The Maine lobster fishery has been recognized as a successful example of a managed
natural resource commons. To ensure an ongoing supply of lobster in the face of threats to …

See BERNARD BARBER, SCIENCE AND THE SOCIAL ORDER 95 (1953). Because basic
research is relatively theoretical in nature, a significant period of time may elapse before …

The environment is a mess. I do not mean that the environment is polluted, or unsightly, or
ravaged by what humans have done to it. To be sure, the environment is a mess in that …

The history of environmental law provides as good of an example as any other field in
regulatory law of how successful prescriptive regulation has been at meeting public policy …

The 14 essays that make up this 2003 volume are written by leading international scholars
to provide an authoritative survey of the state of comparative legal studies. Representing …

The American legal system is often accused of being" too complex." For example, most
Americans believe the Tax Code is too complex. But what does that mean, and how would …

Does law evolve? If so, why, how, and to where? The answer to the first question seems self-
evident given real-world experience: law scarcely stands still; thus, it must be evolving. But …

Do we court disaster by stretching the bounds of judicial authority to address problems of
massive scale and complexity? Or does disaster lie in refusing to engage the jurisgenerative …

Drawing insight from a diverse array of sources--including moral philosophy, political theory,
cognitive psychology, ecology, and science and technology studies--Douglas Kysar offers a …

The widespread use of computer-based risk models in the financial industry during the last
two decades enabled the marketing of more complex financial products to consumers, the …