Environmental Enforcement: Cases and Materials / Edition 1

by Joel Mintz, Clifford Rechtschaffen, Robert Kuehn

Overview

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Environmental Enforcement is the first casebook devoted exclusively to environmental enforcement issues. Perfect for a specialized course or seminar, or as a supplement to existing survey courses, the book provides in-depth coverage of this emerging and dynamic field. Although literally thousands of attorneys in government, private practice, and public interest organizations are involved in environmental enforcement in all or nearly all of their practice, this subject too often receives only cursory treatment in traditional texts. This book introduces future lawyers to the full range of legal issues and practical challenges they will face when handling environmental enforcement cases.

The book begins with an examination of the theories underlying the various models of environmental enforcement and the appropriate roles of the federal and state governments in enforcement. It then contains chapters on government investigative authorities and administrative, civil, criminal, and citizen enforcement. There also is a lengthy chapter devoted to the specialized issues arising in Superfund enforcement. The book then examines the burgeoning area of compliance incentives and assistance programs, and also discusses alternative enforcement strategies, such as permit bars, public spotlighting techniques, and common law theories. Problem exercises appear throughout the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594600333
Publisher:	Carolina Academic Press
Publication date:	08/01/2007
Series:	Carolina Academic Press Law Casebook Series
Pages:	398
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Joel Mintz is a Professor Emeritus of Law and C. William Trout Senior Fellow in Public Interest Law at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law.

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.

Robert Kuehn is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.