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Foreword: Private, Environmental, Governance, Joshua Ulan Galperin
Foreword: Private, Environmental, Governance, Joshua Ulan Galperin
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This essay is the invited foreword to the 2017 J.B & Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium issue of the George Washington Journal of Energy and Environmental Law. The 2017 symposium was dedicated to the issue of private environmental governance. This essay recognizes the incredible growth of private environmental governance as an area of study in the legal academy. In addition to introducing the various contributions to the symposium issue, this essay proposes that rather than merely studying "private environmental governance" as an independent concept, scholars should look closely at the individual components, "private," "environmental," and "governance," to better understand …
Teaching Substantive Environmental Law And Practice Skills Through Interest Group Role-Playing, Karl S. Coplan
Teaching Substantive Environmental Law And Practice Skills Through Interest Group Role-Playing, Karl S. Coplan
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Most law students take their first introductory course in environmental law during their second year of law school. The traditional first-year curriculum does little to prepare students for the complex statutory and regulatory models for most environmental regulation. Law students at the end of their first year often have had little exposure to statutory interpretation. Further, they often have no exposure to administrative law and regulatory implementation. These students may expect statutes to provide clear statements of rules rather than guidelines for administrative rulemaking. They also tend to view the lawmaking and interpretive process through the traditional lens of congressional …
Lessons From A Lawyer’S Life, Leslie Carothers
Lessons From A Lawyer’S Life, Leslie Carothers
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The author, scholar-in-residence at Pace Law School, received the 2013 ABA Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy. A pioneer in the early years of environmental protection, she expands in this space on her remarks in accepting the honor, drawing insights for today’s environmental professionals.