Harvard Law School Course
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This introductory course focuses on the variety of legal mechanisms we use to address environmental harms such as air and water pollution, global climate change, and habitat destruction, and the role played by Congress, the courts and the executive branch in their design and implementation. We will begin with common law principles and foundational constitutional…
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This course focuses on the complex interaction of U.S. climate law and U.S. energy law, two different fields that have historically been governed by separate and sometimes seemingly contradictory goals and imperatives. The difficult question at the heart of the course is whether the two fields can be reconciled: can we imagine a legal and…
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This course is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will examine the legislative process by which Congress passes statutes; theories of statutory interpretation (including purposivism and textualism); tools and techniques of statutory construction (including semantic canons, substantive canons and the use of legislative history); the structural position of administrative agencies in…