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Curry On Brooks, 'Before Earth Day: The Origins Of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970' (Book Review), Lynne E. Curry
Curry On Brooks, 'Before Earth Day: The Origins Of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970' (Book Review), Lynne E. Curry
Lynne E. Curry
Karl Boyd Brooks’s examination of environmental law in the mid-twentieth century serves to remind us of the widespread popular and bipartisan political consensus for protecting the environment that had coalesced by the time Americans celebrated the first Earth Day in April 1970. Brooks argues that “ordinary people made environmental law” (p. 5), by which he means that citizens identified unacceptable risks to the environment and initiated protests to which lawyers, legislators, regulators, courts, and policymakers were forced to respond. His account identifies and illuminates the key actors, laws, policies, and processes that produced environmental law as a viable field of …
Curry On Schwarzenbach, 'On Civic Friendship: Including Women In The State' (Book Review), Lynne E. Curry
Curry On Schwarzenbach, 'On Civic Friendship: Including Women In The State' (Book Review), Lynne E. Curry
Lynne E. Curry
In On Civic Friendship, Sybil A. Schwarzenbach engages the reader in an extended exploration of the question, "what holds a good and just society together?" (p. 1). The question seems a particularly urgent one if the reader accepts the author's stark premise that the United States is a democracy in steep decline, a society in which "loyalty and goodness--even justice itself--are frequently laughed at in the face of the almighty dollar, commercial success, or the fame afforded by the wielding of brute power" (p. xi). Schwarzenbach's remedy for this gloomy state of affairs is to resuscitate Aristotle's concept of …
Beyond "Choice": Roe V. Wade As U. S. Constitutional History, Lynne E. Curry
Beyond "Choice": Roe V. Wade As U. S. Constitutional History, Lynne E. Curry
Lynne E. Curry
I teach a general education course in U. S. constitutional history to undergraduates, the majority of whom are not history majors and, in fact, do not have much knowledge of—nor do they have a particular interest in—either women's or gender history. The occasional student is actively hostile to both. But Roe v. Wade (410 U. S. 113, 1973) is a case that virtually all students recognize, even if they do not know exactly what it is that the Supreme Court actually said. Not infrequently, they view Roe either as a case about a narrowly (and often imprecisely) defined "feminist" issue that does not concern …