Spring 2025
Professor(s):
Chinonso Anozie (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law
Practice Skills - (Research and Writing)
Time: 10:30a-12:00p MW Location: 200
Course Outline: 2. This course will focus on the concept and meaning of environmental justice (EJ) and its intersection with sustainability. It will explore the causes of unequal distribution of environmental goods and harms domestically and globally and why it is significant. Using case studies, we will compare and contrast the disparate impacts of energy and environmental activities, corporate activities, and government regulation across various population segments globally. Our goal is to analyze the various reasons for these disparities and seek fair and just solutions grounded in law, policy, or practice. Additionally, the seminar explores the intersection between the negative externalities of renewables and environmental justice. Students are expected to discuss current EJ initiatives and their efficacy in addressing global environmental injustices. Students will make in-class presentations and write a final paper on a current environmental justice issue.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: Yes
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: Required if getting printed materials: 9781531012380, 9780578666150; Recommended if getting print: 9781585761913, and linked below.
1. Clifford Villa, et al.; Environmental Justice, Law, Policy, and Regulation. (3rd Ed. 2020) (Used copy or eBook suffices)
2. The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (21st ed. 2020)
Recommended Texts:
1. Barry E. Hill; Environmental Justice, Legal Theory and Practice. (4th ed. 2018)
2. Cole, Luke W., and Sheila R. Foster. From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. NYU Press, 2001.
