Practicing Environmental Law (University Casebook Series)

Aagaard, Todd; Owen, Dave; Pidot, Justin

ISBN 10: 1684678994 / ISBN 13: 9781684678990

Published by Foundation Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practicing Environmental Law (University Casebook Series)
• Publisher: Foundation Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1684678994
• ISBN 13: 9781684678990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Practicing Environmental Law brings the provocative challenges of environmental law practice into the classroom. The book covers the traditional subject matter of an environmental law course, but with an innovative practice-based approach. Each chapter is organized around a series of case study-style problems, which require students to address an environmental problem relying on a range of supporting materials. As students work through the book, they will develop an environmental justice advocacy strategy, decide whether to bring novel Clean Air Act litigation to address climate change, consider whether fireworks displays are point sources of water pollution, assess whether the Army Corps of Engineers must prepare an environmental impact statement for a new utility line, negotiate an enforcement settlement, and negotiate the contents of a landscape-scale habitat conservation plan―among many other exercises. In tackling these problems, students will review and use affidavits, administrative orders and guidance documents, biological opinions, white papers, letters, and other document types, in addition to many statutory and regulatory excerpts and court cases. In short, they will simulate the work that environmental attorneys actually do in practice. The casebook and the ac(more...)