The seminar will encourage on active participation of students during the sessions. Environmental Governance questions will be placed in the present context of ecological and climate emergency. The course will focus also on discussions about current international environmental events and strategique meta-environmental affairs.
Class sessions will be divided between discussion of Law cases and the discussion of conceptual topics that cut across specific cases.
The final purpose of the course is to offer a learning on the way the new dynamics emerging in environmental governance are changing the rules. In a first step, this course will offer an overview of general aspects of Environmental Governance playing special attention to Institutions, Actors, International Legal instruments in the negotiation process. In a second step, it will highlight emerging hybrid modes of Governance. In a third step, the course proposes tools for a critical analysis of present Environmental Governance.
The course promotes "active" learning, individually and in group dynamics, in order to get students used to being actors in environmental governance for a better understanding of current environmental issues and types of resolution.
Method :
• The class will be divided into groups in order to promote a collaborative work and a collective reflexion.
• Active discussion of readings given in advance in a cross groups dynamique.
• Together, through the semester, we will prepare the resolution of an innovative, original and specific environmental case before the International Court of Justice.
ACCESS TO MATERIALS: MOODLE
• For each session, doctrinal and jurisprudential material will be made available on the Moodle.
COURSE OUTLINE
Session 1: Introducing the seminar.
Session 2: International Environmental Governance: Main points
Session 3: International Environmental Governance. Special point on international and regional judicial actors
Session 4: Principles of Environmental Governance applied to Law Cases (1)
Session 5: Principles of Environmental Governance applied to Law Cases (2)
Session 6: Environmental international diplomacy and negociations: Special point about climate change (1)
Session 7: Environmental international diplomacy and negociations: Special point about climate change (2)
Session 8: Major difficulties & Gaps in Global Environmental Governance
Session 9: Environmental litigation: Global North & Global South. Case studies
Session 10: Emerging trends on Environmental Litigation.
Session 11: Human Rights, Future Generations & Environmental Governance
Session 12: Mock Trial & Conclusions of the Seminar
Marta TORRE-SCHAUB
Séminaire
English
• Basic and general knowledge of Global politics and International Law.
• Some knowledge of general Environmental Law is required
• Interest in International politics and Governance
• Openness to new methodologies
Spring 2023-2024
Assessment:
• Participation of groups during all semester (60% of the final note) :
- Preparing and discussing readings
- Preparing the final Mock Trial
• Final group essay presenting in writing the arguments and conclusions of the mock trial : (40% of the final note)
Pedagogical and feedback format:
• Seminar taught in English
• Interactive format encouraging students to engage and participate in the course
• Philippe Sands, Principles of International Environmental Law, Cambridge University Press 2018
• Lavanya Rajamani (ed.), Jacqueline Peel (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (2nd edn), 2021 https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198849155.001.0001 Oxford University Press
• Fitzmaurice, Malgosia ; Wong, Meagan S ; Crampin, Joseph International Environmental Law: Text, Cases and Materials, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. 2022