education: environmental law for scientists
spring 2005
Tuesdays and Thursdays 11-12:15, Ecology Seminar Room
Laurie Fowler, Professor
Room 23, Ecology
583-0463 (w)
613-0181 (h)
lfowler@uga.edu |
Emily Franzen,
Legal Fellow
583-0282 (w)
emilyf@uga.edu |
Tim Carter, Graduate assistant
583.0463
tlcarter@uga.edu |
Course Objectives:
To introduce scientists and design professionals
to basic legal concepts and statutory principles of environmental law
with a focus on pollution control and prevention.
To provide an opportunity for applying these concepts
and principles through a service project.
Text:
Environmental Law: Examples and Explanations, 3rd
Edition by Steven Ferrey, Aspen Law and
Business, 2004.
Additional reading handouts will be assigned topically throughout the
course.
Supplemental Texts:
Foundations of Environmental Law and Policy
by Richard L. Revesz, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Understanding Environmental Administration
and Law by Susan Buck, Island Press,
1996.
Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law and
Society by Zygmunt J. B. Plater, Robert
H. Abrams, William Goldfarb and Robert L. Graham, West Group, 1998.
Environmental Regulation: Law, Science and
Policy by Robert V. Percival, Alan S.
Miller, Christopher H. Schroeder, and James P. Leape, Aspen Law and
Business, 2000.
Federal Environmental Law: The Users Guide,
2nd edition by Olga L. Moya and Andrew
L. Fono, West Group, 2001.
Grading:
| Exam 1 |
30% |
| Exam 2 |
30% |
| Service project |
30% |
| Class participation |
10% |
Class Schedule (subject to change):
| Date |
Topics |
| Part I |
Legal Framework |
| Tue 1/11 |
Structure of the law and history/concept of environmental and
natural resources regulation
|
| Thu 1/13 |
Research skills |
| Tue 1/18 |
Tools and techniques
of environmental protection: technology standards and risk assessment
|
| Thu 1/20 |
Tools and techniques of environmental
protection: economic issues (market incentives, taxes/subsidies,
tragedy of the commons) |
| Tue 1/25 |
Common law environmental
remedies/ land use controls |
| Thu 1/27 |
Enforcement of federal environmental
laws (citizen suit enforcement) |
| Tue 2/1 |
Serving as an expert
witness |
| Thu 2/3 |
Politics and the law: who makes the rules?
(exam 1) |
| Part II |
Federal Environmental
and Natural Resources Law |
| Tue 2/8 |
Administrative law |
| Thu 2/10 |
Administrative law |
| Tue 2/15 |
Constitutional issues I |
| Thu 2/17 |
National Environmental Policy Act
& other disclosure statutes at federal, state, and local level |
| Tue 2/22 |
Water rights/allocation |
| Thu 2/24 |
Clean Water
Act |
| Tue 3/1 |
Wetlands protection and other water
pollution control statutes |
| Thu 3/3 |
Non-point source water
pollution control |
| Tue 3/8 |
Endangered Species Act |
| Thu 3/10 |
Habitat conservation
plans / adaptive management |
| Tue 3/15 |
SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS |
| Thu 3/17 |
SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS
|
| Tue 3/22 |
Public lands management |
| Thu 3/24 |
CERCLA and RCRA: brownfields
redevelopment, facilities siting, and environmental justice |
| Tue 3/29 |
Transportation planning
and issues: the Clean Air Act
(exam 2) |
| Part III |
Local
and Land Use Law |
| Thu 3/31 |
Constitutional issues II:
the takings clause, due process, and equal protection |
| Tue 4/5 |
Land use & zoning
law: history and overview |
| Thu 4/7 |
Environmental zoning techniques I: planned
unit development, overlay districts, open space zoning, urban growth
boundaries |
| Tue 4/12 |
Environmental zoning
techniques II: cluster zoning, conservation subdivisions, and transferable
development rights |
| Thu 4/14 |
Charrette on Chattahoochee Hill Country |
| Tue 4/19 |
Role of a scientist in policy development
at the state & local level |
| Thu 4/21 |
A design professional's role in state and local policy
development & implementation |
| Tue 4/26 |
No class/makeup day/project
presentations |
| thu 4/28 |
No class/makeup day/project presentations |
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