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Home >  Books >  The Demise of Environmentalism in American Law
The Demise of Environmentalism in American Law
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By Michael S. Greve
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
The Demise of Environmentalism in American Law
Dimensions: 6'' x 9''
147 pages
AEI Press  (Washington)
Publication Date: April 1996
Paperback
ISBN: 0-8447-3981-2
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ISBN: 0-8447-3980-4
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Michael S. Greve argues that environmental values no longer play a formative role in American law. Although ecological presumptions have some force, the author shows, the emerging legal doctrines are consistent with more efficient and sensible regulation. It would be a mistake, Greve cautions, to look to the judiciary for wholesale regulatory reform: such reform can come only from Congress. [more...]

Michael S. Greve is the executive director of the Center for Individual Rights and an adjunct scholar at AEI.



Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

  • The Ecological Paradigm
  • Takings
  • Standing to Sue
  • Judicial Review of Environmental Regulation
  • Functional Rules for a Dysfunctional System
  • Environmental Ideology and Real-World Politics

Index
About the Author



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