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Environmental Law Seminar: Renewable Energy Law LAW 797Y

Course Number: LAW 797Y

Course Credits: 2

This introductory level course on renewable energy examines the historical and legal origins of renewable energy regulations and emerging policies in the developing and developed world. The course will specifically analyze China and Western Europe as interesting cases of changing energy markets and will explore the nature of their markets from a regulatory perspective. The centerpiece of this course is to focus on a specific renewable energy project (in a developing country) completed with international cooperation and assistance. The course will also focus on global institutions and policy making, the divide between industrialized countries and developing countries, the nexus between global climate change and renewable energy, sustainable energy sources, and challenges that global policymakers will face in the future. The course will look at the wide variety of local, regional, and international laws, regulatory techniques, and policy objects.