Looking back to move forward: resolving health & environmental crises

Publisher:: Environmental Law Institute
Publication date:: 2020-10-11

Authors:: Hampden T. Macbeth
ISBN:: 978-1-58576-227-9

Description:

About the Book: The U.S. legal system was built to address predictable health and environmental injuries, but it can seize up when health or environmental crises combine legally confounding fact patterns with huge humanitarian and financial...

Preliminary sections
Acknowledgments
Contributing Authors
Synthesizing Lessons Learned From Seven Major Crises

Section I

Diethylstilbestrol and the Birth of Market-Share Liability
A Complex Achievement: The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
Response to Vaccine Immunity: The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and Its Consequences
Courts as Policymakers: The Uneven Justice of Asbestos Mass Tort Litigation

Section II

Superfund at 40: Unfulfilled Expectations
Deepwater Horizon
The Volkswagen 'Dieselgate' Clean Air Act Settlement