This Essay suggests that policy responses in climate change adaptation must be addressed and that focusing on adapting laws may be a good way to undertake this work. Following a review of existing scholarship and normative theories concerning law generally, environmental law, climate change, and...

Because of the failure to pass comprehensive climate change legislation, United States federal actions on climate change adaptation have been focused in the executive branch. An examination of these policies reveal that they are accomplishing some policy goals but that the key elements of...