Green Justice: The Environment & the Courts

By Richard Oliver Brooks and Thomas More Hoban

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813326036
• ISBN13: 9780813326030
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Text for Undergrads

I could not disagree more with the negative review. I looked at many text books for teaching an undergraduate course in environmental law, and found this to be the best. I like it because it uses the "casebook" approach, which is good for teaching an undergraduate class in the style of law school. I like it better than "Environmental Law for Non-Lawyers" because it is more case-focused rather than focused on broad matters of policy. I found it even handed and did not find it to present opinion as fact as the other reviewer thought.