Tag: Environmental law

  • Nation & World

    Public lands ‘a priceless legacy’ for future

    Public lands owned and managed by the federal government are not a land grab, as some activists claim, but rather the result of a practice that goes back to the nation’s founding, a former Interior Department official says.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Clean Power Plan’s legal future ‘a mess’

    The future of the President Obama’s Clean Power Plan hangs in the balance with the Supreme Court vote to freeze the plan in place, halting implementation while legal issues are decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and, likely, by the Supreme Court itself.

    13 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Land-use law pioneer, Charles M. Haar, 91

    Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Emeritus Charles M. Haar ’48, a pioneer in land-use law whose scholarship focused on laws and institutions of city planning, urban development, and environmental issues, died on Jan. 10.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Richard Lazarus named professor of law

    Richard J. Lazarus, J.D. ’79, one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental law and also a leading practitioner in the U.S. Supreme Court, will join the Harvard Law School faculty this summer as a tenured professor of law.

    1 minute