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About the Course
Environmental law may be the one institution standing between us and planetary exhaustion. It is also an institution that needs to be reconciled with human liberty and economic aspirations. This course considers these issues and provides a tour though existing legal regimes governing pollution, water law, endangered species, toxic substances, environmental impact analyses, and environmental risk.
Syllabus
- Common-Law Approaches to Environmental Problems
- Property and the Environment
- Two Famous Statutory Programs: Environmental Impact Analysis and Endangered-Species Protection
- Risk Analysis and Toxic Substances: Pesticides, Trade Disputes over Synthetic Hormones, and the Cleanup of Contaminated Sites
- Environmental Justice, Water Pollution, Claims to a Human Right to Drinking Water, Fracking, and Insights from an Economic Model of Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness
- Pollution, Climate Change and Course Conclusion
- (Optional) Research Exercise
Instructor
Donald Hornstein Aubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law
To enroll in this course, click the link below.
Course on Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy
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