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Environmental Law and Policy: The Essentials, Seventh Edition

Authors
  • Jonathan R. Nash
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Description
Offering a big-picture perspective on Environmental Law and Policy, this brief introduction illuminates essential concepts with informal, approachable exposition. The Essentials: Environmental Law and Policy complements any casebook, bridging gaps in students' understanding of basic coverage.

A lucid and succinct overview, The Essentials: Environmental Law and Policyfeatures:

  • basic coverage that traces the content of the leading casebooks, with particular attention given to complex and often baffling environmental statutes
  • major environmental issues and their appropriate regulatory response
  • substantive law in environmental regulation, such as administrative law, tort law, constitutional law, and criminal law
  • an overview of the national infrastructure for environmental regulation Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act National Environmental Policy Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Endangered Species Act - international environmental law, such as the Kyoto Protocol

From a rising star in the field of Environmental Law comes this exciting new title that offers concise, focused coverage of the issues, law, and policy. Jonathan R. Nash's The Essentials: Environmental Law and Policy prepares your students to get the most out of their casebook reading assignments.

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About the authors
Jonathan R. Nash

Jonathan Nash specializes in environmental law, property law, civil procedure, and the study of courts and judges. Before coming to Emory Law, Professor Nash served as the Robert C. Cudd Professor of Environmental Law at Tulane University. He teaches courses in environmental law, international environmental law, property, land use, civil procedure, and law and economics.

Most recently, Professor Nash was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and he has served as a visiting professor at Hofstra University School of Law and a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School. Professor Nash is a prolific scholar, publishing in many top-ranked law journals.

Prior to teaching, Professor Nash was a law clerk to the Honorable Donald Stuart Russell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and to the Honorable Nina Gershon, then-Chief Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Professor Nash also worked as an attorney in New York.

Professor Nash received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School; his J.D. from New York University School of Law, graduating magna cum laude; and his B.A. in mathematics summa cum laude from Columbia University in New York.

Product Information
Edition
Seventh Edition
Publication date
2015-01-30
Copyright Year
2010
Pages
216
Digital Product
9781454860198
Subject
Environmental Law
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