Environmental law has long been viewed as a public law field, with policymakers and practitioners conditioned to look to government for solutions to environmental problems, but private governance is playing an increasingly important role. Will private environmental governance become a mainstay...

The environmental issues, policy plasticity, and regulatory instruments that shaped the early decades of environmental law are no longer dominant. Climate change has the potential to dwarf the issues that sparked the environmental movement, the worldviews and coalitions that enabled enactment of...