Courses Offered in Vienna
Courses for the 2010 Vienna Program are:
International and Comparative Environmental Law, taught by Professor Richard Schneider, will examine trends in environmental lawmaking on the national and international level. Comparisons will be offered between U.S. and EU approaches to particular environmental problems. The influence of international initiatives will also be discussed. The principal area of inquiry will be the very different approaches to the issue of climate change in the U.S. and the EU. Field trips include a steel mill and a wind farm. The course will be especially exciting as we investigate the results of the Copenhagen 2009 climate change meeting. An exam will be given after the conclusion of the program.
Comparative Tax, taught by Professor Joel Newman, will address selected topics in taxation. It will consider the different choices that countries make when faced with the same tax issue, and how those choices are informed by a country’s history and culture. There will be a required trip to Amsterdam for a day of lectures—half a day at the IBFD (the best institute of comparative taxation in the world), and half a day at a Dutch law firm. The Amsterdam lectures will be on a Friday. Students will be free to spend the rest of that weekend in the Netherlands, returning to Vienna for classes on Monday morning. The course is targeted to rising second year law students who have not yet taken a tax course. The grade will be determined by one final exam, to be administered on site on the last day of class.
