Administrative Law (3130) Clean water, safe food and drugs, stable banks, sensible land use, an open and accessible internet-these and many more aspects of modern American life depend largely on decisions made by unelected officials staffing administrative agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. This course examines the authority and procedures that these administrative agencies use to make law, investigate violations of the law, and adjudicate the application of the law to individuals and businesses. The course raises student awareness regarding the operation of the administrative state and important separation of powers and due process questions raised by ubiquitous administrative governance. Grading: Exam Credits: 3 Offered: Fall/Spring Subject Areas: Administrative and Legislative Process, Child and Family Law, Government Practice, Health Law, Public Interest Law, Business and Commercial, Criminal Law, Employment Law, Environmental Law Energy Law (4614) The energy industry is heavily regulated yet energy law is a rapidly changing field. The goal of this course is to provide an overview of energy law by examining selected topics in the law of extraction, generation, and distribution of energy resources in the electric, natural gas, and oil industries. This course does not address the transportation industry. This course concentrates on the role of state and federal agencies, the balance between regulation and competition, and the transition to renewable energy. Taking Administrative Law prior to this course is recommended, but not required. Grading: Letter graded. Credits: 2 Offered: Spring Subject Areas: Environmental Law Environmental Law Survey (3921) 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. Grading: Letter Credits: 2 Offered: Irregularly Subject Areas: Environmental Law Land Use Law (4833) Land use matters impact our lives on a daily basis. Federal, state, and local laws dictate what we (and our neighbors) can and cannot do with our property. Some of the most significant decisions from the United States Supreme Court deal with the tension between private property rights and governmental regulation. Due process, equal protection, First Amendment, civil rights, fair housing, and discrimination issues are commonly encountered. This course deals with those and related issues, including recent hot buttonĀ topics such as governmental takings of private property, exclusionary zoning, and regulation of religious institutions. Grading: Letter graded Credits: 2 Offered: Fall Subject Areas: Real Estate Law, Environmental Law Seminar: Race, Health Equity & the Law (4028) The Institute of Medicine defines public health as "what we, as a society do collectively to assure the conditions for people to be healthy." Unlike health care, which focuses on medical interventions to improve the health of individual patients, public health takes a broader look at the wide-ranging determinants of population health. Although various interventions have been devised to protect health at the population level, disparities in health outcomes persist, with marginalized communities--racial and ethnic minorities, sexual minorities, low socioeconomic status people--bearing a disproportionate amount of negative health outcomes. These inequitable health outcomes are largely products of structural and institutional factors that are grounded in the law. This course will adopt a critical approach to law--along the axes of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual identity, and class--to examine how the law creates, sustains, and legitimizes inequitable health outcomes. This critical approach will be used to analyze the legal dimensions of current public health issues, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the obesity epidemic, tobacco control, healthcare access, natural disasters & climate change, and socio-political determinants of health to challenge students think beyond the traditional paradigms of legal reasoning. Grading: Letter Credits: Variable Offered: Irregularly Categories: Long Paper Subject Areas: Health Law, Public Interest Law, Constitutional Law and Civil Rights, Environmental Law