Aims of the course:
The achievement by students of modern constructive, fundamental thinking, worldviews, and systems of specialized knowledge and skills in the field of International Environmental Law, the international legal framework for sustainable development, and global environmental policy.
After successful study of the course, the student will be able to:
- To outline the historic development of International Environmental Law and to identify and describe its basic principles and rules; to review critically strengths and limitations of International Environmental Law; to consider the role of the concept of sustainable development and its impact on International Environmental Law in terms of attempts to reconcile developmental and environmental objectives.
- To work in an international context, to communicate in a foreign language in the professional sphere both orally and in writing, to interpret and analyze legal texts and judgments in the field of International Environmental Law.
- To have acquired understanding of how international environmental agreements are designed, negotiated, and implemented; how economic, environmental, social, and cultural values factor into the design, negotiation, and implementation of international environmental agreements.
- To examine the relevance of human rights and procedural rights to the development and implementation of International Environmental Law.
- To understand how judicial and quasi-judicial bodies adjudicate international environmental disputes; to represent the client’s interests in the domestic and international courts and arbitration.
