Environmental & Energy,
Constitutional Law
Jul. 23, 2019
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and climate change
The Supreme Court justice, who passed away last week, was breaking new ground while staying true to legal principle
Daniel A. Farber
Professor
UC Berkeley School of Law
Daniel is the Sho Sato professor of law and co-director of the Center on Law, Energy, and the Environment at UC Berkeley
In his decades on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote hundreds of majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions. Rather than trying to somehow condense the complexities of Justice Stevens's legal thought into a few hundred words, I thought it would be more meaningful to take a deeper dive into one of his most important decisions.
Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007), was a histori...
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