LAW COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

LAW-2980 Power and Climate Prof. Steven Ferrey, 2 credits day; 2 credits evening.

NOT OFFERED 2016-17

Law significantly regulates how U.S. infrastructure operates. This 1-week course navigates the legal world of two of the most pressing issues facing the U.S. and the world: (1) World climate change and rapid global warming, and (2) the variable of energy use in climate change and renewable energy as part of the solution. Electric energy was recently identified as the second most important invention in human history, and law plays a critical role because electricity is the last of the legally regulated industries, regulated at both the federal and state levels. This class will navigate through all aspects of this important area or climate change, global warming, and energy solutions and regulation. This class will be offered during the day for one week in a small seminar format, with reading on critical legal issues on energy and climate change, presentations by the professor, and several in-class simulations on which students will represent different clients and perspectives in current real-world battles on these issues. Faculty comments : This seminar encourages class participation. Grading will be based both on class participation in the simulations we work on in class, and through a brief take-home essay exam that students can do over the weekend after the final class.

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