STSS-4540

Environment, Law, and Culture

This course explores how culture influences the perception of environmental problems, and the legal strategies relied on to solve them. The course also explores how environmental crisis challenges conventional ways of assessing and resolving social problems, requiring the innovation of new standards for establishing evidence, responsibility, and compensation. Case studies analyze historical change in the way the law operates, particularly with regard to threats to human health. Prerequisite: junior/senior status or permission of instructor. Spring term alternate years.

4 credit hours