Article by Richard J. Lazarus
Katrina's overriding lesson for environmental law is no less than our environmental lawmaking institutions require fundamental reformation. Otherwise, the nation's tragic failure not only to enact laws that anticipate the obvious risks presented to the Gulf Region by hurricanes, but perversely to increase those risks by destroying the ecosystem's natural protections, will inevitably be repeated with even more devastating results.
About the Author
Richard J. Lazarus. Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center.
Citation
81 Tul. L. Rev. 1019 (2007)