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Postgraduate study in Laws:

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Course outline

International environmental law
Section A: General aspects of international environmental
law 1
· Introduction
· Development and sources of international environmental law
· Jurisdictional and institutional aspects of environmental governance
· General principles of international environmental law
· Sustainable development
Section B: General aspects of international environmental
law 2
· State responsibility for environmental damage
· Civil liability regimes
· Environmental dispute resolution
· Human right and the environment
Section C: Particular subjects of international environmental law 1
· Protection of the marine environment
· General principles of conservation and biological diversity
· Management of hazardous substances and wastes
· Climate change protection
· Protection of the ozone layer
Section D: Particular subjects of international environmental law 2
· Trade and environment
· Financial resources, technology and intellectual property
· War and armed conflict in relation to the environment
· Nuclear energy and the environment
· Freshwater resources
· Transboundary air pollution
· Polar regions
Sequence:
Section A, followed by section B, and then either section C or D.
Textbook:
Philippe Sands, Principles of International Environmental Law 2nd ed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003,      ISBN: 9780521521062