Faculty of Law, The University of West Indies at Mona

LA34C Caribbean Environmental Law
	1. General Environmental Law is an optional course which will be taught in the second Semester of the second year of the LL.B. programme or in the first or second Semester of the third year of that programme. 2. Course Objective The course is designed to examine the methods by which the law has sought to place limits on human activity having adverse impacts on the environment. In particular, the course explores degradation from common law control to regulatory means established primarily by statute, through international administration organised mainly through conventions. An overriding objective of the course is to facilitate interest for graduate study in the field of Environmental Law. 3. Course Content The topics to be covered in the course may include any or all of the following:- i. Introduction to Environmental Law ii. Constitutional Aspects iii. Regulating the Environmentiv. Environmental Impact Assessment v. Environmental Litigation vi. Alternative Approaches vii. Green Lawyers 4. Method of Teaching This course will be taught 3 hours per week. There will either be two lectures each of one hour's duration; or there will be one seminar of two hour's duration 81 and one Enhancement session of one hour's duration. Students will be notified of the teaching method to be adopted for the Semester in which they register to read the course during the first week of that Semester 5. Method of Assessment This course will be assessed by way of one "take home" assignment and one two-hour examination at the end of the semester in which it is taught. The "take home" assignment will account for 33 1/3% of the final mark and shall be admitted on or before noon of the Monday which falls three weeks before the end of the semester in which the course is taught. In the two-hour examination students will be required to answer two questions from a total of four, one of which may be a compulsory question.