Restating Environmental Law
Abstract
The American Law Institute's work on Restatements is a monumental legal achievement and has helped bring clarity, consistency and guidance to many fields of U.S. law. ALI has not, however, ever undertaken a major project or Restatement on U.S. environmental or natural resource law. This article describes why U.S. environmental law provides a rich area for ALI to tackle, and it answers preliminary objections that ALI is not well suited for this particular challenge or that U.S. environmental law is a poor candidate for a Restatement or a Statement of Principles.
We also describe an informal effort underway by a work group of nearly fifty ALI members to delineate workable environmental law projects that ALI could pursue, and we outline possible fruitful approaches that ALI could use to craft a Restatement or a Project on Principles of U.S. Environmental Law.
Keywords
environmental, law, natural resources, energy, American Law Institute, ALI, Restatement, Project, Principles
Publication Date
2015
Document Type
Article
Publication Information
40 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 1 (2015)
Repository Citation
Hester, Tracy; Percival, Robert V.; Russell, Irma S.; Flatt, Victor B.; and Mintz, Joel A., "Restating Environmental Law" (2015). Faculty Publications. 2255.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/2255
