Technology
and Law Program
The
Technology and Law (T&L) Program offers research opportunities and graduate-level
courses focusing on the interface of law and technology. Research activities
include the design and evaluation of policies that
- encourage technological
change for preventing chemical pollution through regulation, liability,
and economic incentives;
- promote environmental justice
by involving communities in governmental decisions that affect their
health, safety, and environment; and
- address the effects of globalization
on sustainability.
A five-year project on Public
Participation in Contaminated Communities - undertaken for the Environmental
Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry - concluded with a 1998 invited conference
at MIT.
T&L offers a two-semester sequence
in Environmental Law and Policy and a one-semester course in Law, Technology,
and Public Policy, a core subject in the Technology and Policy Program.
Sustainability, Trade, and Environment, a course offered through both
the Sloan School of Management and TPP, explores the many dimensions of
sustainability and the use of political and legal national, multinational,
and international instruments to further sustainable development.
Outreach
Chemical Exposures: Low
Levels and High Stakes, N. A. Ashford and C. S. Miller, Second Edition,
John Wiley Press, 1998.
Technology, Law and the
Working Environment, N.A. Ashford and C.C. Caldart, Second Edition,
Island Press, 1996.
"The Influence of Information-based
Initiatives and Negotiated Environmental Agreements on Technological Change,"
N. A. Ashford in Voluntary Approaches in Environmental Policy,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
"A Conceptual Framework For
the Use of the Precautionary Principle in Environmental Law," N. A. Ashford
in The Precautionary Principle, Island Press, 1999.
"Negotiation as a Means of
Developing and Implementing Environmental and Occupational Health and
Safety Policy," Charles C. Caldart and Nicholas A. Ashford, Harvard
Environmental Law Review, 23(1):141-202, 1999.
Faculty
and staff
Nicholas
A. Ashford, Director
Professor of Technology and Policy, School of Engineering
Charles C. Caldart, Lecturer
in Civil Engineering
Chris Mascara, Administrative
Assistant
Sponsors
Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
Program Links: CMP
| Ford-MIT
| IMVP | LAI
| LARA | LSI
| MSL | MITIQ
| T&L
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