LAW 271 - Environmental Law and Policy (Fall)
Holly Doremus
This introductory course is designed to explore fundamental legal and policy issues in environmental law. By focusing on environmental torts and a limited number of federal statutes--principally the Clean Air Act; the Clean Water Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act; the National Environmental Policy Act; and the Endangered Species Act--the course exposes students to the principal approaches to environmental law (litigation, command and control regulation, market incentives, and providing information), as well as to the challenges of setting environmental policy goals and choosing policy targets.
This introductory course is designed to explore fundamental legal and policy issues in environmental law. By focusing on environmental torts and a limited number of federal statutes--principally the Clean Air Act; the Clean Water Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act; the National Environmental Policy Act; and the Endangered Species Act--the course exposes students to the principal approaches to environmental law (litigation, command and control regulation, market incentives, and providing information), as well as to the challenges of setting environmental policy goals and choosing policy targets.
posted by GSPP EPG at 12:52 PM
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I took this with Daniel Farber back in '04. Good survey of our basic federal enviro laws. He kept trying to inject policy themes (like performance vs. technology based regulation) but the law studdents weren't biting - they wanted to know the standards of review and case law. It's a big class for them, and so not very engaging. Also grading is different - it was basically all based on the 24-hour take home final at the end. And then it's a law-school standard of test-taking and response (correctly analysing the issue and citing relevant standards etc.) and there's no special scale for outside sstudents. i got one of my worse grades at berkeley, but luckily the law school scale doesn't translate directly (my P ("pass" grade) doesn't affect my GPA).
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