Environment and the Concept of Property--Seminar
Fall 1999
C. Rose
This seminar will meet weekly.
There is a considerable though not unmanageable amount of reading, though much of it is less densely-packed than the usual legal reading. You should read for larger concepts and ideas rather than for detail.
The reading material is divided into 9 weeks, to be followed by a few weeks for student presentations. We may vary that schedule if student work fits in better in another time.
Everyone is expected to read the material and participate.
Beginning Week 2, and continuing through Week 9, class participants are required to submit 2 questions elicited by the reading materials, along with one or two sentences stating why you think each of these are interesting or significant questions. These are due by noon on the day of the class, and earlier if you are able. An internet conference board is available, and you should submit your questions in that forum, so that they are available to everyone. (If you can
=t figure this out right away, e-mail them to me until you get the knack: carol.rose@yale.edu) I will use a number of your questions during the class that afternoon.Aside from class participation, members of the seminar can fulfill their class requirements in the following ways:
1. Take a take-home exam (2 credits)
2. Write a non-research paper (2 credits). This should be on an issue that pulls together several of the topics of the class. Though outside research is not required, the paper should show your consistent attention to all of the assigned reading. Please get my approval for paper topic. Aim at about 25 pages; 1 draft.
3. Write a research paper (3 credits) This should be on a topic of special interest to you. In addition to the paper, you should plan also make brief presentation to class sometime toward the later part of the semester.
--for all papers except SAW, including substantial credit: about 35-40 pages--1 draft with possibility of 2d if necessary.
--for SAW credit: about 45-50 pages--2 drafts, with possible 3rd if necessary. (I will only take a maximum of 3 of these).
Due dates for papers:
a) take home exams: due anytime during exam period.
b) 2 credit papers: due by BEGINNING of exam period
c) 3-credit research papers
TOPIC SELECTION due Oct. 21
OUTLINE due Nov. 11
DRAFTS & FINAL PAPERS
i ) ONE-DRAFT PAPERS: final paper due by BEGINNING of exam period
ii) 2-DRAFT PAPERS (SAWs)
--FIRST DRAFT due Nov. 30 (Tues)
--FINAL DRAFT: anytime to end of exam period.
Do not plan on being late with papers. I will readily grant requests to drop the seminar, but I will not accept papers after the deadlines. Draconianism is not my favored mode, but I simply cannot abide the account-keeping and nagging that goes with missed deadlines. I warn you about this character flaw of mine, because it means you have to be on time.
Here, for your convenience, are the above dates in calendar form:
Every week: read materials, prepare questions in rotation
Oct. 21: Topic selection due (3 credit papers)
Nov. 11: Outline due (3 credit papers)
Nov. 30 (Tues.): SAW 1st drafts due (1st draft optional for other papers)
Jan. 5: All papers due (EXCEPT takehome exams and SAW 2d drafts--may extend to Jan. 15)
There will be no class Dec. 2.
