Categories: Environmental Law Administrative and Regulatory Law
Course Description
This course covers the law and policy of the disposition and
use of natural resources in the
We will emphasize federally owned and managed resources, especially the nearly
one-third of this country's land area that is owned by the federal government,
although you will also learn a little about the management of state and private
lands as well. Main topics include the history of public land law; the
constitutional basis for federal control of natural resources, and legal
doctrines and principles that cut across the whole field. We will study two
important statutes that, while often included in environmental law curricula,
are equally pivotal to natural land use and management in the
States
Act and the Endangered Species Act. We will then turn to studies of particular
types of resources, including fisheries, wilderness and recreational areas,
water, rangelands, federally owned minerals, and forests.