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Practicing Environmental Law

3rd Edition
Todd Aagaard | Dave Owen | Justin Pidot
ISBN: 9798887869841
Subject: Environmental Law
Format: Print & Electronic - Hardbound
Page Count: 870
Copyright: 2025 | Status: Coming Soon

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Practicing Environmental Law brings the provocative challenges of environmental law practice into the classroom. The book covers the traditional subject matter of an environmental law course, but with an innovative practice-based approach. Each chapter is organized around a series of case study-style problems, which require students to address an environmental problem relying on a range of supporting materials. As students work through the book, they will develop an environmental justice advocacy strategy, decide whether to bring novel Clean Air Act litigation to address climate change, consider whether fireworks displays are point sources of water pollution, assess whether the Army Corps of Engineers must prepare an environmental impact statement for a new utility line, negotiate an enforcement settlement, and negotiate the contents of a landscape-scale habitat conservation plan—among many other exercises. In tackling these problems, students will review and use affidavits, administrative orders and guidance documents, biological opinions, white papers, letters, and other document types, in addition to many statutory and regulatory excerpts and court cases. In short, they will simulate the work that environmental attorneys actually do in practice. The casebook and the accompanying online self-assessment questions written by the authors teach the basics of environmental law and also help students gain deeper understanding of, and heightened enthusiasm for, a crucially important legal field.

Among other changes, the new third edition of Practicing Environmental Law addresses recent Supreme Court decisions like West Virginia v. EPA, Sackett v. EPA, and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo; includes a new capstone CERCLA project addressing cleanups on the Navajo Nation; adds a new problem on Endangered Species Act consultation; and refines and streamlines many of the existing materials.

This title utilizes the CasebookPlus™ platform. Anchored by faculty-authored self-assessments, CasebookPlus allows students to test their understanding of core concepts as they are learning them in class with quizzes keyed to each chapter, subject area review quizzes, and helpful explanations. Learn more at Faculty-CasebookPlus.com.


Imprint: Foundation Press
Series: University Casebook Series
Publication Date: 06/05/2025

Todd Aagaard, Villanova University School of Law

Dave Owen, UC College of the Law, San Francisco

Justin Pidot, University of Arizona College of Law

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Among other changes, the new third edition of Practicing Environmental Law addresses recent Supreme Court decisions like West Virginia v. EPA, Sackett v. EPA, and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo; includes a new capstone CERCLA project addressing cleanups on the Navajo Nation; adds a new problem on Endangered Species Act consultation; and refines and streamlines many of the existing materials.

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