LAWS327-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013

International Environmental Law

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2013
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 19 May 2013

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

Restrictions

LAWS347 (2001-2004), ILAP612, ILAP637

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Geoffrey Leane

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 1 28 Mar 2013 45%
Essay 2 31 May 2013 50%
Attendance 5%

Course links

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $682.00

International fee $3,263.00

* 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 .

All LAWS327 Occurrences

  • LAWS327-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013