Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States
This book, published in March 2019 by the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C., was edited by Professors Michael Gerrard of Columbia Law School and and John Dernbach. It identifies and analyzes more than a thousand legal tools that the federal government, state and local governments, and the private sector can employ to reduce greenhouse…
Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States: Summary and Key Recommendations
This book is a shorter version of a much longer book, Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States (Michael B. Gerrard & John C. Dernbach eds. 2019), which has 1,500 recommendations for the federal government, state and local governments, and the private sector to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80%…
Shale Gas and the Future of Energy: Law and Policy for Sustainability
The rapid growth of shale gas development has led to an intense and polarizing debate about its merits. This book asks and suggests answers to a question that has not yet been systematically analyzed: what laws and policies are needed to ensure that shale gas development helps to accelerate the transition to sustainability? In this…
A Practical Introduction to Environmental Law
This casebook, by Joel A. Mintz, John Dernbach, Steve C. Gold, Kalyani Robbins, Clifford Villa, and Wendy Wagner, is designed to be used in upper level courses by law students with little or no prior familiarity with environmental law. It includes chapters on permitting, the philosophical underpinnings of the field, climate change, and the recently…
Writing Essay Exams to Succeed in Law School (Not Just to Survive)
This short book provides a basic explanation of how to write an essay exam in law school, with many examples. It also contains two sample exam questions with three different answers for each, and explains the strengths and weaknesses of each of the different answers. For many students, this book is game changing. It has…
A Practical Guide to Legal Writing and Legal Method
A Practical Guide to Legal Writing and Legal Method (6th ed., with Richard V. Singleton, Cathleen S. Wharton, Catherine J. Wasson, and Joan M. Ruhtenberg) is a text that provides complete coverage of basic legal writing and analysis. Starting with a straightforward introduction to law and legal method, and proceeding to the basics of writing…
Acting as if Tomorrow Matters
Acting as If Tomorrow Matters explains in detail how to make a greater variety of more sustainable decisions even more attractive, how law can provide an even better enabling environment for sustainability, and how public opinion and leadership can be more effectively engaged to support…
Agenda for a Sustainable America
Published in 2009, Agenda for a Sustainable America is a wide-ranging assessment of U.S. progress toward sustainable development since the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. It also contains recommendations for the next five to ten years. Agenda is both a policy analysis and a set of practical recommendations that citizens…
Stumbling Toward Sustainability
Stumbling Toward Sustainability, which was published in 2002, assessed sustainable development efforts over the ten years following the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, or Earth Summit. The book also contained detailed recommended actions for the next five to ten years. It was the only comprehensive assessment of U.S. sustainable development efforts by…
Legal Drafting
This text, authored by Susan L. Brody, Jane Rutherford, Laurel A. Vietzen, and John C. Dernbach, presents a classroom-tested process for legal drafting, enabling students to move beyond merely filling in the blanks to create the customized documents clients need. The book’s seven chapters cover an introduction to legal drafting, the process of legal drafting…