Spring 2024
Professor(s):
Tracy Hester (DIRECTOR/SUPERVISOR )
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law
Time: 2:30p-4:00p MW Location: 200
Course Outline: This course offers a comprehensive introduction to appellate advocacy through participation in cases important to the development of environmental law. We will identify emerging issues through new cases in federal and state appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, that would play critical roles in the effective and comprehensive application of federal and state environmental law. Some of these issues include standing, representation of untraditional plaintiffs, scope of judicial relief, administrative law questions important to the functioning of environmental agencies, and key issues of statutory interpretive doctrine.
This course will use a combination of lectures, class discussions, in-class drafting sessions, and case selection reviews. Students will review dockets from each federal circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court to identify new cases and appeals that pose important issues. Each student may assist in preparation of briefs on those selected cases, and the class will include moot presentations or mock oral arguments related to pending disputes.
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.
Quota=12.
Prerequisites: Yes Environmental Law Or permission from Professor Hester.
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 5/2/2024 2-5
This course will have:
Exam: No
Paper: Yes
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
