Environmental Law is something that the USA once pioneered on and then slowly began to fall behind on. Environmental Law may not be one of the oldest type of laws but it is one of the most complex. There are laws that are then regulations that are controlled and fulfilled by an agency. There are many steps, layers and systems that make it a difficult area to comprehend and learn. On top of that the world is changing and science is evolving making changes more prevalent and seen as vital. Environmental Law after a 30-year period of slowing down, it began to pick up the pace again in the 1990s’s. It had become one of the fastest growing law practices within the USA. One of the most prefunding and true statements in this area is “environmental
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The process alone is a four step process for students that are needed to be taken to begin to get a grasp on the understanding of just the legal process. This process includes knowing where laws come from, how they work and are applied, how to interpret them and finally, how lawyers can use them to their client’s advantage. Laska believe there’s to be six different paths to understanding law. Such as statuary representation, common law, law and equity and others (Laska, 1973, pg 37). That does not even begin to include the subsections of environmental law which include all the other acts, agencies, regulations and cases. There are some many section, and subsections to understand that one could spend years on the topic and never fully learn it. Also, once it is learned it can change due to how carcinogenic environmental law …show more content…
There are the major issues such as ethics like what is more important what for the people of New York City or land for people upstate, and then scientific questions such as what is pollution. It is not cut and dry like some laws. Should it benefit the people or private companies, the government or the people, the animals/ entire earth or people. There is no easy way to judge this topic. Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) tends to be a way to try and do this but can you put a price on a person’s health or the endangerment of polar bears and
The process alone is a four step process for students that are needed to be taken to begin to get a grasp on the understanding of just the legal process. This process includes knowing where laws come from, how they work and are applied, how to interpret them and finally, how lawyers can use them to their client’s advantage. Laska believe there’s to be six different paths to understanding law. Such as statuary representation, common law, law and equity and others (Laska, 1973, pg 37). That does not even begin to include the subsections of environmental law which include all the other acts, agencies, regulations and cases. There are some many section, and subsections to understand that one could spend years on the topic and never fully learn it. Also, once it is learned it can change due to how carcinogenic environmental law …show more content…
There are the major issues such as ethics like what is more important what for the people of New York City or land for people upstate, and then scientific questions such as what is pollution. It is not cut and dry like some laws. Should it benefit the people or private companies, the government or the people, the animals/ entire earth or people. There is no easy way to judge this topic. Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) tends to be a way to try and do this but can you put a price on a person’s health or the endangerment of polar bears and