Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy

Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy

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  • 6 序列
  • 等级 介绍
  • 从20 一月 2019开始
  • 以5 三月 2019结束

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教学大纲

  • Week 1 - Common-Law Approaches to Environmental Problems
    As the course does not presume any previous knowledge of the law or legal experience, it begins by teaching students how to “read” cases, to learn from judicial opinions in real-life disputes how judges articulate and apply legal principles. We focus on the la...
  • Week 2 - Property and the Environment
    It’s impossible to understand environmental law without also understanding the important role that private property plays in people’s lives and the way in which property law recognizes these values. After using two cases involving property rights to water to i...
  • Week 3 - Two Famous Statutory Programs: Environmental Impact Analysis and Endangered-Species Protection
    This week we start with perhaps the most influential American environmental statute ever enacted, the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA"), and its requirement for environmental impact analysis of certain actions that might significantly affect the envir...
  • Week 4 - Risk Analysis and Toxic Substances: Pesticides, Trade Disputes over Synthetic Hormones, and the Cleanup of Contaminated Sites
    This week we shift from land-use-related issues to the central role that “risk” plays in the regulation of toxic substances, pollution-control, and environmental law generally. We begin with an analysis of a regulatory decision involving 2,4,5-T, the active in...
  • Week 5 - Environmental Justice, Water Pollution, Claims to a Human Right to Drinking Water, Fracking, and Insights from an Economic Model of Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness
    This week, we pivot mostly into issues involving fresh water and water pollution, but not before continuing our discussion of risk distribution by exploring further the concept of environmental justice. We start with legal approaches to transboundary shipments...
  • Week 6 - Pollution, Climate Change and Course Conclusion
    This week, we continue discussing aspects of water-quality regulation, including especially elements other than the technology-based systems in the American Clean Water Act. We then shift to air-pollution control, not only introducing the environmental-quality...
  • Week 6 - (Optional) Research Exercise
    This module is optional.

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讲师

Donald Hornstein
Aubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is known around the world for innovative teaching and research. Regularly ranked as the nation’s best value for academic quality, UNC has produced the most Rhodes Scholars for the past 25 years among U.S. public research universities.

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