Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

Module Identifier
LAM6010
Module Title
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Academic Year
2011/2012
Co-ordinator
Mrs Marion I Arnold
Semester
Available all semesters
Other Staff
 

Course Delivery

 

Assessment

Assessment Type Assessment length / details Proportion

Brief description

The significance of international law in the environmental field has increased considerably following the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. This module explores the gradual development of principles of international environmental law and considers how these are applied in relation to particular environmental issues such as atmospheric pollution and the conservation of biological diversity. The tensions between environmental requirements and other aspects of international legal relations, notably with respect to trade, are also considered. Overall, the module invites the student to examine the significance of the environment in the international playing field and the significance of international agreements for the protection of the global, regional and local environment.

Reading List

Recommended Text
Birnie, Patricia International Law and the Environment Document 15. Read: pp. 139-149 on State Responsibility in International Law and pp. 154-157 on Standing to Bring Claims edition 2r.e. Oxf.U.P. Primo search Brown, E.D. Sea Bed Energy and Mineral Resources and the Law of the Sea Document 35. Read: Brown The UN Convention Regime: II. Development of Resources of the Area (1986) volume 2. Not available online. Print copies will be supplied. Graham & Trotman Primo search Churchill, R.R. International Law and Global Climate Change Document 18. Read: Freestone The Precautionary Principle (1991) Graham & Trotman Primo search Churchill, R.R. International Law and Global Climate Change Document 24. Read: Boyle International Law and the Protection of the Global Atmosphere: Concepts, Categories and Principles (1991) Graham & Trotman Primo search Churchill, R.R. International Law and Global Climate Change Document 28. Read: Barrett The Negotiation and Drafting of the Climate Change Convention Graham & Trotman Primo search Handl, Gunther Yearbook of international environmental law Document 22. Read: Supanich The Legal Basis of Intergenerational Responsibility: An Alternative View - the Sense of Intergenerational Identity (vol 3) edition 1992 part pages Graham and Trotman Primo search Handl, Gunther Yearbook of international environmental law Document 34. Read: pp.3-51 - Freestone and Makuch The New International Environmental Law of Fisheries: The 1995 United Nations Straddling Stocks Agreement vol. 7 (1996) edition vol. 7 Clarendon Press Primo search Handl, Gunther Yearbook of international environmental law Document 41. Read: pp.3-33 - Handl Environmental Security and Global Change: The Challenge to International Law (vol.1) edition Vol. 1 (1991) Graham & Trotman Primo search Kiss, Alexandre-Charles International Environmental Law Document 12. Read: pp. 55-78 - International Institutional Cooperation and pp. 9-31 - Object and Nature of International Law edition 2r.e. University P.of Colorado Primo search Sands, Philippe Principles of International Environmental Law Document 20. Read: pp. 141-180 on compliance; pp. 198-208 on sustainable development and pp. 259-271 on ozone depletion. Manchester U.P. Primo search Susskind, Lawrence Environmental Diplomacy Document 7. Read: Susskind The Weaknesses of the Existing Environmental Treaty-making System Oxf.U.P.(N.Y.) Primo search Environmental Change and International Law Document 2. Read: pp. 7-12 - Brown Weiss The Development of International Environmental Law (1992) United Nations University P. Primo search Environmental Change and International Law Document 21. Read: Brown Weiss Intergenerational Equity: A Legal Framework for Global Environmental Change United Nations University P. Primo search Environmental Change and International Law Document 6. Read: Szasz International Norm-making (1992) United Nations University P. Primo search Greening International Institutions Document 11. Read: Fitzpatrick The United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council (1996) Earthscan Publications Primo search Greening International Institutions Document 13. Read: French The Role of Non-State Actors (1998) Earthscan Publications Primo search Greening International Institutions Document 16. Read: Porras The Rio Declaration: A New Basis for International Cooperation (1993) Earthscan Publications Primo search International Law and the Conservation of Biological Diversity Document 37. Read: Boyle The Rio Convention on Biological Diversity (1996). Book not available in UWA libraries. It is available for reference use in the National Library of Wales. Kluwer Law International Primo search Interpreting the Precautionary Principle Document 19. Read: Cameron The Status of the Precautionary Principle in International Law (1994) Earthscan Publications Primo search American journal of international law http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=american+journal+of+international+law&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20 Document 1. Read: Extracts from the Trail Smelter Arbitration. 33 AJIL (1939), 182 and 35 AJIL (1941), 684 British yearbook of international law http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=british+yearbook+of+international+law&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20 Document 39. Read: pp.1-63 - Jennings The Role of the International Court of Justice (1997) Convention on Biological Diversity http://www.biodiv.org/ Document 4. International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/toc.php?mode=byjournal&level=2&values=International+Journal+of+Marine+and+Coastal+Law,+The Document 33. Read: Van Dyke Modifying the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention: New Initiatives on Governance of High Seas Fisheries Resources: the Straddling Stocks Negotiation. International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (1995) 10(2) 219 International and comparative law quarterly http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=international+and+comparative+law+quarterly&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20 Document 10. Read: Okowa Case concerning the Gabckova-Nagymoras Project (Hungary/Slovakia) International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1998) 47, 688-697 ISBN No. 0020 5893 International and comparative law quarterly http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=international+and+comparative+law+quarterly&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20 Document 9. Read: Boyle Some Reflections on the Relationship of Treaties and Soft Law International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1994) 48, 901-913 International legal materials http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=international+legal+materials&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20 Document 3. Read: Extracts from Judgment in Case concerning the Gabckova-Nagymoras Project, including Separate Opinion of V. P. Weeramantry, 37 ILM (1998) 162 Journal of environmental law http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=journal+of+environmental+law&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20 Document 17. Read: McIntyre and Mosedale The Precautionary Principle as a Norm of Customary International Law Journal of Environmental Law (1994) 9(2) 221-241 Journal of environmental law http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=journal+of+environmental+law&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20 Document 29. Read: French 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Journal of Environmental Law (1998) 10(2) 227-239 Journal of environmental law http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=journal+of+environmental+law&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20 Document 38. Read: Boyle Saving the World? Implementation and Enforcement of International Environmental Law through International Institutions Journal of Environmental Law (1991) 3(2) 229-245 Journal of environmental law http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=journal+of+environmental+law&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20 Science http://voyager.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=science&SL=None&Search_Code=JALL&CNT=20 Document 23. Read: Hardin The Tragedy of the Commons (1968) 162 Science 3859 The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development http://www.unep.org/unep/rio.htm Document 14 United Nations Convention on the law of the sea http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm Document 25. Read: Zuleto Introduction from the introductory material to the Law of the Sea Convention (1983) United Nations United Nations Convention on the law of the sea http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm Document 26. Read: Koh A Constitution for the Oceans from the introductory material to the Law of the Sea Convention (1983) United Nations United Nations Convention on the law of the sea http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm Document 27. Read: UNCLOS Part XII Protection and Preservation of the Marine Environment United Nations Convention on the law of the sea http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm Document 30. Read: UNCLOS Part V Exclusive Economic Zone United Nations Convention on the law of the sea http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm Document 31. Read: UNCLOS Part VII High Seas Articles 116-119 United Nations Convention on the law of the sea http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm Document 32. Read: Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, Parts I and II United Nations Convention on the law of the sea http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm Document 36. Read: Annex to the Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea United Nations Convention on the law of the sea http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm Document 40. Read: UNCLOS Part XV Settlement of Disputes and Annexes VII and VIII United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change http://unfccc.int/ Document 5. Reference Text
Birnie, Patricia International Law and the Environment Introductory Readings edition 2r.e. Oxf.U.P. Primo search Sands, Philippe Principles of International Environmental Law Introductory Readings Manchester U.P. Primo search Supplementary Text
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Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 7