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L8451Advanced Climate Change Law

Postgraduate course

Project description

This seminar examines cutting-edge U.S. and international issues in the regulation of climate change. The topics vary from year to year, but they are likely to include litigation and other legal methods to resist cutbacks in federal climate change regulations, and to encourage state-level regulation; legal techniques to restrict land uses in areas that are especially vulnerable to climate impacts; displacement and relocation of populations as a result of climate change; the legal status of small island nations whose existence is threatened by climate change; new developments in carbon markets; the prospect for alternative approaches to reaching international agreements on climate change; novel forms of electricity regulation that reduce greenhouse gases; and options available for domestic climate regulation in the absence of Congressional action. Each student will be required to prepare and present a research paper.