Comparative Asian Environmental Law Anthology.

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COMPARATIVE ASIAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ANTHOLOGY

Alexander J. Bolla & Ted L. McDorman. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2000. (919) 489-7486. 557 pp.

This anthology presents readings on environmental law and policy that helps focus the reader on the deep legal heritage, culture, and traditions of selected Asian nations, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, and the nations of Southeast Asia The anthology also includes the United States for a comparative study, and to represent a benchmark nation from which many other's have borrowed. The readings begin with materials foundational to comparative law as a discipline, and end with current discussions on trade and the environment. The anthology attempts to highlight the influences of Western legal culture on indigenous approaches used by Asian nations struggling to sustain, govern, and responsibly use the environment.

Alexander J. Bolla is a Professor of Law at Cumberland School of Law of Stamford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He teaches contracts, computer law, business and document drafting, comparative Asian systems, international trade, admiralty and maritime law. Mr. Bolla is currently the Chair-Elect of the American Association of Law Schools section on Maritime Law. Ted L. McDorman is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia Mr. McDorman, Editor-in-Chief of Ocean Development and International Law: the Journal of Marine Affairs, has written extensively in the areas of international ocean law and policy, international trade law, and Asian law.

OCEAN'S END: TRAVELS THROUGH ENDANGERED SEAS

Colin Woodard. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000. (800) 386-5656. 300 pp.$26.00 Clothbound.

The Ocean's End is an eyewitness account of the state of the world's oceans and a subsequent call to action. The author spent over a year and a half sailing the world's oceans and now tells of his interactions with fishermen and scientists, officials and activists, dicers and sailors, as well as religious missionaries and government ministers whose lives are spent confronting the ocean's problems.

Colin Woodard is a journalist specializing in global affairs and is a regular contributor TO the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

THE REDWOOD FORREST: HISTORY, ECOLOGY, AND CONSERVATION OF THE COAST REDWOODS

Reed F. Noss ed. Washington, DC: Island...