LAWS327-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012

International Environmental Law

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 9 July 2012
End Date: Sunday, 11 November 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 22 July 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 7 October 2012

Description

Challenges and institutional responses to global environmental problems, including global warming.

The course will be an introduction to the institutional and legal framework within which the global community is responding to environmental problems.  It will include discussion of the international legal and political contexts within which the problems and policy responses are evolving, as well as the specific regulatory regimes for managing areas of concern.

Particular attention will be paid to the evolving climate change regime as being characteristic of international environmental law challenges and approaches.

Prerequisites

(i) LAWS101; and (ii) LAWS110 from 2013

Restrictions

LAWS347 (2001-2004), ILAP612, ILAP637

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Geoffrey Leane

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 1 17 Aug 2012 45%
Essay 2 12 Oct 2012 50%
Attendance 5%

Course links

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $655.00

International fee $3,138.00

* 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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