Abstract
The idea of interdisciplinary legal studies is not altogether unfamiliar, but formal courses relating aspects of the law to geology are seldom available to the undergradute liberal-arts student, students of geology or geological engineering. A formal introduction to legal aspects of geology can be accomplished either through some recasting of existing geology courses or by introducing new courses that focus on the most frequent circumstances that give rise to litigation involving geology. An upper-level undergraduate seminar at Lawrence University on legal aspects of geology concentrates on water-rights law, mineral law, and legal aspects of landslides, subsidence, sedimentation, erosion, and submergence. The seminar takes a case-history approach and employs the Socratic method. Students are also confronted with hypothetical problems and participate in a group project related to current legal issues.
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