Peter Cleary Yeager

The Limits of Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of the development of US water pollution laws, showing how legal processes and social relations interact as the state struggles to reconcile contradictory responsibilities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 775g
• ISBN-13: 9780521365352
• ISBN-10: 052136535X
• Artikelnr.: 35450451

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The social production of business offenses
2. Bringing the law back in: an integrated approach
3. The politics of water: pollution policies to 1970
4. Contradiction and change: environmental consciousness and the mobilization of law
5. Legislating clean water: changing conceptions of environmental rights
6. Controls and constraints: from law to regulation
7. Enforcement: the social production of environmental offenses
Conclusions.