Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Keywords

environmental law

Comments

Translation into Chinese by Professor Li Yanfang.

Abstract

After reviewing the history of environmental law, this article discusses some important lessons that can be learned from its successes and failures. It discusses the continued influence of common law notions of causal injury on the administrative state and how the globalization of environmental concerns is affecting environmental law throughout the world. It concludes by venturing some predictions concerning the future of environmental law.

Disciplines

Environmental Law

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