S1E262 - 'Lessons for a Warming Planet' offers hope and cautions | Modern Law Library

Environmental law in the United States can be a double-edged sword.

"I think that when people think about environmental law, very frequently what they mean is environmental protection, and what that misses is the other side of the coin, that there is a whole lot of law that is meant to exploit the environment," says law professor Brig Daniels.

When Daniels and his writing partner Alejandro Camacho looked at the literature available on the development of environmental law in the United States, they found it lacking.

"Most sort of focus only on environmental...