DOUBLE BOTTOM LINE COURSE LIST 2001-2002

Law School Classes

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION CLINIC (21O34). 3 units, credit/fail. A clinical seminar in which students will be engaged with actual environmental law or policy problems on behalf of client organizations (environmental groups, government agencies, international bodies, etc.). The class will meet weekly, and students will work eight to ten hours per week in interdisciplinary groups (with students from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and other departments or schools at Yale) on projects with a specific legal or policy product (e.g., draft legislation or regulations, hearing testimony, analytic studies, policy proposals) to be produced by the end of the term. Students may propose projects and client organizations, subject to approval by the instructor. Enrollment limited. D. S. Strait.

HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (2OO23). 3 units, credit/fail. A two-term, multidisciplinary workshop involving students from the schools of Law, Management, and Architecture. Under the supervision of faculty and members of the local bar, participants will work on behalf of nonprofit organizations, small businesses, and government agencies to promote job creation, neighbor- hood revitalization, low-income housing, and social service delivery in the New Haven area. The clinic will emphasize a nonadversarial, transactional approach to problem solving. As legal, financial, and architectural advisers, participants will research legal issues, facilitate negotiations, draft contracts, incorporate organizations, complete loan and grant applications, develop financial analyses, and draft architectural plans, among other tasks. Class topics will include professional responsibility, real estate finance, low-income housing policy, comparative advantages of nonprofit and for-profit organizations, and urban economic development. Enrollment limited; enrollment must be for two terms. J. L. Pottenger, Jr.

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS CLINIC (2OO51). 1 or 2 units, credit/fail. This clinical workshop will serve the needs of nonprofit organizations, nascent and established, that require help in the process of organization and incorporation, in obtaining tax exemption, and in solving ongoing legal problems -organizations that cannot afford to retain private counsel. The class will meet as a group five or six times during the term. J. G. Simon, L. N. Davis, and B. B. Lindsay.

PRIVATE INVESTMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT (2O174). 3 units. This seminar will examine the impact of private capital as a force that is reshaping environmental protection strategies. It will begin by examining fundamental questions of environmental policy in light of the shifts away from "command and control " regulations toward market-based instruments and from foreign aid to private investment as the driver of "sustainable development." The seminar will then consider the motivations of private investors, as well as some of the new approaches being used to increase the incentives for improved environmental performance. Examples from around the world will be used to illustrate the main themes. Paper required. Enrollment limited. B. S. Gentry.

LABOR LAW. (20213). 3 credits. This course examines the legal regime governing unionization of private-sector employees. The centerpiece of the course is the National Labor Relations Act, and its provisions regulating union organization, collective bargaining, the deployment of economic weapons by the parties (strikes, lockouts, boycotts, picketing, etc.), and the enforcement of collective bargaining agreements. The course will also examine the collisions between the NLRA's promotion of "collective" action and (i) the antitrust laws, (ii) laws (such as Title VII) that confer rights upon employees as individuals, and (iii) state laws regulating the employer-employee relationship. The course will explore whether unionization remains a viable option for employees in today's economic and social climate, why unionization has flourished in the public sector even as it has declined precipitously in the private sector, and whether other forms of collective employee participation, or joint employer-employee participation, might better serve today's private-sector employees. M. H. Gottesman.

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY. (20210). 4 units. The object of the course is to identify and assess critically a variety of legal strategies for dealing with pollution and preservation of our air, water, and land and wild resources. Among those strategies are common law nuisance, command-and-control regulation, the use of economic incentives, and applications of "adaptive management" and ecosystem conservation. The course will draw extensively on examples from the major pollution control statues - the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and several statutes to control toxic materials - as well as some statutes dealing with ecosystem and wildlife conservation. Along the way, the course will also take up issues of risk perception and risk management, environmental equity, and international environmental concerns. Examination. C.M. Rose.

STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW. (20242). 3 units. This course will review the structure of legal relationships and the allocation of authority among federal, state and local governments. It will address issues relating to police powers, governmental regulation of land use, government finance, and governmental immunities. Paper only. G. Priest.

CORPORATE FINANCE (20208). 3 units. This course will introduce students to some of the fundamentals of financial economics. Topics will include net present values, the capital asset pricing model, the efficient capital market hypotheses, event studies, and option theory. Student will need to learn to use electronic spreadsheet software (such as Excel) . Grades will be based on weekly computer problem sets and on an open-book final examination.I. Ayres.

HUMAN RIGHTS WORKSHOP: CURRENT ISSUES AND EVENTS. (21193). Conducted in workshop format and led by Professor Paul Kahn, Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, the course will discuss recent writings in the field, presentations from outside guests and participants, and newsworthy events in the human rights arena. The course is offered for 1 nongraded credit. P. Kahn.

PROPERTY. (20207). 4 units. This course will inquire into a pervasive set of human institutions - the arrangements for getting, using, transferring, and forfeiting resources in the world around. The course will begin by questioning the range of purposes for property regimes and then move through the topics of acquisition, transfer, shared interests, and limitations on property. While the main focus will be property in land, the class will discuss the implications of property in many areas - among others wild animals, oil and gas, recording and other notice-giving devices, interests in land over time, easements and deed restrictions, planned communities and "private government," landlord-tenant relations, issues of differential wealth and civil rights, and public land-use regulation. Examination. H. E. Smith.

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