Content:
Basic themes in environmentalism --
Cross-cutting themes in environmental law --
The common law in modern environmental law --
The special challenges of toxic tort litigation --
An overview of environmental regulation in the United States --
The administrative law of environmental law : the law of administrative agencies --
Sovereignty in the environmental law context --
Disclosure statutes : public and private information : the power of required disclosure, and the stop-and-think logic of the national --
Public planning as a management tool : governmental oversight of private & public resource use, and the challenge of adaptive management --
Roadblock statutory strategies & the Endangered Species Act : stark prohibitions and their viability --
From harm-based standards to tech-based standards : the Clean Air Act --
Technology-based standard setting : the Clean Water Act --
Using cost-benefit analysis in agency rulemakings & review of regulations --
Market-enlisting strategies : achieving environmental protection through pollution trading and other economic incentives --
Front-end strategies: market entry controls, pollution prevention, toxic use reduction --
Remedial liability regulatory strategies : CERCLA --
Lifecycle regulatory strategies : RCRA --
Evolving patterns of enforcement and compliance --
Environmental criminal law --
Public environmental rights and duties : the public trust doctrine --
Private property and public rights : constitutional limits on physical and regulatory takings --
International and comparative environmental law.