Course Information

Course Number

368

Credits

2

Area of Study & Practice

  • Environmental Law

Natural Resources Law and Policy

The law of how we use nature - timber, mining, bioversity, fisheries, water rights, and agriculture. Also an introduction to the historical and constitutional geography of American public lands: the national parks, forests, wilderness system, and grazing lands, and disputes over federal versus local control of these. There is special attention to the historical and political origins of our competing ideas of how nature matters and what we should do with it, from economically productive use to outdoor recreation to preserving the natural world for its own sake. Attention also to the complicated interplay of science and law.


Please note that course organization and content may vary substantially from semester to semester and descriptions are not necessarily professor specific. Please contact the instructor directly if you have particular course-related questions.

Sections/Instructors

James Salzman
Natural Resources Law and Policy 368.01
Fall 2012
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Jedediah Purdy
Natural Resources Law and Policy 368.01
Fall 2010
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James Salzman
Natural Resources Law and Policy 368.01
Spring 2010
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Brigham Daniels
Natural Resources Law and Policy 368.01
Fall 2007
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James Salzman
Natural Resources Law and Policy 368.01
Spring 2006

Jeremy M. Firestone
Natural Resources Law and Policy 368.01
Spring 2001