Module Identifier | LAM1920 | ||
Module Title | INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Paul K Street | ||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | ||
Next year offered | N/A | ||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 2 hours | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Seminar Presentation: | 20% |
Semester Assessment | Essay: Students may choose one of the following 1. 2 x 2500-3000 word essays 2. 1 x 5000-6000 word essay | 80% | |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmission of failed coursework | ||
Further details | http://users.aber.ac.uk/pes/ |
have gained a comprehensive body of knowledge concerning the legal rules relating to international trade and the environment;
be able to demonstrate their ability to critically analyse the substance, structures and application of the regulation of international trade and environmental law;
be able to situate their knowledge of the rules and principles of law as it applies to international trade and the environment within a wider social theoretical and jurisprudential context;
be able to situate the law relating to international trade and the environment within its appropriate historical, social, economic and political context drawing on comparative and international perspectives;
be able to situate the law relating to international trade and the environment within current debates on sustainable development and globalisation
be able to assess some of the current challenges that face the law relating to international trade and the environment based on their knowledge of existing research and literature;
have undertaken an appropriate degree of sustained and systematic research that identifies concerns arising from a number of topics, or line of enquiries in relation to international trade and the environment;
have developed the skills necessary to carry out independent research, using a variety of sources (e.g. international legal instruments, cases, journals, newspapers and electronic information sources);
developed coherence and clarity in written and oral presentations that allows them to articulate and more effectively communicate to others, both the extent of the knowledge they have acquired, and their critically evaluative understanding of that knowledge.
The course locates and critically analyses the linkages between international trade and the environment, within the context of current debates on sustainable development and globalization. Drawing on a variety of legal and social theoretical sources, as well as comparative materials and case studies drawn from countries in both the two thirds and one third worlds, students will consider the extent to which the international community in general and international institutions such as the WTO, FAO, and World Bank in particular, have responded to a number of specific environmental issues. The course will assess the impact that the policies and practices of international institutions are having on the environment and economies of countries within the global trading system, while at the same time considering the efficacy of possible reforms to these institutions within the current system of global governance. The course also considers the environmental and economic consequences and tensions that FDI brings to those in the two-thirds world, while considering the extent to which it is possible to regulate the activities of multi-national companies within the international trading system.
I Globalisation and Risk
II Development 1 ? Law and Development
III Development 2 - Sustainable Development
IV The WTO and the Environment
V Trade in GMOs and Biodiversity
VI Agriculture, Food Security and The Environment
VII TNCs, FDI and The Environment