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Restating Environmental Law, Tracy Hester, Robert V. Percival, Irma S. Russell, Victor Byers Flatt, Joel A. Mintz
Restating Environmental Law, Tracy Hester, Robert V. Percival, Irma S. Russell, Victor Byers Flatt, Joel A. Mintz
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The American Law Institute's work on Restatements is a monumental legal achievement and has helped bring clarity, consistency and guidance to many fields of U.S. law. ALI has not, however, ever undertaken a major project or Restatement on U.S. environmental or natural resource law. This article describes why U.S. environmental law provides a rich area for ALI to tackle, and it answers preliminary objections that ALI is not well suited for this particular challenge or that U.S. environmental law is a poor candidate for a Restatement or a Statement of Principles.
We also describe an informal effort underway by a …