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274.5 sec. 001 - Environmental Law Practice Project Field Component (Spring 2025)
Instructor: Eric Gustav Biber (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
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Units: 2
Grading Designation: Credit Only
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Course End: May 14, 2025
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 6
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 12
As of: 01/21 05:35 PM
Students in this course will complete a substantial environmental legal project on behalf of a client. Projects may involve litigation (such as submission of an amicus brief) or administrative practice (such as submission of comments on a rule proposed by a federal or state environmental agency). With supervision from the instructors, the students will research the relevant legal, policy, and factual background, draft sections of the relevant work product, and help produce the final work product. The course will provide students with an opportunity to be directly involved in the practice of environmental law.
Practicum students must also enroll in the two-unit classroom component - 270.1 Environmental Law Practicum Seminar... Students should expect a significant time commitment for the Practicum and Seminar. Students should have previously taken both Environmental Law and Policy and Administrative Law. (With permission from the instructors, students may take one or both of those courses concurrently with this course.) Students will be assigned to work on a project, though they will be able to express a preference.
Students interested in the course must apply for admission by November 8. Applications are available by contacting Professor Biber at ebiber@law.berkeley.edu. Students will be notified by November 12 if they have been admitted to the course. After the deadline passes, late applications will be considered on a rolling basis as space permits.
Kevin Bundy is a partner at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP. He began his career at the firm in 2005, spent several years as a Senior Attorney and Climate Legal Director at the Center for Biological Diversity, and returned to the firm in 2018. Mr. Bundy primarily represents public interest clients in litigation and other matters involving the California Environmental Quality Act, local ballot measures, local land use law, and federal environmental statutes and regulation. He has argued cases before the California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal, and the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the District of Columbia and Ninth Circuits, and he has represented clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, California Energy Commission, and California Public Utilities Commission.
Seph Petta is a partner at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP, where he has been practicing land use and environmental law since 2012. Seph represents local governments and community groups on a range of environmental and land use topics including housing, access to public lands, wildfire risk, CEQA, and real property exchanges. Seph currently serves as Assistant City Attorney to the City of Marina and General Counsel to the Mendocino City Community Services District and the Ladera Recreation District.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
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Exam Notes: (None) Class requires a series of papers, assignments, or presentations throughout the semester
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Environmental and Energy Law
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