Environmental Law and Policy - by Donald T Hornstein (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Environmental Law and Policy is the book accompanying Professor Hornstein's full undergraduate course of the same name. Through it, he introduces some of the major substantive themes in environmental law and gives students insight and experience with critical thinking about these themes. Students will demonstrate mastery by learning how past environmental disputes have been resolved, and by applying insights and critical-thinking skills from past disputes to predicting how future ones might be addressed, including future disputes involving climate change. The book is largely a collection of selected cases, edited by Professor Hornstein, along with explanatory notes before and after the cases.

Included is information on:

* How courts approach "nuisances," including environmental nuisances
* How courts, and administrative bodies, approach water rights
* How environmental protection and protection of property rights mix
* How the law approaches commons management
* How environmental law and individual liberty interact
* How the law approaches issues of environmental justice
* How environmental law approaches questions of risk and causation
* How local, national, and international environmental law interact

About the Author

Donald T. Hornstein, J.D., holds the Aubrey L. Brooks Chair in Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Also a member of the University's Institute for the Environment and UNC's Curriculum in Environment and Ecology, Professor Hornstein has won the Law School's McCall Teaching Excellence Award a record eight times, and has won UNC teaching awards for both post-baccalaureate instruction and outstanding undergraduate teaching. He is currently featured in a book by the Harvard University Press, along with 25 other American law professors, entitled, "What the Best Law Teachers Do."