273.63 sec. 001 - Public Lands and Natural Resources Law (Fall 2024)
Instructor: Gregory Cahill Loarie (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
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Units: 3
Grading Designation: Graded
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meeting:
W 3:35 PM - 6:15 PM
Location: Law 145
From August 21, 2024
To November 20, 2024
Course End: November 20, 2024
Class Number: 32566
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 25
Waitlisted: 2
Enroll Limit: 34
As of: 05/15 11:57 PM
Nearly a third of the total land in the United States, and almost half of the eleven western States, is currently owned by the federal government. Management of these vast federal lands and their enormous natural resources impacts all of us and will profoundly affect our collective capacity to stabilize the climate, redress colonial injustice, and preserve biodiversity in the 21st century.
This course surveys the complex constitutional and statutory law governing federal public lands and natural resources. We will review the history of federal land acquisition, disposition, and reservation, and we will look closely at the agencies responsible for administering federal lands today. We will cover a substantial amount of administrative law, with a particular emphasis on the judiciary’s role in federal land management. Substantive statutes covered in detail will include the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the National Forest Management Act, the Mineral Leasing Act and the Wilderness Act. Students will have an opportunity to work with materials commonly used in administrative and environmental law practice, such as comments on proposed rules and environmental review documents.
Greg Loarie is a senior attorney at the public interest environmental law firm Earthjustice, where he has had the opportunity to litigate cases involving most of the principal statutes governing federal public lands and natural resources.
Exam Notes: (TH) Take-home examination
Exam Length: 6 hours
Course Category: Environmental and Energy Law
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