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16 J. Legal Stud. Educ. 1 (1998)

handle is hein.journals/jlse16 and id is 1 raw text is: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW IN CONTEXT: INTEGRATING ETHICS, ECONOMICS, AND THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION by Don Mayer* INTRODUCTION Teaching environmental law in a legal environment of business class presents the familiar problem of depth versus breadth. Most legal environment textbooks present a series of federal statutes and related cases on clean air, clean water, and hazardous waste, often with a passing nod to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act. Unless other legal environment topics are jettisoned (such as consumer protection, securities law, antitrust law, or employment law), you must cover environmental law in two to four class hours. If so, you might consider an approach described below that opts for depth rather than breadth, integrating economics, ethics, and international law. This approach strives for students to gain understanding as to why some form of regulation will tend to be more efficient and more fair than a laissez-faire legal environment. This article recommends using one common law case, Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co.,' to illustrate the limitations of common law and thus demonstrate the necessity for some form of regulation. Careful study of Boomer can lead students through a variety of legal issues that speak directly to ethical and economic considerations. The concepts of externalities and economic efficiencies can be made plain through Boomer, as well as ethical concepts such as utilitarianism, rights, and * Associate Professor of Management, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. 257 N.E.2d 870 (N.Y. 1970). The Court of Appeals is New York's highest court, similar to most states' Supreme Court.

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