NRE 3245 Study Guide - Fall 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - United States Environmental Protection Agency, Connecticut, United States Congress

• School: UConn
• Department: Natural Resources and the Environment
• Course: NRE 3245
• Professor: Professor HARRISON

Document Summary

4 parts of environmental law: approaches, tools, tool users, techniques. Deep (department of energy and environmental protection) - ct. Dep. of environmental control - state level agencies. Dep. of environmental management (word used in agency show a differentiation in priority) Conserve: live and work with, protection & control: militant and non-interactive. Before 1900"s law school was an alternative to college: you would get an llp (bachelor"s equivalent), llm (master eq. Starting in 1930"s, you had to get a bachelor"s degree and then go to law school. American law almost entirely derived from english law, and started without formal law-making . Common law: law created by judges through court case rulings. Common law of nuisance: use of your property in a way where it interferes with the rights of others using their property. Common law of nuisance was the first tool people used to deal with environmental cases and issues.