Nicholas Ashford, Professor of Technology and Director of the Technology and Law Program at MIT, will discuss his new book on how environmental law cases have led to important legal, economic, and scientific developments, and how use of the law can stimulate technological change and industrial transformation. The book, Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics, is co-authored by Charles C. Caldart, Director of Litigation of the National Environmental Law Center and a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. The book is published by the MIT Press. This event is sponsored by authors@mit, a series sponsored by MIT Libraries and The MIT Press Bookstore.