Boston College Law Professor Zygmunt Plater presented a TEDx Talk on his new book, THE SNAIL DARTER & THE DAM: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River (Yale University Press). The Supreme Court case—a classic David and Goliath scenario—was an ingenious, but doomed, attempt to save a Tennessee way of life.
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Boston College Law Professor Zygmunt Plater presented a TEDx Talk on his new book, THE SNAIL DARTER & THE DAM: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River (Yale University Press). The Supreme Court case—a classic David and Goliath scenario—was an ingenious, but doomed, attempt to save a Tennessee way of life.
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