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CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS SEMINAR (CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - 1010)
2 credits
This seminar explores current important areas of constitutional law, with particular attention to the judicial protection of individual rights, including free speech, free press, religious freedom, privacy and gender-based discrimination. The seminar format permits analysis of these topics of expanding interest in greater depth than in the basic course. The areas discussed may vary somewhat in emphasis from one semester to another, depending in part on current decisions of the courts and in part on students' choices in selecting topics for their papers. Each student will prepare a paper of law review quality on a topic approved by the faculty member conducting the seminar. Grades are based upon a paper and course participation.
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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (ENVIRONMENTAL LAW - 1000)
3 credits
This course covers the effective legal responses to current environmental problems, including air and water quality, noise, toxic substances, solid and hazardous waste and nuclear hazards. It also focuses on environmental considerations in the use of land, protection of parks, wetlands and historic buildings, and energy conservation in electricity, heating and transportation. Common law, administrative and statutory remedies, federal and state, are discussed. Grades are based upon a final examination.
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INTERNAT'L ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (ENVIRONMENTAL LAW - 1030)
2 credits
This course surveys the leading legal instruments and approaches to dealing with regional and global environmental problems. It will address transboundary air and water pollution, mass catastrophes, protection and allocation of freshwater supplies, stewardship of ocean resources such as fisheries, protection of the atmosphere (including the ozone layer and climate change), transport and trade in hazardous chemicals and waste, and biodiversity. The course will explore the environmental side of new approaches to economic regulation, including the world trade regime, and emerging ideas about sustainable development. Grades are based upon a final examination.