Before Earth Day
Subtitle: the origins of American environmental law, 1945-1970
By: Karl Boyd Brooks.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780700616275
Subjects: Environmental law -- United States; Environmental law -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: To think like an environmental lawyer : making American environmental law throughout the postwar era; title: Seed-time : planting environmental law in the postwar years; title: Fertilization : environmental lawmaking in the postwar administrative state; title: Harvest home : environmental lawmaking and postwar federalism; title: The people out of doors : popularizing postwar environmental law; title: Across the new frontier : nationalizing environmental law; title: From the files of Bruce Bowler, postwar environmental lawyer; title: A field so varied and rapidly changing : American law schools discover environmental law; title: Conclusion : environmental law's unstable legacy.