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WATER POLICYMAKING BY THE COURTS IN NEBRASKA
Abstract
Academics and policymakers are fond of discussing how water policy ought to be made. Barring some extraordinary change in the American political process, however, the models aiming at comprehensive plans achieved after widespread public participation are unlikely to be put in place. Therefore, it would seem reasonable for all parties to concentrate on the existing system. This project presents a more realistic picture of the Nebraska water policy process and the judicial process as a whole. Nebraska water policy is the product of the judicialization of water policy. Water legislation is only the beginning, and not the end of policymaking. I will show that the final determination by the Nebraska court system on water policy varies greatly from the Nebraska district courts to the Nebraska Supreme Court. These differences illuminate the Nebraska water process and have implications for the entire judicial process.
Subject Area
Law
Recommended Citation
LONGO, PETER JOSEPH, "WATER POLICYMAKING BY THE COURTS IN NEBRASKA" (1986). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8614460.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8614460