LAWS319-20S1 (C) Semester One 2020

Environmental Law, Conservation and the Public Interest

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2020
End Date: Sunday, 21 June 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 February 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 29 May 2020

Description

The law governing the Department of Conservation and its duties, powers and role, and the Ministry for the Environment, and the Treaty of Waitangi as it bears on these; historic places, public recreational and access issues, fish and game matters, pastoral leases, indigenous forest management, biosecurity, hazardous substances and new organisms and commercial fisheries. This course is offered in alternate years.

The ever-changing Resource Management Act is only one of the statutes, although certainly among the most important, dealing with what we might loosely call environmental issues.  A very considerable body of law deals with the administration and activities of government departments (most notably the Department of Conservation and the Ministry for the Environment) and significant public or semi-public entities such as Fish and Game Councils, the Walking Access Commission, Historic Places Trust and Queen Elizabeth II National Trust.

This course will cover these bodies as well as examining other areas of law where there is a public interest of one sort or another; such as Crown pastoral leases (administered by the Commissioner of Crown Lands), the new Environmental Protection authority, the Biosecurity Act and Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act, and the Forests Amendment Act 1993 (which deals with the management of privately-owned indigenous forests).  The course will also consider the environmental implications of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Learning Outcomes

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.

Restrictions

LAWS304

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

David Round

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 08 May 2020 35%
Final Examination 65%

Textbooks / Resources

There are no set texts.  Various works will be placed on three hour loan in the Library, and a variety of reading materials will be made available on Learn.

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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