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Joseph L. Sax: The Realm Of The Legal Scholar, Nina A. Mendelson
Joseph L. Sax: The Realm Of The Legal Scholar, Nina A. Mendelson
Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law
It is one of my great regrets that I never really got to know Professor Joseph Sax personally. I joined the faculty at the University of Michigan Law School well over a decade after Sax departed our halls for the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. I met him on one occasion several years ago, when he gave an engaging workshop at Michigan on governance issues around Colorado River water allocation, complete with a detailed map of the watershed. I am exceptionally fortunate, however, to occupy a chair named for him. This is not only because …
Making Ideas Matter: Remembering Joe Sax, Mark Van Putten
Making Ideas Matter: Remembering Joe Sax, Mark Van Putten
Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law
Joe Sax made his ideas matter. He had consequential ideas that shaped an entire field—in his case, environmental law—both in theory and in practice. His scholarship was first rate and has enduring significance in academia, as evidenced by the fact that two of his law review articles are among the 100 most frequently cited articles of all time. Others are more competent to review the importance of his scholarship; my experience in environmental advocacy is more pertinent to evaluating his impact on environmental policymaking. Here, his ideas have had a greater impact than any other legal academic. As the New …