LAW-3180: Environmental Law Survey

This condensed online introduction to environmental law surveys the common law, statutory and regulatory foundations of U.S. environmental regulation. Topics are drawn from federal regulation of air, water, and land pollution as well as review of projects impacting the environment. The course uses a problem-based approach in which students analyze hypothetical environmental controversies in online discussion forums and written problem analyses. Online asynchronous course. Students may take up to 27 credits under the 83 credit requirement (28 under the 86 credit requirement) toward their J.D. degree through courses that are designated "distance education courses." This course counts toward the distance education credit limit. A distance education course is one in which students are separated from the faculty member or each other for more than one-third of the instruction and the instruction involves the use of technology to support regular and substantive interaction among students and between the students and the faculty member, either synchronously or asynchronously. Source: ABA Standard 306(a).