Abstract
I want to talk to you today about individual rights and community. I have been struck in reading the Judge’s books and recalling working with him how he honored two competing ideas simultaneously: respect for individual liberty, and a deep belief in the power of government to enhance fairness and promote public well-being. As I shall explain, the tension between those ideas has become increasingly important in the debate over how to address global environmental problems.
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Recommended Citation
Jonathan Lash,
Nineteenth Annual Frank M. Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service: Community, Rights, and Climate: A Challenge to a Clever Species,
64
Me. L. Rev.
239
(2011).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.mainelaw.maine.edu/mlr/vol64/iss1/9