LAWS376-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012

Special Topic: Resource Management Act 1991: Selected Issues

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2012
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 March 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 20 May 2012

Description

Special Topic: Resource Management Act 1991: Selected Issues

This course is offered every year in Semester One.  It is designed for students wishing to study selected issues in resource management law and sustainability.  The course focuses on the Resource Management Act 1991, and investigates various statutory provisions in this Act as they relate to contemporary issues.  Current issues include contentious topics such as water rights; wind farms; carbon credits; forestry; reverse sensitivity covenants; and oil and gas.  The Course Supervisor reserves the right to choose the most significant issues that arise in the year the course is taught.

The effect of the current amendments of the Resource Management Act 1991 will also be studied, as will the consultation requirements under the Act.  It is hoped that a practitioner, skilled in resource management issues, will also be involved in the teaching.

Prerequisites

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

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Elizabeth Toomey

There will also be guest speakers on special topics.

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 30 Mar 2012 50%
Take Home Test 29 May 2012 50%


No final examination - the course is 100% internally assessed.  The assessment will be confirmed in the first week of lectures.

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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