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The School of Law's curriculum and instruction are designed to develop the highest potential of all students. The School's primary objectives as a law school are to provide state-of-the-art facilities and technology resources necessary to compete in a global environment; challenge the brightest minds through the instruction of nationally and internationally recognized scholars; inspire excellence and awaken in the mind and heart a passion for the highest standards of skill, merit, and eminence within the practice of law; and integrate rigorous academic curriculum with practical, hands-on experience.

Moreover, the School houses the Center for Water Law and Policy, established to create and develop opportunities for exploring and assessing legal, regulatory, institutional, and policy aspects of water use, allocation, regulation, and conservation at all levels of civil society, from the purely local to the decisively global.

The listing below shows the courses offerings in the college that have a direct focus on water resources.

You may also wish to visit the list of water-related faculty in the School of Law.

Courses

Agricultural Law. 6254. This course covers topics such as federal and Texas laws affecting the agricultural and food industry; impact of federal farm programs; Packers and Stockyards Act; agriculture commodities; basic agriculture financing and warehousing; soil, water, environmental and conservation laws and regulations; and health and safety regulations in the agriculture and food industry.

Environmental Law.  6327. The respective roles of the federal and state governments in handling such problems as air and water pollution, agricultural pollution, use of public lands, and land-use planning. Federal and state regulatory means to safeguard the environment will be considered in detail.

International Environmental Law. 6322. This course provides a contemporary perspective of the international law applicable to transboundary and global environmental issues. It focuses on the relationship of international environmental law with international trade, development, and human rights as well as the role of international and non-governmental organizations in the development of international law and policy. The course includes discussions of case studies of disputes and investigations, such as transboundary pollution, international waterways, the global commons, global warming, import/export of hazardous substances, species extinction, and others.

International Water Law. 6221. This seminar will consider the basic concepts of international law relating to the navigational and non-navigational uses of freshwater resources.

Public Land Law. 6211. This course studies the ownership of land by the United States from the onset of nationhood until the present time. Constitutional an statutory doctrines that have shaped the disposition, retention, and management of those lands will also be analyzed. In addition, a study will be made of how the United States exploits the natural resources owned by it including water, timber, mineral, range, wildlife, recreation, and preservation resources.

Water Law.  6027. A study of private law systems for allocating water among users, the public law systems of allocation, groundwater management, development of new water supplies, interstate disputes, and water pollution.