Environmental Law

September 28, 2010 - "Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity" - Professor Kysar of Yale Law School recently presented the research from his book "Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity," offering a new approach to environmental law policies. Kysar posits that the current approach to environmental policy, engaging from an objective standpoint, is actually not the best one from which to make environmental policy. Kysar proposes that by denying the question of morality in environmental policy, the full scope of the issue and the responsibility inherent to governments is disregarded. He suggests that by utilizing precautionary principles to promote moral consciousness among a political body to enhance environmental law in order to combat potential future environmental crises. Matthew Adler, Leon Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Adam Finkel, Executive Director of Penn Program on Regulation; and Kathleen Segerson, Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut provided commentary at the event. Professor Douglas Kysar is the Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School.

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