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One third of the nation’s land base belongs to the American public and is managed by the United States Forest Service and agencies of the Department of the Interior. The federal lands provide significant wildlife habitat and clean water, and are important sources of timber, forage, and energy. They also offer opportunities for recreation. Through this course students will examine the statutes and regulations governing the management of the federal lands and their resources. Students will consider the historical, political, and ecological influences on the law and management of these resources. They will also be introduced to the agencies with jurisdiction over the components of the federal estate. MELP: Distributional requirements – Policy and Resource Management/Planning. LLM : Required. May be waived for international LL.M. candidates and other LL.M. candidates with previous coursework or experience.
Frontier Issues in Environmental Law
This seminar identifies cutting edge ecological problems and addresses the potential of science, legal regimes and public policy to tackle frontier (i.e., not yet fully discovered and appreciated) environmental concerns that threaten public welfare and the world's natural resources. From the perspective of environmental science and law, and through various media and scholarly sources, students will seek out those frontier and under-discussed environmental concerns of most interest, and suggest how we might learn from existing legal and policy regimes to better deal with these concerns.
Whether by divine right, through manifest destiny or via modern progress, humanity has saw fit to consume and expand its dominion over the earth. With this expansion and consumption, so many major environmental and public health problems face our nation and the world. How might humanity better understand and protect integrated ecosystems, as well as develop more holistic environmental and natural resource policy? This seminar mines undeveloped and overlooked areas of environmental concern for discovery of legal and policy ideas that might mitigate the damage.
Pending Curriculum Committee approval for perspective requirement.
Natural Resources Law A
One third of the nation's land base belongs to the American public and is managed by the United States Forest Service and agencies of the Department of the Interior. The federal lands provide significant wildlife habitat and clean water, and are important sources of timber, forage, and energy. They also offer opportunities for recreation.
Through this course students will examine the statutes and regulations governing the management of the federal lands and their resources. Students will consider the historical, political, and ecological influences on the law and management of these resources. They will also be introduced to the agencies with jurisdiction over the components of the federal estate.
JD/MELP Distributional Requirements: Policy, Resource Management & Planning.
LLM : Required. May be waived for international LL.M. candidates and other LL.M. candidates with previous coursework or experience.
MELP ONLY: Required.
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