Preemption Instructor Holly Doremus. This introductory course is designed to explore fundamental legal and policy issues in environmental law. Through examination of environmental common law and key federal environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, and Clean Water Act, it exposes students to the major challenges to environmental law and the principal approaches to meeting those challenges, including litigation, command and control regulation, technology forcing, market incentives, and information disclosure requirements. With the addition of cross-cutting topics such as risk assessment and environmental federalism, it also gives students a grounding in how choices about regulatory standards and levels of regulatory authority are made. http://www.law.berkeley.edu/students/curricularprograms/envirolaw/index.html

"Dabke," a dance "Sawt Al-Hurriyah" (The Voice of Freedom), a song by Amir Eid "Iraadat Al-Hayah" (The Will to Live), a poem by Tunisian poet Abu Al-Qasem Al-Shaabi The performance is inspired by the Arab Spring and includes dance, song and poetry about freedom and self-determination.

Introduction to Near Eastern Art and Archaeology

Cal Performances' Director Matías Tarnopolsky talks with Gustavo Dudamel, the Music Director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and Jose Antonio Abreu, founder of El Sistema, about the importance of music education for children. This discussion was a segment of Cal Performances' Reaching for the Stars: A Forum on Music Education held on the campus of UC Berkeley November 28 & 29, 2012. It was part of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Orchestra Residency; two performances were given by the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela on November 29 & 30, 2012.