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LAWS8055 - Environmental Law and Sustainable Development

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Project description

This unit introduces students to the specialised and burgeoning area of environmental law on both the national and international stage. It traces the historical foundations of environmental regulation and evaluates the effectiveness of current environmental law in the context of ongoing and emerging challenges. The unit adopts a multidisciplinary perspective to help augment understanding of the complexity of environmental challenges and enhance the analysis of relevant legislation and case law. Specific topics include regulating the relationship between environment and development, principles underlying environmental regulation and the implementation of environmental standards through law and policy. Case studies will be used over the course of the unit to provide updates with current developments in environmental law.

Year 2022

Location Australia

Organization Macquarie University

Project aims

Project outcome

1. Identify and critique key ethical and interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment and the relevance of different aspects of jurisprudential and legal theory that underlie environmental law including ecologically sustainable development and environmental justice 2. Describe and analyse the history of environmental law Australia all levels of government, the influence of international law, the role contextual factors that has motivated change and the different range of legal systems relevant to that have contributed to environmental regulation 3. Critically analyse and evaluate different forms of environmental regulation, legal and otherwise, and the regulatory tools available, the application of such regulation to the management of both discrete and global environmental challenges 4. Identify, interpret the most important cases and statutory regimes in Australian environmental law and analyse the interpretation and application of those regimes in the context of leading judicial decisions 5. Identify and analyse the major challenges facing environmental law in Australia and explain, taking into consideration past successes/failures, whether existing law and policy taking into and the future of environmental change in the Anthropocene epoch and where necessary, recommendations for law and policy reform.