Lectures (Video)
- 1. What is Environmental Law?
- 2. The Role of Values
- 3. Common Law Environmental Doctrines
- 4. Common Law Versus Public Law
- 5. Introduction to Standing
- 6. Standing (cont)
- 7. Judicial Review
- 8. Introduction: NEPA and the Power of Information
- 9. The Duty to Prepare an EIS
- 10. Contents of the EIS
- 11. NEPA (cont)
- 12. Risk Assessment and Management
- 13. From Risk Assessment to Regulation
- 14. Air Quality Criteria and Standards
- 15. State Implementation Plans
- 16. Grandfathering and New Source Review
- 17. Automobile Emissions and Technology Forcing
- 18. Tradeable Emission Permits
- 19. The NPDES Program
- 20. The Scope of NPDES Regulation
- 21. Effluent Standards for Point Sources
- 22. Nonpoint Source Pollution - Water Quality Standards
- 23. Introduction: Civil Enforcement
- 24. Criminal Enforcement
- 25. Citizen Suits
- 26. Historical and Theoretical Background: Cooperative Federalism
- 27. Sources and Limits of Federal Power
- 28. Preemption
Environmental Law and Policy
Course Summary
This course is based on Law 271 Environmental Law and Policy, Spring 2008 made available by University of California, Berkeley: Webcast.Berkeley under the Creative commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 license.
This introductory course is designed to explore fundamental legal and policy issues in environmental law. Through examination of environmental common law and key federal environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, and Clean Water Act, it exposes students to the major challenges to environmental law and the principal approaches to meeting those challenges, including litigation, command and control regulation, technology forcing, market incentives, and information disclosure requirements. With the addition of cross-cutting topics such as risk assessment and environmental federalism, it also gives students a grounding in how choices about regulatory standards and levels of regulatory authority are made.
Reading Material
1. Environmental Policy Law: Problems, Cases, and ReadingsDoremus, Lin, Rosenberg & Schoenbaum, Environmental Policy Law: Problems, Cases, and Readings, Foundation Press, 5 edition, 2008, ISBN: 9781599410593
