The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas: A Legacy of Place.
Hulst, Tom R. The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas: A Legacy of Place. New York: iUniverse, [2004]. xx, 289 pp. Softcover. Near fine. Author's signature to title page. Occasional pencil annotations and markings. $25. * How specific geographic wildernesses directly forged American environmental law serves as the core thesis of this study into Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas's judicial career. Rather than focusing solely on constitutional theory, the author traces Douglas's literal footsteps across the Pacific Northwest, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to explain his radical conservation jurisprudence. This geographic immersion provides crucial context for Douglas's historic dissenting opinion in Sierra Club v. Morton, wherein he argued for the legal standing of inanimate nature, an ideological shift that permanently altered twentieth-century environmental litigation and public land policy.
Price: $25.00
Book number 87162