Courses

    This course surveys federal environmental law. The first part of the course considers the character of environmental disputes, the problems inherent in fashioning legal rules for their resolution, including common law doctrine, statutes, and administrative regulations. The second part of the course considers in more detail five different federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.