LGS-280 SpTp:Environment Law & Policy

Focuses on the practical balance between environmental laws, policies and societal values and how environmental protections are often a dynamic fusion of these factors. Students will study the differences between environmental laws and policies. Discusses and debates how applicable case laws, statutes, administrative agency rules and regulations impact national, state and local issues affecting the environment. Explores how core legal principles interplay with policy considerations and how court made law coupled with local statutes form an interlacing framework of policies and legal protections that ultimately determine, influence and define the "environment" as we know it. Lab fee $5. Prerequisite: LGS 111 and Eligibility for ENG 111 or permission of paralegal coordinator.