Alabama Water-Resources Law is first truly comprehensive study examining the structure and shortcomings of Alabama’s water law. This prodigious treatise provides a necessary tool to help the state and its people understand and prepare for the wise use of its water resources. Part I provides a clear and critical statement of Alabama’s current water law in eleven chapters. Part II expands on the criticisms of existing Alabama law, recounts the history of previous efforts at addressing those criticisms, and makes recommendations for change, taking lessons from other southeastern states.

This is a must-read for all Alabama policy-makers, attorneys, and concerned citizens to answer water-law questions and to make proactive laws to bring Alabama into twenty-first-century practices.

Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society.