The general aims of this course are to raise awareness of students with respect to global and regional environmental law issues and to enhance critical thinking with respect to environmental law making, its implementation and enforcement on a global and regional level. The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the nature of International Environmental Law and its main sources, the law of treaties and soft law instruments, the international environmental legal system and its main actors: states, international organisations and non-government organisations, the emergence and evolution of environmental principles which are shaping international environmental law and policy as well as ethics, the international and regional environmental agreements and organisations to which Pacific Island Countries have become contracting Parties and how these influence domestic legal reform.
- Lecturer: Nicholas Halter
- Lecturer: Katharina Serrano