Unit name | Environmental Law |
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Unit code | LAWD30123 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Dr. Sargoni |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit provides an opportunity for students to obtain an overview of the concepts used by law when tackling environmental issues, the sources of environmental law and the relative merits of deploying different legal tools. Students will consider environmental law primarily in the British and EU contexts; will consider a variety of regulatory approaches and enforcement issues from a theoretical and practical perspective and will look at a number of sectors to ground the various issues in empirical realities.
Although the emphasis is on EU law and national law, some sectors demand an international awareness (climate change law).
By the end of this unit a successful student will be able to:
20x 1 hr lectures and 7x2hrs seminars
1 formative assessment: 1 x 1,500 word coursework. Formative assessments do not count towards final mark and can be optional.
2 x summative assessments: 2 x 2,000 word coursework. Summative assessments do count towards final mark.
The assessments will assess all of the intended learning outcomes for this unit.
Textbook: students can choose either Bell, McGillivray and Pedersen, Environmental Law (8th ed, 2013 OUP) or Fisher, Lange and Scotford, Environmental Law. In addition, for each seminar students will need to read a number of selected academic articles, books' chapters and primary legal sources as listed under each seminar topic. A number of general key environmental law sources are listed below:
International law
Dupuy and Vinuales, International Environmental Law (CUP 2015)
Ebbesson and Okowa (eds.), Environmental Law and Justice in Context (CUP 2009)
EU law
Kramer, EU environmental law (Sweet and Maxwell 2012)
Jans and Vedder, European Environmental Law: After Lisbon (Europa Law Publishing 2012)
Lee, EU Environmental Law, Governance and Decision-Making (2nd ed, Hart 2014)
Domestic law
Macrory, Regulation, enforcement and governance in environmental law (2nd ed, Hart 2014).
Rodgers, The Law of Nature Conservation: property, environment and the limits of law (OUP 2013)