INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

LAW 989

Presents environmental statutes, cases, and regulations, and discusses their implementation. Focuses on both law and practice. Provides a survey of substantive environmental law and their application in permitting, commercial transactions and enforcement.

LAW 988

Topics reflect interests of instructor and students.

LAW 921

Discussion of the root causes of global environmental problems, the international legal framework and principles, and the role of sustainable development in addressing these environmental issues. Discussion of specific international environmental legal regimes such as biodiversity, movement of hazardous waste, climate change and international trade as well as governance mechanisms, the role of non-state actors and dispute resolution.

ENVIRST/HISTORY/LEGALST 430

Explores environmental studies through a focus on law and legal history. Although its main concentration is on U.S. environmental law, the course will begin and end with broader historical and global perspectives. Topics include a survey of English, European, and early American legal approaches to land use, natural resources, and pollution through World War II as well as an examination of the development and practice of contemporary U.S. environmental law and consideration of the recent emergence of international environmental law.

ENVIRST/GEOG 439

Covers a broad cross-section of American environmental policy by focusing on specific statutes and policy arenas. Surveys the basic elements of American environmental policy and regulation with a particular focus on the specific people, sites and scales at which environmental decision-making happens through primary-source case material. Maintains a dual focus on (a) the legal and regulatory aspects of environmental regulation and (b) the specific geographic and social features of actual cases in which regulations and policy are used. Understanding environmental outcomes in a complex society depends on observing both the structure of regulations and the geographic and social context in which such regulations emerge.