Teaching Environmental Law in Context

Author: Rebecca Bratspies; Carmen G. Gonzalez
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035333899
Published In: April 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This highly-informative book provides tools and guidance for teaching environmental law in a time of turmoil. Rebecca Bratspies and Carmen Gonzalez clarify key, often unexplored, first principles behind environmental regulation, enabling teachers to confidently navigate the material and enhance their expertise.

The authors trace the crucial history of each major federal environmental statute and provide an accessible overview of each statute’s major provisions. By integrating a statute’s social and political context with its regulatory structure, they demonstrate how to incorporate environmental justice throughout a course and help students understand the life-and-death stakes behind seemingly technical regulatory choices. Each chapter includes practical teaching exercises that integrate history, justice, science, and law into classroom learning. Above all, Bratspies and Gonzalez offer numerous practical examples. Each chapter is full of teaching tips and problems designed to start hard, interesting conversations, allowing students to master technical materials while grappling with social justice implications.

Teaching Environmental Law in Context is an essential read for educators interested in bringing environmental justice into their classrooms or developing comparative and interdisciplinary courses in environmental law and policy. It is a valuable reference for government officials and activists looking to gain insight into environmental advocacy strategies. Scholars and students seeking concise summaries of foundational topics in environmental law will also find this book relevant.

List of teaching exercises

Supplementary materials

Introduction: teaching environmental law in context

From common law to legislation and back again

Quantitative risk assessment

Cost-benefit analysis

The regulation of toxic chemicals

Environmental impact assessment: NEPA and SEPAs

Water is life—part 1: the Clean Water Act

Water is life—part 2: the Safe Drinking Water Act

Teaching the Clean Air Act

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