Too Big to Jail or Too Abstract (or Rich?) to Care
Abstract
Why has environmental enforcement waned as environmental harms continue to grow bigger? This article, part of a symposium on enforcement of laws in the environmental and financial sectors, posits that a change in perceived immediacy of environmental harm, coupled with a change in communitarian attitudes, contributes to the lack of enforcement rigor.
Keywords
environmental law, environmental enforcement, communitarian ideals, climate change, environmental rights, economic disparity, individualization, cost-benefit analysis
Publication Date
2013
Document Type
Article
Publication Information
72 Maryland Law Review 1345 (2013)
Repository Citation
Flatt, Victor B., "Too Big to Jail or Too Abstract (or Rich?) to Care" (2013). Faculty Publications. 2262.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/2262
