LAWS2274 Climate Law

Later Year Course

Offered By	Law
Academic Career	Undergraduate
Course Subject	Laws
Offered in	Second Semester, 2009 and Second Semester, 2010
Unit Value	6 units
Course Description	This course provides an overview of the rapidly developing field of domestic and international climate law. It examines the current state of the law. It also offers opportunities to critically discuss the legal and policy issues linked with the future course of climate law, both domestically and internationally. Although the emphasis is on domestic Australian climate law (in order to avoid overlap with international enrivonmental law (LAWS2253)), the course will provide opportunities for comparative analysis of the emerging law within other jurisdictions including EU and EU member states, USA, Canada, NZ and Japan.
Learning Outcomes	At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to: show familiarity with fundamental terminology of international and domestic climate law demonstrate an understanding of the core components of international climate law demonstrate an understanding of the main options for domestic climate law explain the interaction between different policy and legal instruments within Australian domestic climate law demonstrate an ability to apply the emerging principles of climate law from relevant cases and statutes to a given set of hypothetical facts, and to present an argument comment critically on the outcome and reasoning in cases studied during the course and identify the considerations of policy evident within them demonstrate an ability to research and write in detail about specific issues within the field of climate law by critically analyzing relevant primary and secondary materials show familiarity with on-line and traditional sources concerning both international and domestic climate law.
Indicative Assessment	The proposed means of assesment for this course will involve: a mid-semester research note on a key statute or case, key document or report - 15% mid semester short answer test - 25% research essay (on a topic of the student's choice) - 40% seminar presentation (10 minutes), course attendance and participation - 10% More information about the means of assesment, including the relationship between the assesment and the learning outcomes of the course will be available on the course home page by the first week of semester.
Areas of Interest	Law
Requisite Statement	Completed or completing 30 units of 1000 level LAWS courses (requisite 001016) Incompatible with LAWS2216 Environmental Law Elective
Recommended Courses	LAWS2215 Environmental Law
Preliminary Reading	Bonyhady & Christoff (eds) 'Climate Law in Australia' (Federation Press 2007) The Garnaut Review (Cambridge University Press 2008) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Kyoto Protocol to UNFCCC Yamin and Depledge 'The International Climate Change Regime: A guide to rules, institutions and procedures' (Cambridge Press 2004)
Academic Contact	James Prest

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