Env Justice & Comm Lawyering (LAW-795EJ-001)
Amanda Leiter, Bill Snape, Fred Tutman
Notices
All summer 2021 classes will be taught online. Classes may have a combination of live sessions and asynchronous materials/assignments. The block of time listed here will be the maximum amount of live session meeting time expected of you and may decrease.
Description
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Textbooks and Other Materials
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First Class Readings
- Robert Bullard, Environmental Justice For All, essay
- Taking Nature Black, 2020 Taking Nature Black Highlight Video – and Live Music Video! - YouTube
- Ain’t I an Environmentalist too? Article by Ludovic Blaine
- Statement on Racism in the Environmental Field
- Environmental Justice Movement Timeline (scroll to the bottom of the page)
- Series in The Guardian by Nina Lakhani, Our Unequal Earth
- Please read the series intro story here
- Then pick 3-4 additional stories to read from the longer series (note that there are two pages of article links). At some point during the week, I will ask each of you to share the details of ONE story with the class. I will call on a few people each day, so you should be sure you’ve read the stories for day 1 and have notes to share with your classmates whenever I call on you.
- First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, “Principles of Environmental Justice,” Washington, D.C., October 24-27, 1991
- Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing
- Dorceta Taylor and Green 2.0, The Green Insiders’ Club; Green 2.0 2019 Report Card
- Scorecard.org Environmental Justice Maps (type in your hometown zip)
Syllabus
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