What Process Is Due?: Courts and Science-Policy Disputes

by David M. O'Brien

Are judges competent to decide complex scientific disputes over toxic chemicals and hazardous wastes? Have courts gone too far in awarding damages to victims? Does the judiciary unreasonably constrain free market forces and usurp power from democratically elected branches of government? What constitutes judicial "due process" in the regulation of health-safety and environmental risks? David O'Brien addresses these and other key questions in a comprehensive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087154623X
• ISBN13: 9780871546234
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.