Law L6272 Land Use Controls Examines theoretical and public policy justifications for, and critiques of, public controls over the use of private lands, including municipal zoning and its variants, subdivision controls, historical preservation requirements, growth controls, farmland preservation regulations, and environmental land use controls for such purposes as wetland conservation, watershed protection, coastal zone management, and habitat preservation. Consideration of these topics embraces recent developments in taking jurisprudence, as well as current proposals to create a statutory takings standard for compensation of landowners adversely affected by governmental regulation. Law L8036 Environmentalism and the Protection of Natural Resources Examination of several different regulatory and non-regulatory mechanisms and their successes and failures. Study of the forces that motivate legislation and of key federal environmental statutes focusing on the regulatory methods used, such as disclosures, prohibitions, permits and effluent limits, markets, and tort-like damages. Law L9155 Environmental Law Study of particular problems that arise from environmental litigation and the techniques developed to address them.
Special attention is paid to the protection of natural areas, resource recovery, and solid waste.
Students will be expected to participate actively in class exercises that will include simulated international negotiations or arbitration over typical international environmental issues. An introduction to preventive health practices, with emphasis on environmental factors. Review of basic concepts in biomedical sciences as they relate to disease causation. Toxicology, especially carcinogenesis, is stressed. In cooperation with other divisions, tropical diseases and the implications of population growth are discussed.