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Professor Waterhouse Column in 'Indiana Lawyer' Addresses Lessons Gained from Flint Water Crisis
03/22/2017
Professor Carlton Waterhouse has written a column for Indiana Lawyer that considers the lessons that can be learned from the Flint, Michigan, water crisis. The piece appears in the March 8 issue of the newspaper.
“Behind the very technical laws we have in our state and across the country, there are broader goals and ends,” Professor Waterhouse writes. “When we lose sight of these, laws, like other tools, can become destructive forces that strip people of their dignity, well-being and their lives. When we think about environmental laws this is no less the case.”
Professor Waterhouse is a Dean’s Fellow and is director of the Environmental Energy and Natural Resources Law Program at IU McKinney. He is internationally recognized for his work on environmental justice and for his research and writing on reparations for historic injustices and state human rights violations.
