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The latest work from Kimberly Smith explores the history of why American law schools were resistant to teaching about climate change and how that changed over the course of a forty-year period, resulting in law schools across the country incorporating climate change into their curricula, with many even establishing centers on the environment. Based on dozens of interviews with faculty and students, Making Climate Lawyers fills a gap in the lit...

Governing Animals explores the role of the liberal state in protecting animal welfare. Examining liberal concepts such as the social contract, property rights, and representation, Kimberly K. Smith argues that liberalism properly understood can recognize the moral status and social meaning of animals and provides guidance in fashioning animal policy.

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Over the course of the twentieth century, the United States emerged as a global leader in conservation policy. And yet, this is a country famously committed to the ideals of limited government. How these contradictory values have been reconciled is what Kimberly Smith sets out to explain in The Conservation Constitution.

In this work of historically informed political theory, Kimberly Smith sets out to understand how nineteenth-century Americans answered the question of how the people should participate in politics. Did rational public debate, the ideal that most democratic theorists now venerate, transcend all other forms of political expression? How and why did passion disappear from the ideology (if not the practice) of American democracy? To answer these q...

Farmer and conservationist Wendell Berry has published more than thirty books, making his name a household word among environmentalists. He preaches and practises stewardship of the land as he seeks to defend the value and traditions of farm life in an industrial capitalist society. Berry has tirelessly reminded readers that sustainable agriculture is more than a catchphrase. Here Kimberly Smith reveals the depth of his ideas and their relevan...

Links African American and environmental studies to show that black Americans have been far from indifferent to environmental concerns. This book examines the works of such canonical figures as Frederick Douglass, Booker Washington, and others, who wrote about how slavery and racial oppression affected black Americans' relationship to environment.

Farmer and conservationist Wendell Berry has published more than thirty books, making his name a household word among environmentalists. From his Kentucky farm, Berry preaches and practices stewardship of the land as he seeks to defend the value and traditions of farm life in an industrial capitalist society. A central figure in the greening of American agrarianism, Berry has been an advocate of small farming and traditional values who has tir...