Environmental Compliance and Compliance Regimes

Catalog description

In this skill-building online course, students learn how to spot facts that give rise to compliance issues for businesses and other private parties under U.S. environmental laws. Students also learn how to predict environmental law and policy outcomes and how to shape them adaptively at the federal level in the United States. They do so in part using perspectives informed by systems thinking. To acquire a global perspective on these tasks, students spend part of the course comparing how institutions and cultures shape what environmental law is and means in crucial countries around the world. This comparison focuses in part on the use of environmental law as a strategy for building a sustainable society.