Law 271 - Environmental Law & Policy - Dan Farber (Fall 2010)

• Lecture 1 Overview of Environmental Law
• Lecture 2 Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Lecture 3 Judicial Approaches to Risk
• Lecture 4 Environmental Economics
• Lecture 5 Environmental Justice and Compensation
• Lecture 6 Environmental Regulation and Federal Power
• Lecture 7 Limits on State Regulatory Power
• Lecture 8 Standing I
• Lecture 9 Standing II
• Lecture 10 Standards of Judicial Review
• Lecture 11 NEPA I
• Lecture 12 NEPA II
• Lecture 13 NEPA III
• Lecture 14 Air Pollution and CAA Intro
• Lecture 15 CAA Basics and Pollutant Listing
• Lecture 16 CAA and Climate Change (Mass v. EPA merits)
• Lecture 17 State Implementation Plans
• Lecture 18 Nonattainment, NSR, Permits
• Lecture 19 Mobile Sources, Interstate Air Pollution
• Lecture 20 Cap-and-Trade and the CAA
• Lecture 21 Catch-up and discussion of climate policy
• Lecture 22 Introduction to the Clean Water Act
• Lecture 23 Point Sources and Permitting
• Lecture 24 Technology and Cost as Regulatory Factors under the CWA
• Lecture 25 Federal Jurisdiction Over Wetlands
• Lecture 26 Wetland Regulation and the Takings Clause; CAA Reform

Law 271 - Environmental Law & Policy - Bob Infelise (Fall 2009)

• Lecture 1  Environmental Policy Perspectives
  What Is Environmental Law? Insights from Ecology? Insights from Economics
• Lecture 2  Environmental Policy Perspectives
  The Role of Values
• Lecture 3 Environmental Common Law 1
  Pollution on the Pigeon River; Common Law Environmental Doctrines
• Lecture 4  Environmental Common Law 2
  Common Law Versus Public Law
• Lecture 5  The Administrative Law of the Environment 1
  The Administrative Decisionmaking Process; Judicial Review of Agency Action Standing
• Lecture 6  The Administrative Law of the Environment 2
  Judicial Review of Agency Action Standing; Ripeness, Exhaustion and Mootness
• Lecture 7 The Administrative Law of the Environment 3
  Judicial Review of Agency Action Jurisdiction; Reviewability and Scope of Review
• Lecture 8 Natural Resources 1
  NEPA and the Power of Information; Introduction to NEPA; The Duty to Prepare an EIS; “Recommendation or Report on Proposals”
• Lecture 9 Natural Resources 2
  NEPA and the Power of Information; The Duty to Prepare an EIS; “Major Federal Actions”; “Significantly Affecting the Quality of the Environment”
• Lecture 10 Natural Resources 3
  NEPA and the Power of Information; Contents of the EIS; Evaluating NEPA; Beyond NEPA: Information and the Market
• Lecture 11 Toxics and Waste 1
  Risk Assessment and Management
• Lecture 12 Toxics and Waste 2
  Introduction to Regulating Toxic Risks
• Lecture 13 Air Pollution Control 1
  Air Pollution Control; Introduction and Overview; National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards
• Lecture 14 Air Pollution Control 2
  National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Implementing the NAAQS:  State Implementation Plans
• Lecture 15 Air Pollution Control 3
  National Ambient Air Quality Standards; The Problem of Non-Attainment
• Lecture 16 Air Pollution Control 4
  New Source Review and the Problem of Grandfathering
• Lecture 17 Air Pollution Control 5
  Tradeable Emission Permits: Using the Power of Markets
• Lecture 18 Air Pollution Control 6
  Automobile Emissions and Technology Forcing
• Lecture 19 Water Pollution Control 1
  Introduction and Overview; Control of Point-Source Pollution:  The NPDES Program; Covered Waters
• Lecture 20 Water Pollution Control 2
  Control of Point-Source Pollution:  The NPDES Program; Covered Waters; Covered Activities
• Lecture 21 Water Pollution Control 3
  Control of Point-Source Pollution:  The NPDES Program; Effluent Standards for Point Sources
• Lecture 22 Water Pollution Control
  Nonpoint Source Pollution; Water Quality Standards
• Lecture 23 Pollution Control: Environmental Enforcement 1
  Introduction; Civil Enforcement
• Lecture 24 Pollution Control: Environmental Enforcement 2
  Criminal Enforcement
• Lecture 25 Pollution Control: Environmental Enforcement 3
  Citizen Suits
• Lecture 26 Environmental Federalism 1
  Historical and Theoretical Background; Cooperative Federalism
• Lecture 27 Environmental Federalism 2
  Sources and Limits on Federal Power
• Lecture 28  Environmental Federalism 3
  Limits on State Power Preemption
  

Law 271.71 - International Environmental Law - Cymie Payne (Spring 2009)

• Lecture 1 - The Scope of International Environmental Law
• Lecture 2 - Dispute Settlement, Compliance and International Institutions
• Lecture 3 - Bilateral Disputes
• Lecture 4 - Transboundary Watercourses and Groundwater
• Lecture 5 - Montreal Protocol
• Lecture 6 - Climate Change 1
• Lecture 7 - Human Rights and Environment - Guest: Neil Popovic
• Lecture 8 - Climate Change 2
• Lecture 9 - Biodiversity
• Lecture 10 - Role of National Courts and Laws
• Lecture 11 - Trade and Environment
• Lecture 12 - Hazardous Materials 
• Lecture 13 - State Responsibility - War and Environment
• Lecture 14 - Making International Environmental Law Work - Compliance, Enforcement, Effectiveness

Law 272.3 - Climate Change: Law & Policy - Dan Farber & Cymie Payne (Fall 2008)

• Lecture 1 - The Science of Climate Change
  Guest: William Collins, Senior Scientist and Department Head, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Professor in Residence, University of California, Berkeley
• Lecture 2 - The Economics of Climate Change
  Guest: Michael Hanemann, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• Lecture 3 - Financing Adaptation
  Guest: Teresa Stanton, Reference Librarian for Foreign and Comparative Law, Berkeley Law Library
• Lecture 5 - Insurance
  Guest: Evan Mills, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Environmental Energy Technologies Division
• Lecture 6 - The International Climate Regime
• Lecture 7 - Engaging the Developing World
• Lecture 8 - Climate Change and Biodiversity
  Guests: Kassie Siegel, Staff Attorney, Center for Biological Diversity and Steven Beissinger, Professor of Conservation Biology, Chair of Ecosystem Sciences Division and Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley
• Lecture 9 - Climate and Trade Law: The Biofuels Problem
  Guest: Mike O'Hare, Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
• Lecture 10 - Massachusetts v. EPA and its Aftermath 
• Lecture 11 - Putting a Price on Carbon - Cap & Trade, Carbon Tax
• Lecture 12 - Current Federal Statutes and Litigation
  Guest: Ken Alex, Office of the Attorney General 

Law 272.1 - Water Resources Law - Antonio Rossmann (Fall 2008)

• Sept. 25: Western Water Law Evolution, Constitutional Issues
• Dec. 2: Colorado River and other interstate allocations

Law 270.7 - Renewable Energy & Alternative Fuels - Steve Weissman (Fall 2008)

• Lecture 1 - Introduction to Renewable Energy Options
• Lecture 2 - Federal Renewable Energy Programs
• Lecture 3 - State Programs and Regional
• Lecture 4 - State Programs & an Introduction to Local Government Programs
• Lecture 5 - Distributed Generation
• Lecture 6 - Transmission and Deregulation
• Lecture 7 - Technology-Specific Issues and Opportunities: Wind
• Lecture 8 - Technology-Specific Issues and Opportunities: Geothermal
• Lecture 9 - Technology-Specific Issues and Opportunities: Distributed Solar
• Lecture 10 - Technology-Specific Issues and Opportunities
• Lecture 11 - Biomass & Biofuels, and Landfill Gas
• Lecture 12 - Waves, Tides, & Ocean Thermal
• Lecture 13 - Small Hydro, Alternative Fossil Fuels, and Hydrogen
• Lecture 14 - Greenhouse Gases and Wrap-up
  

Law 270.6 - Energy Regulations and the Environment - Steve Weissman (Spring 2008)

• Lecture 1 - Introduction to Energy and Electricity
• Lecture 2 - Public Utilities & Rate Regulation: Intro to Finance
• Lecture 3 - Public Utilities & Rate Regulation: Cost of Service Regulation (Part 1)
• Lecture 4 - Public Utilities & Rate Regulation (part 2)
• Lecture 6 - Resource Alternatives: Tradition Fuels, Oil and Hydroelectric Power
• Lecture 8 - Resource Alternatives: Natural Gas
• Lecture 9 - Resource Alternatives: Renewable Energy - The Technologies
• Lecture 10 - Demand Side Management: Energy Efficiency
• Lecture 11 - Performance Based Ratemaking and Decoupling
• Lecture 12 - Deregulation and Markets: Wholesale Electricity Markets
• Lecture 14 - Climate Change and Carbon Markets
• Lecture 15 - Course Review

Law 271 - Environmental Law and Policy - Holly Doremus (Spring 2008)

• Lecture 1 - What is Environmental Law?
• Lecture 2 - The Role of Values
• Lecture 3 - Common Law Environmental Doctrines
• Lecture 4 - Common Law Versus Public Law
• Lecture 5 - Introduction to Standing
• Lecture 6 - Standing (continued)
• Lecture 7 - Judicial Review
• Lecture 8 - Introduction: NEPA and the Power of Information
• Lecture 9 - The Duty to Prepare an EIS
• Lecture 10 - Contents of the EIS - Evaluating NEPA: Other Information Based Strategies
• Lecture 11 - NEPA (continued)
• Lecture 12 - Risk Assessment and Management
• Lecture 13 - From Risk Assessment to Regulation
• Lecture 14 - Air Quality Criteria and Standards
• Lecture 15 - State Implementation Plans
• Lecture 16 - Make-up session: Grandfathering and New Source Review 
• Lecture 17 - Automobile Emissions and Technology Forcing
• Lecture 18 - Tradeable Emission Permits
• Lecture 19 - Introduction and Overview: The NPDES Program
• Lecture 20 - The Scope of NPDES Regulation (continued)
• Lecture 21 - Effluent Standards for Point Sources
• Lecture 22 - Nonpoint Source Pollution - Water Quality Standards
• Lecture 23 - Introduction: Civil Enforcement
• Lecture 24 - Criminal Enforcement
• Lecture 25 - Citizen Suits
• Lecture 26 - Historical and Theoretical Background: Cooperative Federalism
• Lecture 27 - Sources and Limits of Federal Power
• Lecture 28 - Preemption

Conferences

Environmental Protection in the Balance: Citizens, Courts, and the Constitution

February 26, 2010, 9:00 AM
Georgetown Law  

Today, the most important environmental law and policy disputes are shaped in the crucible of constitutional law. This symposium, anchored by two keynote speakers, will convene leading scholars, practicing lawyers, and policymakers to explore topics at the confluence of constitutional and environmental law.   Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, the Environmental Law Institute, and the Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Program, the symposium will be held at the Georgetown University Law Centerin Washington, DC. The event is open to policymakers, academics and law students, and practicing lawyers, as well as the general public.

Welcome & Introductions
Leslie Carothers, Environmental Law Institute;  Richard Frank, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, Berkeley Law;  Peter Byrne, Georgetown Law

Opening Keynote Presentation
Richard J. Lazarus, Georgetown University Law Center

Citizen Standing/Access to Courts
Panelists   Holly D. Doremus, Faculty Co-Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, UC Berkeley School of Law;  Bradford C. Mank, University of Cincinnati College of Law;  David Bookbinder, Senior Attorney, Chief Climate Counsel, Sierra Club;  Honorable Edwin S. Kneedler, Deputy U.S. Solicitor General

Scope of Congressional Authority to Protect the Environment
Panelists   Bruce Myers, Senior Attorney, Environmental Law Institute;  William W. Buzbee, Emory Law School;  Wm. Robert Irvin, Senior Vice President for Conservation Programs, Defenders of Wildlife;  Michael W. Evans, Partner, K&L Gates LLP

Lunchtime Keynote
Honorable Peter W. Hall, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Constitutional Status of State/Regional Climate Initiatives
Panelists  Vicki Arroyo, Georgetown Law;  Ray Ludwiszewski, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP;   Kenneth P. Alex, Office of the Attorney General, State of California;  Doug Kendall, Constitutional Accountability Center  

New & Emerging Constitutional Theories and the Future of Environmental Protection
Panelists  James R. May, Widener Law School;  Doug Kysar, Yale Law School Dan Farber, Berkeley Law;  Robert L. Glicksman, The George Washington University Law School

Closing Remarks & Adjournment
Richard Frank, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, Berkeley Law;  Leslie Carothers, Environmental Law Institute

California and the Future of Environmental Law and Policy:

Leading the Global Response to Environmental and Energy Challenges

April 10-11, 2008, 08:00AM
Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall

California's natural resources, economy, demographics and political system have made it a unique laboratory for environmental policy over the past half century. As a result, California has often led both the nation and the world in recognizing environmental challenges, and in fashioning creative and effective solutions to them.

This conference brought together leading environmental policymakers, scholars and legal practitioners to address California's current and future role at the forefront of environmental law and policy development. In the process, speakers mapped for conference attendees California?s environmental policy agenda for the coming decades. That agenda, in turn, has broad ramifications, inasmuch as California's environmental dilemmas are a microcosm of those faced nationally and globally. The environmental solutions California devises to those problems will doubtless prove influential far beyond our borders.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

• California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy - Welcome & Keynote
• The Potential and Limitations of Litigation in Furthering Climate Change Policy
• Lunch Keynote - Jared Huffman
• Ocean Resources: New Opportunities, New Threats
• The Green Chemistry Revolution: A New Paradigm for Reducing and Managing Hazardous Wastes
• Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency - From California to the World

Friday, April 11, 2008

• Opening Speaker - Dr. Steven Chu
• California's Regulatory Response to Climate Change - Implementing AB 32
• Integrating Land Use and Transportation Policy in California
• California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy - Closing Remarks