Welcome to Environmental Law and Regulation!

I'm looking forward to meeting you. We'll be Zooming this semester, so I'll send out a link the week before classes begin. In the meantime, here's what you'll need to do for the first week of classes. A lot of this will be available on Blackboard starting next week -- but I wanted you to have a heads up on what to expect. 

Environmental Issues, Evaluation Criteria, and Priorities

Class 1, on-line, assignments due Tuesday, August 25, 2020, by 11:59 a.m.)

Watch:
Video introduction to and overview of the course and to me as an instructor (via Blackboard site - available next week).
Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction, Elizabeth Fisher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq3racsBxg0

Read:

Welcome Letter (Emailed to you, and on BB)
Course Requirements (Emailed to you, and on BB)

Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 1 Troubles, pages 1-5
Mintz article on environmental law – (Available on Blackboard)

Current event article from newspaper (Available on Blackboard)

Post:
Personal Introduction on Blackboard (BB) Discussion Board

Please post a personal introduction on our course Blackboard site and respond to 2 classmates’ posts. Do not start a new thread. Use the thread I started. In your post, please respond to the following:

1. Write a couple of sentences about your interest in the Environmental Law and Regulation course?
2. What did you study in undergrad and why did you choose it?
3. Did you have a full-time job before coming to law school? If so, what was it and why did you leave it for law school?
4. Tell us something cool or interesting about you – (This could be someplace you’ve lived, a job you’ve had, something you like to do – anything – but you can’t skip this question!)

   Class 2 - Thursday, August 27, in-person

   Read:
   Executive Agencies with Environmental Responsibilities (BB)
   Agenda of “Unfinished Business” Identified by EPA (BB)
   The Issues Considered in Setting Regional Environmental Priorities (BB)
   Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons (BB)
   Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 2, Environmental Problems, pages 6-18.
   Leal, How Fishing Communities Protect Their Futures, at: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2009/09/learning-from-maines-lobster-wars/26613/.
   Fox, Maine is Drowning in Lobsters, at https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-18/maine-is-drowning-in-lobsters