Spring 2026
Professor(s):
Tracy Hester (DIRECTOR/SUPERVISOR )
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Practice Skills - (Research and Writing)
Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law
Time: 4:00p-5:30p MW Location:
Course Outline: This course explores evolving legal issues in the fast-changing world of environmental protection and natural resources law. Students will analyze regulatory changes, landmark legal decisions, and policy shifts that influence the governance of environmental challenges such as climate change, species protection, pollution controls, remediation and site cleanups, and ecosystem integrity. Through case studies, legislative reviews, and discussions on executive actions, students will explore, and respond to, current legal challenges and opportunities in environmental law.
Course 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-9.
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Final Exam Schedule:
This course will have:
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Paper:
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
No book required for this course
Course Materials: Materials provided by professor.