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LAW-2980 Power and Climate
Prof. Steven Ferrey,
2 credits day; 2 credits evening.
NOT OFFERED 2016-17
Law significantly regulates how U.S. infrastructure operates. This 1-week course navigates the
legal world of two of the most pressing issues facing the U.S. and the world: (1) World climate
change and rapid global warming, and (2) the variable of energy use in climate change and
renewable energy as part of the solution. Electric energy was recently identified as the second
most important invention in human history, and law plays a critical role because electricity is the
last of the legally regulated industries, regulated at both the federal and state levels. This class
will navigate through all aspects of this important area or climate change, global warming, and
energy solutions and regulation. This class will be offered during the day for one week in a small
seminar format, with reading on critical legal issues on energy and climate change, presentations
by the professor, and several in-class simulations on which students will represent different
clients and perspectives in current real-world battles on these issues.
Faculty comments
: This seminar encourages class participation. Grading will be based both on
class participation in the simulations we work on in class, and through a brief take-home essay
exam that students can do over the weekend after the final class.
Meets Skills Menu Requirement
<<Course Updated: July 05, 2016>>