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The Heroic Narratives of Environmental Law

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doi:10.2139/ssrn.7538181
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Dave
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2026
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University of California Hastings College of the Law · University of San Francisco

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Documentary abstract — original language

Recent years have brought vigorous attacks on environmental law. Those attacks include complaints from regulated industries, which are nothing new. But they also include arguments from self-styled progressives that environmental law is overly cumbersome and from environmental activists who contend that creative legal initiatives like atmospheric trust litigation, constitutional environmental claims, or rights-of-nature laws offer more hope than the supposedly failed measures of traditional environmental law. This essay argues that these attacks flow from environmental law's heroic narratives, which tend to celebrate bold litigants and groundbreaking legal claims. Those narratives are compelling--often inspiring--but they also leave environmental law vulnerable to misunderstanding, and they can distract attention from the many ways in which traditional environmental law has been profoundly successful.

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Dave. The Heroic Narratives of Environmental Law. 2026. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7538181

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OpenAlex · source · 2026-11-09T19:05:41.922008+00:00
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OpenAlex · source · 2026-11-09T19:05:41.922008+00:00
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University of California Hastings College of the Law

University of San Francisco

Dave

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