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The John Marshall Law ReviewTABLE OF CONTENTSI. INTRODUCTION II. THE LAND ETHIC
III. A HISTORY OF WEED LAWS AND THE BATTLES OVER THEM IV. THE REASONS FOR AND RESPONSE TO THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE MOVEMENT
VI. WHERE TO GO FROM HERE - SUGGESTIONS FOR LOCAL WEED LAWS THAT EMBODY THE LAND ETHIC APPENDICES
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BRETT RAPPAPORTB.S., Indiana University, 1983; J.D., The John Marshall Law School, 1986; Adjunct Professor The John Marshall Law School 1989-1993. A litigation attorney with the Chicago law firm of Schwartz, Cooper, Kolb and Gaynor Chtd., Mr. Rappaport is also a member of the Sierra Club Lawyers Roundtable in Chicago. He has consulted with numerous municipalities regarding revision of weed laws and has spoken at seminars on natural landscaping. The author wishes to express his appreciation to the many people involved in the natural landscaping movement who contributed to this article including Donald Vorpahl, Chicago attorney James Romanyak, naturalist Lorrie Otto, National Wildlife Federation Urban Wildlife Director Craig Tufts, National Wildlife Federation General Counsel Joel Thomas, Program Coordinator for Treeways and Wildflowers for the United States Department of Transportation Bonnie Harper-Lore, and Wisconsin prairie-ecologist Neil Diboll. The author also wishes to thank Christine Dekker and Harvey Wright, Jr., law students at The John Marshall Law School, for their research assistance in preparing this article, Paul Gaynor, an attorney, for editing this article, and Laura Naples, Jeri Swinford and Renee Schoenrock, secretaries at Schwartz, Cooper, Kolb and Gaynor, for typing the many revisions of this article. |
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