INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY

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 848

Overview of major environmental statutes, regulations and cases, and their implementation by regulatory agencies, as well as currently applicable common-law doctrine.

LAW 988

Topics reflect interests of instructor and students.

LAW 920

Examines the link between climate change and human rights, the pros and cons of using a human rights approach and the specific challenges that climate change poses to the international legal system such as the disappearance of states, displacement and mass movement of people, and adjudication. Discuss the plight of vulnerable populations especially, indigenous peoples, women, and climate "refugees" within a human rights framework.

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.