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 | Professor. Pieraccini |
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
Two summative essays of 2000 words each counting 50% of the final mark.
Students will be required to submit one formative essay.
The summative essays are designed to assess both whether students were able to critically engage with conceptual issues and to understand and critically think about legal and regulatory tools and sectors studied throughout the module.
The assessments will assess all of the intended learning outcomes for this unit.
Textbook: Bell, McGillivray and Pedersen, Environmental Law (8th ed OUP). In addition, for each seminar students will need to read a number of selected academic articles, books' chapters and primary legal sources.