
Lecture Description
- The CosmoLearning Team
Course Index
- What is Environmental Law?
- The Role of Values
- Common Law Environmental Doctrines
- Common Law Versus Public Law
- Introduction to Standing
- Standing (cont.)
- Judical Review
- Introduction: NEPA and the Power of Information
- The Duty to Prepare an EIS
- Contents of the EIS - Evaluationg NEPA: Other Information Based Strategies
- NEPA Continued
- Risk Assessment and Management
- From Risk Assessment to Regulation
- Air Quality Criteria and Standards
- State Implementation Plans
- Make-up session: Grandfathering and New Source Review
- Automobile Emissions and Technology Forcing
- Tradeable Emission Permits
- Introduction and Overview: The NPDES Program
- The Scope of NPDES Regulation (cont.)
Course Description
In this course, Professor Holly Doremus gives 20 video lectures on the concepts of Environmental Law and Policy. 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.
The original name for this course is: Law 271 Environmental Law and Policy.