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  • Making Climate Lawyers

    Climate Change in American Law Schools, 1985-2020

    Series series Environment and Society
    Why did it take so long for American law schools to start teaching about climate change? Although most environmental law professors were aware of climate change by 1990, it took nearly fifteen years for them to incorporate the topic into their curriculum. In her innovative new work, Kimberly K. Smith explores how American environmental law professors have addressed climate change, identifying the ... Leer más

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  • The Dominion of Voice

    Riot, Reason, and Romance in Antebellum Politics

    Winner: Merle Curti Intellectual History AwardIn this work of historically informed political theory, Kimberly Smith sets out to understand how nineteenth-century Americans answered the question of how the people should participate in politics. Did rational public debate, the ideal that most democratic theorists now venerate, transcend all other forms of political expression? How and why did ... Leer más

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  • African American Environmental Thought

    Foundations

    Series series American Political Thought
    Choice Outstanding BookAfrican American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil rights, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our relationship to nature. In this first single-authored book to link African American and environmental studies, Smith uncovers a rich tradition stretching from the abolition movement through the Harlem ... Leer más

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  • The Conservation Constitution

    The Conservation Movement and Constitutional Change, 1870–1930

    Series series Environment and Society
    Winner: Lynton Keith Caldwell AwardWinner: Charles A. Weyerhaeuser AwardOver the course of the twentieth century, the United States emerged as a global leader in conservation policy—negotiating the first international conservation treaties, pioneering the idea of the national park, and leading the world in creating a modern environmental regulatory regime. And yet, this is a country famously ... Leer más

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  • Exploring Environmental Ethics

    An Introduction

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is designed as a basic text for courses that are part of an interdisciplinary program in environmental studies. The intended reader is anyone who expects environmental stewardship to be an important part of his or her life, as a citizen, a policy maker, or an environmental management professional. In addition to discussing major issues in environmental ethics, it invites readers to think ... Leer más

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  • Governing Animals

    Animal Welfare and the Liberal State

    What is the role of government in protecting animal welfare? What principles should policy makers draw on as they try to balance animal welfare against human liberty? Much has been written in recent years on our moral duties towards animals, but scholars and activists alike have neglected the important question of how far the state may go to enforce those duties. Kimberly K. Smith fills that gap ... Leer más

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  • The Idea of America

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  • Teaching to Transgress

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