Undergraduate Course: Global Environmental Law (LAWS10168)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Law |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will introduce students to the unique features and challenges of environmental regulation. It will explore the creation of complex interactions and cross-fertilisation between different levels of environmental regulation, between different specialised areas of environmental law, as well as between environmental law and other areas of law (trade, development, investment, agriculture, human rights). In doing so, it will familiarise students in particular with the mutual interactions between international environmental law and EU environmental law. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Previous knowledge of EU and International Law |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: 25 |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Class Delivery Information |
The first seminar will be held on Wednesday 15th January 2014 at 9.00 - 10.50 in Seminar Room 2.11, Appleton Tower. |
| Course Start Date |
13/01/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:30 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. 1. Knowledge and Sources of Law:
- Advanced knowledge of international law and EU law;
- Specialized knowledge of environmental regulation and governance at different levels;
- Critical understanding of current academic and policy debates on the legal dimension of global environmental challenges;
- Critical understanding of the implications arising from the interaction between EU and international environmental law.
2. 2. Subject-specific Skills:
- The further development of an ability to analyse, evaluate and interpret legal materials;
- The further development of an ability to identify the legal issue under discussion;
- An advanced approach to addressing critically complex legal questions;
- The further development of an ability to provide evidence for assertions and in argument, in particular appropriate legal authority;
- The further development of an ability to critique possible avenues for legal development, and to assess their merits.
3. 3. General Transferable Intellectual Skills:
- complex evaluative and critical reasoning;
- creative thinking;
- an ability to apply knowledge outcomes to complex questions in written and oral form;
- an advanced ability to present arguments for and against a proposition in a dispassionate manner; and
- an advanced ability to use electronic legal and other resources.
4. 4. Key Personal Skills:
- advanced written communication, including the ability to compose written work in conformity with a prescribed format;
- oral communication skills developed in seminar discussions;
- an appreciation of different dynamics within a group and respect for the opinions of other people even if there is disagreement.
5. 5. Subject-specific Legal and Ethical Values:
- ability to exercise independent judgement and operate in relative autonomy for the purpose of seminar preparation and production of written work;
- ability to identify key legal issues and articulate legal standards, on the basis of caselaw and policy documents, destined to resolve these issues.
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Assessment Information
| 100% exam |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
The course will cover a range of issues including:
- The concept of global environmental law
- The development of international environmental law
- Key issues in international biodiversity law
- Key issues in international climate change law
- Compliance with international environmental law
- International organizations and international environmental law
- Business and international environmental law
- The development of EU environmental law
- Enforcement of EU environmental law
- Key issues in EU biodiversity law
- Key issues in EU climate change law
- The EU as a global environmental actor
- Introduction to comparative environmental law |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
1 x 2 hour seminar per week |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Apolline Roger
Tel:
Email: Apolline.Roger@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Heather Haig
Tel: (0131 6)50 2053
Email: Heather.Haig@ed.ac.uk |
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