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The Humbugs Of The Anti-Regulatory Movement, Lisa Heinzerling, Frank Ackerman
The Humbugs Of The Anti-Regulatory Movement, Lisa Heinzerling, Frank Ackerman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
It is so hard to get beyond cynicism these days. Even a symposium devoted to this goal has, as reflected in the articles by Professors Cynthia Farina, Jeffrey Rachlinski, and Mark Seidenfeld, succeeded primarily in suggesting that regulators are not so much selfish as they are obtuse, stubborn, and sometimes downright dumb. Undoubtedly this is true some of the time. But Farina, Rachlinski, and Seidenfeld want to convince us that it is true enough of the time to warrant quite large-scale solutions. In this Comment, we take issue with this pessimistic assessment of regulatory behavior by discrediting the most prominent …
Environmental Law And The Supreme Court: Three Years Later, Richard J. Lazarus
Environmental Law And The Supreme Court: Three Years Later, Richard J. Lazarus
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In my Garrison Lecture three years ago, I surveyed the environmental law decisions of the Supreme Court between 1970 and 1999. I commented on which Justices had been more or less influential in shaping the Court's decisions and, even more provocatively (if not foolishly), sought to "score" the individual Justices on their responsiveness to environmental protection concerns based on their votes cast in a subset of those cases. The broader thesis of the lecture, however, was that there is something distinctively "environmental" about environmental law and that the Court's increasing inability to appreciate that dimension was leading to more poorly-reasoned …