Spring 2027

Environmental Law and Practice

Environmental Law and Practice surveys substantive environmental law, focusing on statutes, cases, and regulations and their application in permitting, commercial transactions, and enforcement.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Paul Kent

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2018: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.57 GPA, 57.1% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.15 GPA, 40.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Law JD

  • Declared in Law JD
LAW 989

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  • Declared in Law JD

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2018: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.57 GPA, 57.1% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.15 GPA, 40.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

PAUL KENT is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2014, Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2023, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2018: 3.50 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=2 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.57 GPA, 57.1% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.15 GPA, 40.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Environmental statutes, cases, and regulations
  • Application of environmental law in permitting, commercial transactions, and enforcement

Skills

  • Surveying substantive environmental law and its application in permitting, commercial transactions, and enforcement.

Grades

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LAW 989 · Spring 2027

Environmental Law and Practice

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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