by I am writing this as I watch the NCAA basketball tournament, which reminds me of the many ongoing debates about achieving level playing fields in sports, politics, and law. There is something uniquely American about the desire to ensure that our favorite pastimes are governed by rules that treat everyone equally. That is why one of the most closely watched telecasts of the college basketball season doesn’t feature any basketball at all. Instead, the nation is captivated for an hour as the 64 teams that get to play in the basketball tournament are announced. And then the fans of the teams that fancied themselves as one of the 64 but whose names were not called complain about their “unfair” exclusion from the tournament.
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I promise that not all of my posts will be this self serving, but I am pleased to report that I just received the first copy of my new book, “Law’s Environment: How the Law Shapes the Places We Live.” Yale describes it as follows:
John Copeland Nagle shows how our reliance on environmental law affects the natural environment through an examination of five diverse places in the American landscape: Alaska’s Adak Island; the Susquehanna River; Colton in California’s Inland Empire; Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the badlands of North Dakota; and Alamogordo in New Mexico. Nagle asks why some places are preserved by the law while others are not, and he finds that environmental laws often have unexpected results while other laws have surprising effects on the environment. Nagle argues that sound environmental policy requires better coordination among the many laws, regulations, and social norms that determine the values and uses of our scarce lands and waters.
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