Law and Environment: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Explores environmental studies through law and legal history, focusing on U.S. environmental law while beginning and ending with broader historical and global perspectives.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.25 GPA, 61.1% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.36 GPA, 55.6% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.53 GPA, 73.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Analyze and articulate their own arguments about how social, political, and cultural phenomena shape law and legal systems.
Analyze and articulate their own arguments about the social, political, and cultural impacts of law at the societal and individual levels.
Demonstrate knowledge about how legal ideas and ideologies have changed over time and have shaped law and legal systems.
Demonstrate their abilities to find, interpret, and utilize resources relevant to law and society.
Demonstrate their abilities to analyze information, to write clearly and persuasively, and to construct original arguments.
Analyze the causes of and solutions for the sustainability challenge of the conservation of natural resources, especially insofar as their governance involves and impacts local stakeholders.
Analyze the social, economic, legal, political, and environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge of regulating and governing biodiversity, clean air and water, and other, larger earth systems (such as climate).
Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the historiography or other scholarly debates that have shaped the study of conservation and environmental law.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2· UW Guide 3
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Prerequisites
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- Sophomore standing
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.25 GPA, 61.1% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.36 GPA, 55.6% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.53 GPA, 73.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).
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Topics
- English, European, and early American legal approaches to land use, natural resources, and pollution through World War II.
- Development and practice of contemporary U.S. environmental law and the recent emergence of international environmental law.
Skills
- Analyzing information, writing clearly and persuasively, and constructing original arguments.
- Understanding historiography and scholarly debates in conservation and environmental law.
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