Environmental Law and Regulation from a Legal Scholar’s Perspective – Essay

Assessment

1. Book Review/Film Review/Case Note . Deadline: April 10, 5 pm.

The idea behind the review is to adopt the critical lenses of a legal scholar in examining an environmental or regulatory subject. The subject could have an academic or non-academic flavour. So it would be fine to opt to review a non-fiction book/case/report by an organisation on an environmental issue or even highlight how environmental issues are ignored in an authoritative publication. Students may also review fiction, but then the review must tease out what the author is trying to say (or has the luxury to avoid saying) about a non-fiction world.

Around 2500 – 3000 words would be great.

It is likely that a book you’re interested in reviewing would be available in the library.

I would, however, recommend students to purchase the subject of review. If you intimately read a work, it is good to have this item in your collection. If you find that placing an order for a book online is cumbersome, you could review an article or a case.

Indicative List of Items for Review

1) Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency

2) Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

3) Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action

4) Thomas Nagel, What is it like to be a bat?

5) JM Coetzee, The Lives of Animals

6) Arundhati Roy, The Greater Common Good

7) Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything

8) Deepwater Horizon: The Movie + choose a book on the oil spill from

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/04/gulf-oil-spill-reduxnine-books-on-the-bp-disaster.html

9) Dark Waters: The Movie + New York Times article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who becameduponts-worst-nightmare.html

10) Cass Sunstein, Worst-case Scenarios

11) Cass Sunstein, Risk and Reason

12) Barbara Freese, Coal: A human history

13) An Inconvenient Truth v. The Great Global Warming Swindle (Contrasting Documentaries)

14) Nigel Lawson, An Appeal to Reason

15) David Montgomery, Dirt

16) Liam Leonard, Green Nation: The Irish Environmental Movement

17) David Lochbaum et al, Fukushima: The story of an environmental disaster

18) Ian McEwan, Solar

19) Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling, Priceless

20) Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital

21) Michael J. Bannon, The Emergence of Irish Planning

22) Jack Ewing, Faster, Higher, Farther: The inside story of the Volkswagen scandal

23) Naomi Klein, On Fire

24) Extinction Rebellion, This is Not a Drill

Please note that the above is an indicative list. You are free to choose a book/film/case of your choice. Do consult with me if you have any questions on the book or film selected.