LAWS327-20S2 (C) Semester Two 2020

International Environmental Law

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 13 July 2020
End Date: Sunday, 8 November 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 24 July 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 25 September 2020

Description

Challenges and institutional responses to global environmental problems, including global warming. This course is offered in alternate years.

The course will provide an introduction to the institutional and legal framework within which the global community is responding to environmental problems.  It will provide a brief historical and conceptual introduction to international environmental law before focusing on individual regimes which seek to protect the biosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere.  This course will place particular emphasis on cross-cutting issues such as implementation, compliance, equity and environmental justice.  Ultimately, students will be encouraged to assess the extent to which international environmental law is “fit for purpose” in the age of the Anthropocene.

Learning Outcomes

  • On completion of this course students should be able to:
  • Demonstrate a basic and systematic understanding of the elementary principles, processes and institutions of international environmental law;
  • Critically analyse and evaluate international environmental law within a social, political and theoretical context;
  • Demonstrate a conceptual understanding of the theory and practice of international environmental law through a critical evaluation of primary materials and relevant scholarship in the field;
  • Undertake research in the field of international environmental law.

      • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator

For further information see Faculty of Law Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay One 07 Sep 2020 40%
Essay Two 16 Oct 2020 50%
Oral Presentation 10%


The course assessment may be by way of a research essay, a research project and an in-class presentation.

The assessment will be confirmed in the first week of lectures.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $822.00

International fee $4,000.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

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