Environmental Law and Policy

LA2902 - Environmental Law and Policy

The subject introduces students to the fundamentals of the study of law and of the nature of international, national and state environmental law. The subject then examines the application of environmental law in Australia as an instrument for enforcing environmental regulation, promoting ecologically sustainable development, resource management and planning, heritage governance and environmental conservation and protection.

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[Anti-requisite] EV2002 A EV3206 A EV5201 A LA2902

[Anti-requisite] EV2002 A EV3206 A EV5201 A LA2902 Offerings: All

LA5902 - Environmental Law and Policy

To enable students to analyse and critique environmental law and policy in the context of the contemporary global and local environmental outlook

To provide students with a basic introduction to legal source materials, modes of legal reasoning, legal terminology and concepts and categories of law

To enable students to reflect critically on how and why the principles of environmental law and policy have evolved

To enable students to develop an understanding of the architecture of environmental law systems and of the nature and form of norms and principles of international, Australian federal and selected state environmental laws and policies

To enable students to critique the adequacy of current law and policy and to make recommendations on how the law should evolve