Practicing Environmental Law - 3rd Edition - Todd Aagaard

Practicing Environmental Law 3rd Edition ISBN 9798887869841

This title utilizes the CasebookPlus™ platform. Learn more at Faculty-CasebookPlus.com.

Practicing Environmental Law brings the dynamic and often provocative challenges of environmental legal practice into the classroom. While covering the traditional subject matter of an environmental law course, the book takes a distinctly practice-oriented approach. Each chapter is built around case study-style problems that require students to analyze and address real-world environmental issues using a variety of supporting materials.

Throughout the course, students engage in a wide range of exercises, including developing an environmental justice advocacy strategy, evaluating novel Clean Air Act litigation to combat climate change, considering whether fireworks displays qualify as point sources under the Clean Water Act, assessing NEPA compliance for a proposed utility line, negotiating enforcement settlements, and shaping the contents of a landscape-scale habitat conservation plan.

To solve these problems, students review and apply affidavits, administrative orders, guidance documents, biological opinions, white papers, letters, and other common practice materials—alongside key statutes, regulations, and judicial opinions. In doing so, they simulate the tasks environmental attorneys perform in practice. The casebook, together with faculty-authored online self-assessment quizzes, helps students master foundational legal concepts while cultivating a deeper understanding of, and enthusiasm for, environmental law.

The Third Edition includes several significant updates:

• Analysis of recent Supreme Court decisions, including West Virginia v. EPA, Sackett v. EPA, and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
• A new capstone CERCLA project focused on cleanups within the Navajo Nation
• A new problem exploring consultation under the Endangered Species Act
• Revisions that refine and streamline existing materials throughout the book

Practicing Environmental Law continues to be offered through the CasebookPlus™ platform. Anchored by faculty-authored self-assessments, CasebookPlus allows students to test their understanding of core concepts in real time with quizzes aligned to each chapter, broader subject-area reviews, and detailed explanations.

For a more comprehensive description of the updates in this edition, please refer to pages 3–6 of the Third Edition Teacher’s Manual.

Aagaard, Owen and Pidot Practicing Environmental Law Third Edition ISBN 9798887869841 & 979-8887869841