MS3142

This introductory law course will familiarize students with the statutes, government regulations, and agreements that protect natural resources, human health, and the local, domestic, and international transboundary environment. Students will study the role of the American legal system as it functions to control and remediate environment problems; evaluate opportunities to use judicial, administrative, legislative, and economic political processes to address these problems; analyze a number of U. S. environments statutes; and examine international laws and organizations that target environmental issues of the global commons.

Books/Materials >$50, Social Science Group II

Fall and Spring