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1990

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New Direction For Preservation Law: Creating An Environment Worth Experiencing, Douglas O. Linder Jan 1990

New Direction For Preservation Law: Creating An Environment Worth Experiencing, Douglas O. Linder

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Nepa At Twenty: Mimicry And Recruitment In Environmental Law, William H. Rodgers, Jr. Jan 1990

Nepa At Twenty: Mimicry And Recruitment In Environmental Law, William H. Rodgers, Jr.

Articles

We are gathered here to consider not so much a twenty year-old law but a twenty year-old that has been extraordinarily far-reaching and influential. In its own special way, the National Environmental Polic Act and the environmental assessment that it represents have become the legal equivalent of cultural fads such as Hula Hoops, Rubik's Cubes, and Air Jordans.

A good portion of this conference, I suspect, will be devoted to documenting the many measures of NEPA's significance—the legal business it has generated, the institutional moves it has inspired, the precious places it is credited with saving.

My opening remarks will …


Green Property, J. Peter Byrne Jan 1990

Green Property, J. Peter Byrne

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This essay begins an effort to imagine legal principles that further ecological values and to criticize extant principles that embody the antithetical values of exploitation and consumption. I will focus on the transformation of property law inherent in adopting an environmentally sustainable land use program.


Penalties In Settlements Of Citizen Suit Enforcement Actions Under The Clean Water Act, Marcia R. Gelpe Jan 1990

Penalties In Settlements Of Citizen Suit Enforcement Actions Under The Clean Water Act, Marcia R. Gelpe

Faculty Scholarship

This article critiques the feminist view Ute Gerhard offers in “Debating Women's Equality: Toward a Feminist Theory of Law from a European Perspective”. Throughout Debating Women's Equality, Gerhard appears to have three ambitious objectives in mind: (1) to decry the paucity of research into women's legal history while beginning to do the needed work, focusing primarily on Germany but also broadly exploring European trends, (2) to demonstrate that German/European women's legal history ultimately vindicates reliance on “equal rights” as a political strategy for women, and (3) to develop an understanding of legal equality that can serve as a meaningful tool …