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
Clinical Requirement
No
Certificate(s)
Environmental Law
Category
Environmental, Land Use, and Ocean Law
Semesters Offered
Class | Instructor(s) | Term | Year |
---|---|---|---|
View class page | Richard Wallsgrove '08 |
Fall
|
2020 |
View class page | Richard Wallsgrove '08 |
Fall
|
2019 |
View class page | Richard Wallsgrove '08 |
Spring
|
2018 |
View class page |
Spring
|
2016 | |
View class page | Denise E. Antolini |
Summer
|
2016 |
View class page | Antonio A. Oposa, Jr. |
Spring
|
2015 |