Environmental Law Class To Be Taught By Leading Experts

“Making Peace with the Earth,” a course on global environmental law and food policy being offered in block 5 (May), will feature top experts, including Ved Nanda, JD, the director of International Legal Studies at the University of Denver and a leading international law scholar and global activist.

The course will identify key global environmental and food challenges facing the planet, and the international treaties that are currently in place to address them.

It will also examine the new paradigms, policies, and laws that need to be created in this century to make lasting peace with the planet.

Also teaching the course will be Bill Goldstein, dean of global development and MIU general counsel, who will identify the issues, A. Thimmaiah, expert on global food challenges, John Fagan, widely known for his expertise on genetically modified food and organic certification, Vandana Shiva, an Indian environmental activist and anti-globalization author, John Ikerd, an expert in agricultural economics, and Clovis Kabaseke, a professor at Mountains of the Moon University in Uganda.

For information, contact Professor Goldstein at bgoldstein@mum.edu.

Jim Karpen is a writer by trade, with a special focus on technology. He has a Ph.D. in English and studied the impact of the computerization of language. In addition to writing for iPhone Life magazine, he has also been writing a column about the Internet for the Iowa Source since 1994. He also edits and publishes the MUM Review.