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Spring 2025

5211 Energy and the Environment - LANDERS- 18038

Professor(s): Daniella Landers (ADJUNCT)

Credits: 2

Course Areas: Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law 

Time: 5:30p-7:30p  T  Location: 221 

Course Outline: An environmental law course that will explore pivotal issues involving the synergistic relationship between energy law and environmental law. The course will examine several critical topics of global importance associated with various sources of energy and the impact on natural resources and the environment.

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: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)

Course Materials

Book(s) Required

Course Materials: Refers to Energy, Economics and the Environment (6th Edition) by J. Eisen, E. Hammond, et al. ISBN: 9781685614218

OPTIONAL COURSE BOOK (RECOMMENDED IF NO PRIOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW COURSES):

(ST) = Refers to Environmental Law and Policy (5th Edition) by J. Salzman & B. Thompson (or similar primer)