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Volume 19 Number 2 Spring 2004 Article 1

April 2018

Is There a There There in Environmental Law? Is There a There There in Environmental Law?

A. Dan Tarlock Chicago-Kent College of Law

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Recommended Citation Recommended Citation Tarlock, A. Dan (2018) "Is There a There There in Environmental Law?," Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law: Vol. 19 : No. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://ir.law.fsu.edu/jluel/vol19/iss2/1

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Is There a There There in Environmental Law? Is There a There There in Environmental Law?

Cover Page Footnote Cover Page Footnote Distinguished Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law. A.B. 1962, LLB 1965, Stanford University. This article is an expanded version of the Florida State University Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law's 17th Annual Distinguished Lecture in Land Use and Environmental Law delivered at the Florida State University School of Law on October 19, 2003. The subject was triggered by the fact that every time I finish teaching an environmental law class, I know that I have taught some law but I am never sure just what kind of law it was. I would like to thank my colleagues at Chicago-Kent with whom I discussed fragments of this article, especially Christopher Leslie and Nancy Marder. I would also like to thank those in the environmental law academic community with whom I have been privileged to share the task of developing environmental law out of the whole cloth since the now mythic '60s. The ideas expressed in this article are solely mine, but they reflect the influence of some 35 years of exchanges, formal and informal, with my colleagues. Space limitations prevent me from citing all the articles and books from which I have profited greatly over the years, but the chances are high that many relevant uncited articles are sitting in my office (read and unread); I apologize for their omission. In many cases, there is no excuse except advancing age and laziness.

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