LAWS 4450 Environmental Law: Teaching Seminar
A seminar providing law students the opportunity to teach a University course in Environmental Law to graduate and undergraduate non-law students. Enrollment limited to eight law students selected from two area law schools--BC and BU. Teachers are given Boston College faculty status [but unsalaried!]. With the professor's advisory participation, two-person teams of law students teach an individually-designed section of a spring semester course in Environmental Law and legal process, each team's class enrollment comprising fifteen to thirty-five students from a wide variety of majors. A weekly law school seminar in the spring semester coordinates the research and teaching preparation. (Six preparatory sessions are required during the fall semester.) 2 pass/fail credits will be awarded in the Fall; 3 pass/fail credits will be awarded in the Spring; and there is the option for a 1-credit graded independent study in the Fall or Spring semester.
Course overview
- Department
- Law
- School
- LAW
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Graduate
- Offered
- Every Fall, Every Spring
Catalog details
- Prerequisites
- LAWS2512 (Environmental Law)
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.55 / 5 · Excellent
- Instructor rating
- 4.52 / 5 · Excellent
- Terms evaluated
- 7
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | Michael Tierney | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 7–9 hrs/week | 3 of 3 |
| Fall 2025 | Michael Tierney | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 1–3 hrs/week | 3 of 5 |
| Spring 2025 | Michael Tierney | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 7–9 hrs/week | 4 of 5 |
| Fall 2024 | Michael Tierney | 4.7 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 1–3 hrs/week | 3 of 5 |
| Spring 2024 | Jeffry Fowley | 5.0 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 10+ hrs/week | 4 of 6 |
| Spring 2023 | Zygmunt Plater | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 10+ hrs/week | 8 of 9 |
| Spring 2022 | Zygmunt Plater | 5.0 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 10+ hrs/week | 6 of 8 |