Overview
"This is the 2015 edition of a casebook for an advanced law school course on the emerging law of green buildings. Everyone wants new buildings to be green and old buildings to be ""greened"". What will this mean for legal agreemens? What will be other legal consequences? Students identify and analyze types of green issues affecting every type of real estate transaction and construction project. They consider, also, legal and policy issues of green legislation which mandates compliance with green rules or creates incentives for green development and sustainability. In short, the course provokes answers to the question, ""what is the role of the lawyer in the green revolution?"" In short, in this course the students address green issues as lawyers."
Full Product Details
Author: Peter S Britell
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 0.60cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.218kg
ISBN: 9781460918760
ISBN 10: 1460918762
Pages: 118
Publication Date: 08 January 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
"Peter S. Britell is the author of Green Buildings: Law, Contract and Regulation (Law Journal Press, 2010, 2014 update, 750 p.), available at www.lawcatalog.com. Mr. Britell is a partner in Venable LLP. He has broad experience in virtually every area of construction and real estate practice and has been lead counsel in many high-profile transactions and projects. He is listed under Real Estate in Best Lawyers in America, New York Super Lawyers and The New York Area's Best Lawyers and has a Martindale Rating of AV Preeminent. He is an Adjunct Professor at University of Miami School of Law where he created one of the first law school courses (if not the first) in the Law of Green Buildings for their L.L.M. Program in Real Property Development. He was pro bono chair of Housing & Services, Inc. a New York not-for-profit corporation which during his 13-year tenure created more than $200 million in housing for the homeless and other lowest-income tenants. Mr. Britell is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College and a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and holds an LL.M in Taxation from New York University Law School. He has written regularly on real property and construction law. Mr. Britell's interest in the legal aspects of sustainability began with a question: ""What is the role of the lawyer in the green revolution?"" Mr. Britell can be contacted at psbritell@venable.com."
