves as environmental consultant to several major manufacturing corporations. Richard Oliver Brooks was founding director of the Environmental Law Center and is professor of law at the Vermont Law School.