Environmental Law: Policy - Fall 2012 (79453) | William S. Richardson School of Law
527E
LWEV
Clean Energy and Climate Change Law and Policy

Law School Description

This course focuses on specific topic areas that will vary from year to year, depending upon current developments and issues in environmental law in Hawaiʻi, nationwide, and internationally, as well as the expertise of visiting faculty. Topics in the past have included Hawaiʻi environmental law, environmental law and the military, wildlife law, and toxic waste issues.

UH Mānoa Catalog Description

Study of contemporary topics in environmental law to change periodically as to issues and topics. (B) advanced environmental law; (C) regulatory; (D) legislature; (E) policy; (F) judicial. Repeatable six times.

Notes

This is a unique class as we are truly studying law-in-the-making. Climate change has become a core challenge that will continue to influence law and policy for years to come. Continued development of renewable energy and energy efficiency--or "clean energy"--will remain important to reduce climate change’s impacts as well as for economic and energy security reasons. Both clean energy law and climate change law raise classic issues of distributional justice, law and science, risk, uncertainty and precaution, litigation strategy, regulatory and technology policy, and international relations. This seminar will provide an overview of the emerging law and policy on climate change and clean energy. Students will leave this course with an understanding of the sources and impacts of climate change, the key state, national, and international policies, and the role of law in helping or hindering our responses to a changing climate.

Credit(s) for this CRN

2

Instructor Approval

No

Competition

No

Bar Course

No

Clinical Requirement

No

Certificate(s)

Environmental Law

Category

Environmental, Land Use, and Ocean Law

Instructor(s)

Office Hours

By appointment only

Class Schedule

M
1:30pm - 3:10pm

Classroom

Room 254

Course Reference Number

79453
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