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: Legal Theory BlogSmith on the Public Trust Doctrine & the Public Good
By Lawrence Solum
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The Public Trust Doctrine, long acknowledged as an important legal tool in natural resource management, is shaped and directed by the public or common good. How inclusive or exclusive this good is acknowledged to be is determined legislatively or judicially and depends upon a complex utilitarian (cost/benefit) calculus which is underpinned by intricate socio-economic, legal, and philosophical vectors of force. A framework for determining the calculus is presented in this paper.
Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on December 10, 2009 (boomark / email).
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