Requirements
Students are expected to have prior knowledge of international law. Recommended introductory reading:
- Antonio Cassese: International Law, Oxford University Press, 2001, or
- Carl August Fleischer: Folkerett, Universitetsforlaget, 7th ed., 2000, or
- Ruud & Ulfstein: Innføring i folkerett, Universitetsforlaget, 2002
Students are expected to have a thorough understanding of the following topics based on the literature, lectures and case studies:
- The main characteristics of international environmental law
- The role of the concept “sustainable development” in international environmental law-The main links between human rights and international environmental law
- Main issues related to the Convention on Biological Diversity
- Main issues related to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and the 2001 Marrakesh Accords
- The relationship between the rules of the World Trade Organization and trade related measures taken for environmental protection purposes
- Main issues related to EC environmental lawIn addition, students are expected to have a thorough understanding of the cases examined during the course.
Literature
General topics:Kiss & Shelton: International Environmental Law, 2000, chapter II (The Sources of International Environmental Law), pp. 31-52, 22 pages and III (Origin and Evolution of International Environmental Law), pp. 55-78, 24 pages
Bugge: General Principles of International Law and Environmental Protection, in Basse (ed.): Environmental Law. From International to National Law, 1997, pp. 53-72, 20 pages
Ulfstein & Churchill: Autonomous Institutional Arrangements in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Little-Noticed Phenomenon in International Law, in American Journal of International Law (94/4), 2000, pp. 623-659, 37 pages
Sustainable development and human rights:The World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, 1987, Chapter 2: Towards Sustainable Development, pp. 43-66, 24 pages
Bugge: The Ethics of Sustainable Development – a Challenge to the Legal System, in Basse (ed.): Bæredyktighed – en retsteoretisk begrepsanalyse, 1995, pp. 27-38, 12 pages
Halvorsen: Equality among Unequals in International Environmental Law, 1999, chapter 3 (Sustainable Development), pp. 41-66, 27 pages
Lowe: Sustainable Development and Unsustainable Arguments, in Boyle & Freestone (eds.): International Law and Sustainable Development: past achievements and future challenges, 1999, pp. 19-37, 19 pages
Bugge: Human Rights and Resource Management – An Overview, in Berge & Stenseth (eds.): Law and the Governance of Renewable Resources , 1998, pp. 93-115, 23 pages
Biodiversity:Burhenne-Guilmin & Casey-Lefkowitz: The New Law of Biodiversity, in Yearbook of International Environmental Law, 1992, pp. 43-59, 17 pages
Boyle: The Rio Convention on Biological Diversity, in Bowman & Redgwell (ed.): International Law and Conservation of Biological Diversity, 1996, pp. 33-49, 17 pages
Wolfrum: The Protection and Management of Biological Diversity, in Morrison & Wolfrum (ed.): International, Regional and National Environmental Law, 2000, pp. 355-372, 18 pages
Climate Change:Farhana Yamin: The Kyoto Protocol: Origins, Assessment and Future Challenges, in Review of European Community & International Environmental Law, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1998, pp. 113-27, 15 pages
Jacob Werksman: Compliance and the Kyoto Protocol: Builiding a Backbone into a “Flexible” Regime, in Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Vol. 9, 1998, pp. 48-101, 54 pages
Trade and Environment:Hudec: The Relationship of International Environmental Law to International Economic Law, i Morrison & Wolfrum, ed.: International, Regional and National Environmental Law, 2000, pp. 133-166, 34 pages
OECD: Trade Measures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Synthesis Report of Three Case Studies, OECD Doc. COM/ENV/TD(98)127/FINAL, pp. 4-39, 36 pages
EC environmental law:Jans: European Environmental Law, 2000, chapter 1, pp. 3-66, 64 pages
Bound copies of the above mentioned articles are available for purchase at the book store Gnist Akademika.“International Environmental Law 1” and “ International Environmental Law 2”