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Review Of: Dennis W. Nixon, Marine And Coastal Law: Cases And Materials (Praeger 1994), Thomas G. Field Jr. Sep 1996

Review Of: Dennis W. Nixon, Marine And Coastal Law: Cases And Materials (Praeger 1994), Thomas G. Field Jr.

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of the book: Dennis W. Nixon, Marine and Coastal Law: Cases and Materials (Praeger 1994). Index, notes, preface, tables, table of cases. LC 93-30986; ISBN 0-275-93763-1. [392 pp. Cloth $65.00. Post Road West, Westport CT 06881.]


Rising Temperatures: Rising Tides, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson Jan 1996

Rising Temperatures: Rising Tides, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

Prof. Elizabeth Burleson

Transboundary environmental problems do not distinguish between political boundaries. Global warming is expected to cause thermal expansion of water and melt glaciers. Both are predicted to lead to a rise in sea level. We must enlarge our paradigms to encompass a global reality and reliance upon global participation.


Capture And Counteraction: Self- Help By Environmental Zealots (Allen Chair Symposium 1996: The Future Of Environmental And Land-Use Regulation), James E. Krier Jan 1996

Capture And Counteraction: Self- Help By Environmental Zealots (Allen Chair Symposium 1996: The Future Of Environmental And Land-Use Regulation), James E. Krier

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Self-help is a largely neglected topic in American legal studies.1 With the exception of a survey by a group of law students published a dozen years ago,2 there appears to be little, if anything, in our legal literature that confronts the subject in a systematic way.3 This is so, at least, if one defines self-help as I do. To me, the term refers to any act of bypassing the formal legal system in order to get what one wants.