LAW 9258 - Environmental Ethics

Effective Date 05/01/2022
This seminar introduces students to major figures and frameworks in environmental ethics, including ecocentric and biocentric theories; consequentialism (including economic approaches); rights-based approaches, including environmental justice, the rights of animals, the rights of nature, and the argument among them; virtue ethics; religious perspectives; and relationships among law, philosophy and culture.

Credits: 2 to 3
Grading Basis Graded