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Author Brooks, Karl Boyd.

Title Before Earth Day : the origins of American environmental law, 1945-1970 / Karl Boyd Brooks.

Imprint Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  344.046 B791b 2009    ---  Available
Description xxii, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-250) and index.
Contents "To think like an environmental lawyer" : making American environmental law throughout the postwar era -- Seed-time : planting environmental law in the postwar years -- Fertilization : environmental lawmaking in the postwar administrative state -- Harvest home : environmental lawmaking and postwar federalism -- The people out of doors : popularizing postwar environmental law -- Across the new frontier : nationalizing environmental law -- From the files of Bruce Bowler, postwar environmental lawyer -- "A field so varied and rapidly changing" : American law schools discover environmental law.
Subject Environmental law -- United States.
Environmental law -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0700616276 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700616275 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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