Environmental Law

A topic within Regulatory & Administrative Law, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Law.

Reading on Environmental Law

2 works

Paper1972

Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects

Christopher D. Stone

Argues American law should grant natural objects like rivers and forests legal standing to sue in their own right through appointed guardians, rather than only through the human interests attached to them.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

Law · Regulatory & Administrative Law

FreeEntry

Series2011

Environmental Politics and Law with John Wargo

John Wargo (YaleCourses)

Argues that environmental law has repeatedly failed because statutes regulate substances one at a time while exposure is cumulative, and traces that mismatch through specific cases.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

Law · Regulatory & Administrative Law

FreeIntermediate