Master
2024/2025
International Environmental Law & Governance
Type:
Compulsory course (Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development)
Area of studies:
Economics
Delivered by:
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
When:
2 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course focuses on binding and non-binding instruments applied at international level to govern global commons. The course aims as well to provide students with analysis of cases decided in international courts in regard to global environmental problems. Such environmental problems as air and water pollution, climate change, loss of biodiversity, land degradation, deforestation, nuclear pollution are within the scope of the course. Throughout the course, attention will be focused on interconnections between international environmental law and WTO law. The environmental problems are analyzed through legal and economic methods.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- knows the structure of international law, it's sources and hierarchy of international law norms
- knows the structure of international environmental law, it's sources and hierarchy of international law norms
- uses specific terms and sources of the international environmental law
- applies the skills to analyse and solve cases and controversies in the sphere of International environmentallaw
- Analyzes the role of international trade in global environmental challenges
Course Contents
- Introduction to International Environmental Law (IEnvL); Development of IEnvL
- Sources and Principles of IEnvL
- State Responsibility and the Environment
- Trade, Development and Environment
- Ozone Depletion and Climate Change
- Protection of the Environment in Times of Armed Conflict
- Conservation and Biological Diversity
- Global governance: A theoretical introduction
- Global environmental governance: Concepts and approaches
- The roots and evolution of environmental governance
- Who and how governs the environment: Actors and regimes
- The governance of climate change
Assessment Elements
- Active in-class participation in Law classes
- Reading Response
- Written exam
- Activity (including one in-class presentation) - governance part
- Essay
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 2nd module0.1 * Active in-class participation in Law classes + 0.3 * Activity (including one in-class presentation) - governance part + 0.1 * Essay + 0.2 * Reading Response + 0.3 * Written exam
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- International environmental law and economics, Rao, P. K., 2002
- Research handbook on climate change and trade law, , 2016
- Soft law in public international law: a pragmatic or a principled choice? Comparing the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. (2018). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77522-7_13
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Research handbook on international energy law, , 2014