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Checks Without Balance: Executive Office Oversight Of The Environmental Protection Agency, Robert V. Percival Oct 1991

Checks Without Balance: Executive Office Oversight Of The Environmental Protection Agency, Robert V. Percival

Law and Contemporary Problems

The tension between the rule of law and the politics of regulation reflected in oversight by the Executive Office of the President of the EPA. The presidential use of regulatory review and the congressional responses it has provoked pose new challenges to theories of the impact of separation of powers on federal policymaking.


The Tragedy Of Distrust In The Implementation Of Federal Environmental Law, Richard J. Lazarus Oct 1991

The Tragedy Of Distrust In The Implementation Of Federal Environmental Law, Richard J. Lazarus

Law and Contemporary Problems

The relationship between the EPA and Congress Since the founding of the EPA in 1970 has been marked by congressional oversight that has seriously frustrated the development and implementation of federal environmental protection policy. A destructive cycle has emerged: agency distrust has led to the failure of its policies, creating further distrust and further failure.


The Genesis Of The Canadian Criminal Code Of 1892, Keith Jobson May 1991

The Genesis Of The Canadian Criminal Code Of 1892, Keith Jobson

Dalhousie Law Journal

Brown gives an interesting and readable account of the background of the 1892 Code and its genesis in the politics of the day. His preface and six short chapters are followed by an epilogue, a short biographical note and footnotes. Chapter One deals with the ambiguity of the term "code". Clearly, the 1892 Code was not a codification in the civilian tradition as exemplified, for example, in the Napoleonic Code, nor was it even a code such as Bentham might have drafted. It was a "code" only in the loose sense in which.the word was used by English and Canadian …


Liberal Theory And The Need For Politics, Steven Shiffrin May 1991

Liberal Theory And The Need For Politics, Steven Shiffrin

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Liberalism and the Good Edited by R. Bruce Douglass, Gerald M. Mara, and Henry S. Richardson


Treatise Writing And Federal Jurisdiction Scholarship: Does Doctrine Matter When Law Is Politics?, Richard A. Matasar May 1991

Treatise Writing And Federal Jurisdiction Scholarship: Does Doctrine Matter When Law Is Politics?, Richard A. Matasar

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Federal Jurisdiction by Erwin Chemerinsky and Federal Jurisdiction 1990 Supplement by Erwin Chemerinsky