Environmental justice is a significant and dynamic contemporary development in environmental law. Rechtschaffen, Gauna and new coauthor O'Neill provide an accessible compilation of interdisciplinary materials for studying environmental justice, interspersed with extensive notes, questions, and a teacher's manual with practice exercises designed to facilitate classroom discussion. It integrates excerpts from empirical studies, cases, agency decisions, informal agency guidance, law reviews, and other academic literature, as well as community-generated documents.
This second edition includes new chapters addressing climate change, international environmental justice, and a capstone case study. It also adds expanded coverage of risk and the public health, empirical environmental justice research, and environmental justice for American Indian peoples.
Clifford Rechtschaffen was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission by Governor Jerry Brown in 2017. He was formerly a Professor and Director of the Environmental Law Program at Golden Gate University School of Law.
Eileen Gauna is an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law.
Catherine O'Neill is an Environmental Scholar & Adjunct Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School.