Environmental Law and Policy

Environmental law is critically important, endlessly fascinating, and highly intertwined with many of today's top legal and policy challenges, including addressing legacy pollution, climate change, siting and permitting energy and other large infrastructure projects, and the sustainable management of our natural resources. This course, open to law school students and graduate students from other schools, will provide a survey of major federal and state environmental laws and policies, including how they are structured, implemented, and enforced; how they intersect with adjacent administrative, constitutional and other statutory frameworks; how effectively (or not) they address today's top environment challenges; and how different governmental branches, regulated industry, non-profit advocacy groups, and private citizens have shaped--and continue to shape--U.S. environmental law and policy. Elements used in grading: Attendance, Class Participation, Exam.