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Course textbook (5 items)The textbook recommended for the module which students are expected to acquire is oneof the following, either:

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., Redgwell,Catherine, 2009

Book | Core (Must Read)

Principles of international environmental law - Sands, Philippe, Peel, Jacqueline, FabraAguilar, Adriana, MacKenzie, Ruth, 2012

Book | Core (Must Read)

International environmental law - Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Jorge E. Viñuales, 2018Book | Core (Must Read)

International environmental law - Beyerlin, Ulrich, Marauhn, Thilo, 2011Book | Core (Must Read)

Notes:

1. Birnie/Boyle/Redgwell (2009) and Sands/Peel(2012) offer very comprehensive, detailedanalysis of the subject and are regarded as internationally acclaimed authorities.Dupuy/Vinuales (2015) has the advantage of being recently published whilstBeyerlin/Marauhn (2011) offers a somewhat briefer introduction to the legal framework.

2. Whilst all of the above-mentioned books also serve as textbooks for the spring termmodule LW884 International Environmental Law – Substantive Legal Aspects the first twoare especially recommended in light of their more indepth analysis (Birnie/Boyle/Redgwell(2009) and Sands/Peel (2012)

Other selected key reference books: (7 items)The following titles are suggested key (initial) reference points for further research intotopic areas considered in this module

The Oxford handbook of international environmental law -Brunnee, Jutta, Bodansky, Daniel, Hey, Ellen, 2007

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013

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Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The art and craft of international environmental law - Bodansky, Daniel, 2010Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International environmental law - Kiss, Alexandre Charles, Shelton, Dinah, 2004Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International environmental law: fairness, effectiveness, and world order - Louka, Elli,MyiLibrary, 2006

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International environmental law and policy - Hunter, David, Salzman, James, Zaelke,Durwood, 2011

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Earthscan reader on international trade and sustainable development - KevinGallagher, Jacob Werksman, Earthscan, 2002

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

International legal materials (1 items)

Documents in international environmental law - Sands, Philippe, Galizzi, Paolo, 2004Book | A compendium of international environmental legal materials, but this is rather

expensive and is not expected to be acquired by students.

Other selected reference materials (22 items)

General environmental law texts and commentaries (8 items)

Introduction to international environmental law - Timo Koivurova, 2013Book

Introduction to international environmental law - Timo Koivurova, 2014Book

Environmental law - Stuart Bell, Donald McGillivray, Ole Pedersen, Donald McGillivray,2013

Book

Environmental protection, law and policy: text and materials - Holder, Jane, Lee, Maria,MyiLibrary, 2007

Book

Environmental law - John F. McEldowney, Sharron McEldowney, 2010Book | This is a particular useful clear introduction for the non-lawyer to environmental

legal issue

Sourcebook on environmental law - Sunkin, Maurice, Ong, David M., Wight, Robert, 2002Book

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Wolf and Stanley on environmental law - Susan Wolf, Neil Stanley, 2013Book

Wolf and Stanley on environmental law - Susan Wolf, Neil Stanley, 2014Book

Theoretical and general policy related publications (6 items)

The philosophical foundations of environmental law: property, rights and nature - Coyle,Sean, 2004

Book

Green political thought - Dobson, Andrew, MyiLibrary, 2007Book

International environmental law, policy and ethics - Gillespie, Alexander, 1997Book

Environmental policy: implementation and enforcement - Hawke, Neil, 2002Book

Regulating pollution: a UK and EC perspective - Hilson, Chris, 2000Book

New instruments of environmental governance?: national experiences and prospects -Jordan, Andrew, Wurzel,Rudiger, Zito, Anthony R., 2003

Book

Selected EU reference works (8 items)

EU environmental law - LudwigKramer, 2016

Book

European Union environmental law: an introduction to key selected issues - Peter G. G.Davies, 2004

Book

European environmental law: after Lisbon - J. H. Jans, Hans Vedder, 2011Book

Casebook on EU environmental law -Kramer, Ludwig, MyiLibrary, 2002

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The effectiveness of European Union environmental policy - Grant, Wyn, Matthews,Duncan, Newell, Peter, 2000

Book

Enforcement of European Union environmental law: legal issues and challenges - MartinHedemann-Robinson, 2015

Book

EU environmental law, governance and decision-making - Maria Lee, 2014Book

Where highly specialised subject areas are concerned students shall be referred asappropriate to other library texts and articles for further reading. Further references forreading on international environmental law may be found in chapter 1 of Sands' textbook.

Journals (16 items)

American Journal of International LawJournal

Colorado journal of international environmental law and policyJournal

Ecology Law QuarterlyJournal

Environmental policy and lawJournal

Environmental LiabilityJournal

European energy and environmental law reviewJournal

European Journal of International LawJournal

Fordham environmental law journalJournal

Fordham environmental law reviewJournal

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Georgetown International Environmental Law ReviewJournal

International and Comparative Law QuarterlyJournal

International Trade Law and RegulationJournal

Journal of Environmental LawJournal

Review of European Comparative and International Environmental LawJournal

Yearbook of European Environmental LawJournal

Yearbook of International Environmental LawJournal

Internet sources (7 items)A wealth of important official international documents on environmental policy and law isavailable free on the internet. Definitive information on international legal developmentsare available on the principal official sites of relevant international organizations, includingthe United Nations (Environment Programme), World Trade Organisation, European Unionand Council of Europe.

International internet sites (6 items)

United NationsWebsite

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - Home page --Website

WTOWebsite

International Maritime OrganizationWebsite

FAO: FAO HomeWebsite

OECDWebsite

European internet sites (1 items)The internet sites of the EU and Council of Europe are of particular interest.

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EUROPEAN UNION

Europa – The European Union's official web-site: http://europa.eu/

This is the gateway to a vast reserve of information on the EU. Apart from full texts of theEU's founding treaties and secondary legislation, it is possible to access press releases,consultation documents such as green papers and white papers, statistics, latestdevelopments and links to the individual Directorates of the Commission. Links are alsoprovided to the homepages of all the EU political and judicial institutions, which are alsoreferred to below.

European Commission: The homepage of the Environment Directorate General of theEuropean Commission (DG ENV), which provides up to date information on all the EU'scurrent environmental activities, is at: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/environment/index_en.htm  

The European Commission has a number of key roles with respect to environmental policyat EU level. The Commission has a significant legislative role, in being the principalinstitution responsible for proposing specific legislative initiatives on environmentalprotection. In also has key powers in overseeing the correct implementation of EUenvironmental law by EU Member States. In addition, alongside EU Member States, it haspowers to act as representative of the EU in negotiations with respect to the developmentof international environmental policy.

Council of the EU:The Council of the EU's official website is: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/showPage.ASP?lang=en 

In environmental policy matters, the Council of the EU (also known as the Council ofMinisters) shares legislative power with the Council of the EU. The EP's site provides auseful insight into the workings of the EU legislative machine, affording free access toCouncil documents relating to the progress of proposed EU legislation.

European Parliament: The European Parliament's official web-site is: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ 

In environmental policy matters, the EP shares legislative power with the Council of theEU. The EP's site provides a useful insight into the workings of the EU legislative machine,affording free access to parliamentary documents relating to the progress of proposed EUlegislation.

European Court of Justice: The ECJ's website, which contains caselaw online since 1997 is: http://curia.europa.eu/ 

The entire body of ECJ caselaw may be accessed from the EU's europa website via theEUR-Lex portal: http://europa.eu/documents/eur-lex/index_en.htm

COUNCIL OF EUROPE

The CoE is a European regional international organization with a wider membership thanthe EU. A number of regional environmental conventions have been agreed under itsauspices. In addition, the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights and FundamentalFreedoms (ECHR), which is of increasing importance with respect to environmentalprotection issues in Europe, is a CoE agreement.

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http://www.coe.int/ -general

http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_rights/ - human rights (ECHR)

Seminar programme (108 items)

Week 2: Seminar for topic 1 (16 items)Historical foundations and evolution of International Environmental Law; International Environmental Law in context

Core reading (4 items)Textbook(s) - read at least one of the following:

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., Redgwell,Catherine, 2009

Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 1, pp1-12 and 37-42

Principles of international environmental law - Sands, Philippe, Peel, Jacqueline, FabraAguilar, Adriana, MacKenzie, Ruth, 2012

Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapters 1 and 2

International environmental law - Beyerlin, Ulrich, Marauhn, Thilo, 2011Book | Core (Must Read) | Part I Historical Development (Chs 1-4 pp1-30)

International environmental law - Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Jorge E. Viñuales, 2018Book | Core (Must Read) | Ch 1

Legal materials and other sources (1 items)

1972    Stockholm Declaration of Principles on the Human Environment (UNDoc.A/CONF.48/14/Rev.1): http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.Print.asp?DocumentID=97&ArticleID=1503

1992    Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (UNDoc.A.CONF.151/26/Rev.1,14.6.1992): http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.Print.asp?DocumentID=78&ArticleID=1163

2002    World Sustainable Development Summit, Johannesburg Declaration and Plan ofImplementation (UN Doc. A/CONF.199/20):  http://www.rrcap.unep.org/wssd/Political%20declaration_4%20Sep%2002.pdf  http://www.rrcap.unep.org/wssd/Plan_implementation_4%20Sep%2002.pdf

2012    Rio + 20 'Earth Summit' UN Conference on Sustainable Development  http://www.uncsd2012.org/thefuturewewant.html The Future We Want (UNGA ResolutionA/RES/66/288, 11.9.2012) Annex

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2015    UN Conference on Sustainable Development  https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/summit 

Transforming Our World : The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UNGAResolution A/RES/70/1, 21.10.2015) (Sustainable Development Goals)

Suggested selected initial further reading for Topic 1 (11 items)

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Ch 36 - Anton D, ‘“Treaty congestion” in contemporary international

environmental law

International environmental law: mapping the field - Bodansky/Brunee/HeyChapter | Ch1 in Bodansky/Brunee/Hey (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of International

Environmental Law (2007 Oxford)

The art and craft of international environmental law - Daniel Bodansky, 2010Book | Chapters 1-2 and 4 (especially pp 57-70)

Getting to 2030: Negotiating the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda - Pamela S.Chasek, Lynn M. Wagner, Faye Leone, Ana-Maria Lebada, Nathalie Risse, 2016-04

Article

The Nexus between International Law and the Sustainable Development Goals - RakhyunE. Kim, 2016-04

Article

Anthropocentrism - Gillespie, AChapter

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Chapter 1: The environment and international society: issues, concepts and

context

From Stockholm to Johannesburg: the anatomy of dissonance in the internationalenvironmental dialogue - Rajamani, L, 2003

Article

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Halvorrsen, A. - The origin and development of international environmental law

The 2005 World Summit: UN reform, security, environment and development - Hyvarinen, J, 2006

Article

On the Rio + 20 UN Earth Summit see eg range of critiques contained in:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jun/23/rio-20-earth-summit-document

See contrasting views from John Vidal and George Monbiot

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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/jun/27/rio20-reasons-cheerful

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/jun/22/rio-20-earth-summit-brazil

 

On the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Summit see eg range of appraisals contained in:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/sustainable-development-summit-2015

Chasek P S et al, Negotiating the Psot-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda' (2016)25(1) RECIEL 5 (as above)

Kim R E, The Nexus between International Law and the Sustainable Development Goals(2016) 25(1) RECIEL 15 (as above)

Week 3: Seminar for topic 2 (14 items)Governance and international environmental law

Core reading (4 items)Read at least one of the following

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., Redgwell,Catherine, 2009

Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 2

Principles of international environmental law - Sands, Philippe, Peel, Jacqueline, FabraAguilar, Adriana, MacKenzie, Ruth, 2012

Book | Core (Must Read) | Ch3 and pages 169-181 of Chapter 5.

International environmental law - Beyerlin, Ulrich, Marauhn, Thilo, 2011Book | Core (Must Read) | Ch17 and Ch 25

International environmental law - Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Jorge E. Viñuales, 2018Book | Core (Must Read) | Sections 2.1 -2.3 of Ch 2

Suggested selected initial further reading for Topic 2 (10 items)

The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: Orchestration by Default andDesign - Kenneth W. Abbott, Steven Bernstein, 2015-09

Article

Serving many voices: progressing calls for an international environmental organisation -Ayling, 1997

Article

Legitimacy - Bodansky, D

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Chapter | Ch30

The Oxford handbook of international environmental law -Brunnee, Jutta, Bodansky, Daniel, Hey, Ellen, 2007

Book | Part VI 'Actors and Institutions'

The art and craft of international environmental law - Bodansky, Daniel, 2010Book | Ch6

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Chapter 5 - Gonzalez: Environmental justice and international environmental law

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Chapter 6 - Govind: International environmental institutions

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Chapter 4 - Hossain: The international environmental law-making process

More Efficient International Law on the Environment and Setting up an International Courtfor the Environment within the United Nations - Postiglione, A, 1990

Article

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Ch 7 - Tava V: The role of non-governmental organisations, peoples and courts in

implementing international environmental law

Week 4: Seminar for topic 3 (7 items)Legal framework of International Environmental Law: sources of law and regulatory tools

Core reading (4 items)Textbook(s) - read at least one of the following:

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., Redgwell,Catherine, 2009

Book | Core (Must Read) | pp12-37 of chapter 1

Principles of international environmental law - Sands, Philippe, Peel, Jacqueline, FabraAguilar, Adriana, MacKenzie, Ruth, 2012

Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 4

International environmental law - Beyerlin, Ulrich, Marauhn, Thilo, 2011Book | Core (Must Read) | Chs18-21

International environmental law - Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Jorge E. Viñuales, 2018Book | Core (Must Read) | Sections 2.3- 2.4 of Ch 2

Suggested selected initial further reading for Topic 3 (3 items)

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Instrument choice - Stewart, RChapter | Ch8

Formation of customary international law and general principles - Dupuy, PMChapter | Ch19

The art and craft of international environmental law - Bodansky, Daniel, 2010Book | Ch4,5 and 9

Week 6: Seminar for topic 4 (9 items)Legal principles of International Environmental Law (1): state sovereignty andresponsibility

Core reading (4 items)Textbook(s) - read at least one of the following:

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., Redgwell,Catherine, 2009

Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 3, especially sections covering pages 106-152,175-184, 190-205 and 208-210

Principles of international environmental law - Sands, Philippe, Peel, Jacqueline, FabraAguilar, Adriana, MacKenzie, Ruth, 2012

Book | Core (Must Read) | pp187-200 of Chapter 6.

International environmental law - Beyerlin, Ulrich, Marauhn, Thilo, 2011Book | Core (Must Read) | Chs 5-6

International environmental law - Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Jorge E. Viñuales, 2018Book | Core (Must Read) | sections 3.1 - 3.3.2 of Ch 3

Legal Sources (3 items)

Transboundary harm:

Trail Smelter Arbitration: 1938 and 1941 Trail Smelter Arbitration (USA v Canada) beforethe Arbitral Tribunal American Journal of International Law 33 (1939) 182 http://www.jura.uni-muenchen.de/einrichtungen/ls/simma/tel/case8.htm

International Court of Justice's 1996 Advisory Opinion in The Legality of the Threat or Useof Nuclear Weapons (ICJ rulings located at: http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idecisions.htm)

ICJ 1997 ruling on the dispute between Hungary and Slovakia in the case concerning the Gabcíkovo-Nagymaros Project. (ICJ rulings located at: http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idecisions.htm)

International Law Commission's 2001 Draft Articles on Prevention of Transboundary Harmfrom Hazardous Activities  http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/draft%20articles/9_7_2001.pdf

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Extraterritorial measures:

Bering Sea Fur Seals Arbitration - Arbitral tribunal, 1909Article

 Shrimp/Turtle Case(US – Import prohibition of certain shrimp and shrimp products(1998)World Trade Organisation Appellate Body 38 ILM 118 (1999)

SS Lotus Case (France v Turkey) (1927) Permanent Court of International Justice PCIJSeries A, No 9

Case C-5/94 R. v. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, ex parte Hedley Lomas [1996] ECR I-2553. European Court of Justice.

Case C-366/10 Air Transport Association of America [2011] European Court of Justicejudgment of 21.12.2011 (accessible via the ECJ's case law database on 'curia':http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/j_6/)

Suggested selected initial further reading for Topic 4 (2 items)

Transboundary impacts - Handl, GChapter | Ch22

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., Redgwell,Catherine, 2009

Book | Chapter 4, pp211-237

Week 7: Seminar for topic 5 (11 items)Legal principles of International Environmental Law (2): prevention and precaution

Core reading (4 items)Textbook(s) - read at least one of the following:

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., Redgwell,Catherine, 2009

Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 3, pp137-164

Principles of international environmental law - Sands, Philippe, Peel, Jacqueline, FabraAguilar, Adriana, MacKenzie, Ruth, 2012

Book | Core (Must Read) | Pages 200-203, 207-228 of Chapter 6

International environmental law - Beyerlin, Ulrich, Marauhn, Thilo, 2011Book | Core (Must Read) | Ch 6 (esp. p41) and Ch7

International environmental law - Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Jorge E. Viñuales, 2018Book | Core (Must Read) | Sections 3.33 - 3.3.4 of Ch 3

Legal sources (1 items)

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Selected WTO documentation:

WTO Appellate Body decision: EC- Measures concerning Meat and Meat Products (BeefHormones), WT/DS48/AB/R, 16 January 1998

WTO Panel: EC – Measures affecting the approval and marketing of biotech productsWT/DS291/R, 29 September 2006

Selected EU legislative materials:

COM (2000) 1 European Commission Communication on the precautionary principle http://ec.europa.eu/environment/docum/20001_en.htm

Judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU:

Case T-13/99 Pfizer v Commission [2002] ECR II-3305

(CoJ judgments may be inspected on the EU's 'EUR-LEX' website which is http://europa.eu/documents/eur-lex/index_en.htm (click the icon 'case law section' toaccess search engine). Judgments are also reported in the European Court Reports (ECR)and Common Market Law Reports (CMLR) which are stocked in the Library).

Selected European Court of Human Rights judgment:

Balmer-Schlafroth v Switzerland (1998) 25 EHRR 598

(ECHR judgments are available online on the Council of Europe's website at: http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_rights/)

Selected International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) documentation:

Southern Bluefin Tuna Cases (NZ and AUS v Japan) (1999)(Accessible via: http://www.itlos.org/)

Suggested selected initial further reading for Topic 7 (6 items)

The Precautionary Principle and a Fair Allocation of the Burden of Proof in InternationalEnvironmental Law - Monika Ambrus, 2012-11

Article

Different types of norms in international environmental law - Beyerlin, UChapter | Ch18

Is the precautionary principle justiciable? - Fisher, E, 2001Article

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Chapter 3 - Kravchenko/Chowdhury/Bhuiyan: Principles of international

environmental law

The precautionary principle as a norm of customary international law - McIntyre, O and

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Mosedal, T, 1997Article

Precaution - Wiener, JChapter | Ch25

Week 8: Seminar for topic 6 (13 items)Legal principles of International Environmental Law (3): Polluter Pays, Sustainable Development and Common But Differentiated Responsibility(CBDR)

Core reading (4 items)Read at least one of the following

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., Redgwell,Catherine, 2009

Book | Core (Must Read) | pages 115-137 of Chapter 3, pages 322-326 of Ch5

Principles of international environmental law - Sands, Philippe, Peel, Jacqueline, FabraAguilar, Adriana, MacKenzie, Ruth, 2012

Book | Core (Must Read) | pp206-217 and 228-236 of Ch6

International environmental law - Beyerlin, Ulrich, Marauhn, Thilo, 2011Book | Core (Must Read) | Chs 8-10

International environmental law - Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Jorge E. Viñuales, 2018Book | Core (Must Read) | Sections 3.3.5 - 3.5 of Ch 3

Selected legal materials (1 items)

1992    Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (UN Doc.A.CONF.151/26/Rev.1,14.6.1992):

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.Print.asp?DocumentID=78&Ar     ticleID=1163

2012    Rio + 20 'Earth Summit' UN Conference on Sustainable Development

http://www.uncsd2012.org/thefuturewewant.html The Future We Want (UNGA ResolutionA/RES/66/288, 11.9.2012) Annex

 2015    UN Conference on Sustainable Development

 https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/summit

Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for global action – Final draft of the - OutcomeDocument for the UN Summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda

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UN Summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda (25-27/9/15, New York) 

Suggested selected initial further reading for Topic 6 (8 items)

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., 2002Book | Chapter 3, pp92-95

Different types of norms in international environmental law - Beyerlin, UChapter | Ch 18

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Chapter 37 - Bosselmann: Sustainable development and international

environmental law

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Chapter 3 - Kravchenko/Chowdhury/Bhuiyan: Principles of international

environmental law

Sustainable development - Magraw, D and Hawke, DChapter | Ch26

A Conceptual and Legal Perspective on the Green Economy - Elisa Morgera, AnnalisaSavaresi, 2013-04

Article

The Rise and Fall of Sustainable Development - Jorge E. Viñuales, 2013-04Article

Sustainable Development and Its Discontents - John C. Dernbach, Federico Cheever,2015-10

Article

Week 9: Seminar for topic 7 (18 items)International human rights and the environment

Core reading (4 items)Textbook(s) - read at least one of the following:

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., Redgwell,Catherine, 2009

Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 5, pp271-302

Principles of international environmental law - Sands, Philippe, Peel, Jacqueline, FabraAguilar, Adriana, MacKenzie, Ruth, 2012

Book | Core (Must Read) | pp775-789 of Ch8

International environmental law - Beyerlin, Ulrich, Marauhn, Thilo, 2011Book | Core (Must Read) | Ch26

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International environmental law - Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Jorge E. Viñuales, 2018Book | Core (Must Read) | Ch 10

Selected legal sources (1 items)

Selected international documents:

Principle 1 of UN Declaration on the Human Environment 1972 (Stockholm)

Principle 1 of Declaration of the UN Conference on Environment and Development 1992(Rio)

Both of the above Declarations may be inspected on the following UNEP search site: http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/

1994 Draft Declaration of Principles on Human Rights and the Environment

The text of the draft declaration, which was proposed by the United Nations Economic andSocial Council (UNECE) Report Commission on Human Rights Sub-Commission onprevention of discrimination and protection of minorities: Review of further developmentsin fields with which the Sub-Commission has been concerned – Human Rights and theEnvironment (E/CN.4/Sub.2/1994/9) (Rapporteur Fatma Zohra Ksentini)may be inspectedon the following websites:

http://www.cedha.org.ar/docs/doc90-part1-eng.htm

http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/environment/envright.html

UN Office of High Commissioner on Human Rights - Commission on Human Rightsresolution 2003/71

http://www.unep.org/civil_society/PDF_docs/Resolution_2003_71_Human_rights_and_the_environment.doc 

ICCPR 1966 (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)

ACHPR 1981 (African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights)

ILO Convention No 169 (1989) Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples

Selected international human rights cases:

Ogoniliand Case (The Social and Economic Rights Action Centre and the Centre forEconomic and Social Rights (SERAC) v Nigeria ACHPR (African Commission on Human andPeoples' Rights) 155/96 (2002)

Indigenous Community of the Toledo District v BelizeCase (2004) 12.053 Report 40/04IACHR OEA/Ser L/V/II.122 Doc5 rev1

Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v Nicaragua (2001) IACHR Ser C No 20

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Yanomani Indians v Brazil Dec.7615 IACHR (1985) Internat. Yearbook on Human Rights 264

Selected European legal documentation:

European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR)1950.

In particular consider Articles 2,3,6,8 and 10 ECHR as well as Article 1 of Protocol 1 to theECHR. The ECHR may be inspected on the following Council of Europe's website:

http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/ListeTraites.asp?MA=3&CM=7&CL=ENG

Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union of 7.12.2000 (OJ 2000 C364/1),especially Article 37 (the text of which is reproduced in seminar question 3 below).

The text of the Charter may be inspected on the EU's website: www.europa.eu.int

(Note: the EU Charter is now a integral part of the constitutional framework of the EU, byvirtue of the Lisbon Treaty 2007. Specifically, Art.6 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU)as amended by Lisbon stipulates that the Charter has the 'same legal value' as the EU'sfounding treaties). Certain EUMember States have obtained derogations from being boundby the Charter (UK,Poland and CzechRepublic). The Lisbon Treaty is published on the EU'sofficial website: www.europa.eu)

1998 UNECE Arhus Convention on access to information, public participation indecision-making and access to justice

Selected jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR):

López Ostra v Spain (23.11.1994)

Hatton and others v UK (8.7.2003, judgment of the Grand Chamber of the Court)

The above two judgments of the ECtHR have involved consideration of the impact of     the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 1950 (see         reference and link below) on environmental protection issues. Judgments of the Court     may be inspected on the following Council of Europe website by using the Court's humanrights search engine HUDOC : http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/

Suggested selected initial further reading for Topic 7 (13 items)

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Chapter 32 - Alam: Collective indigenous rights and the environment

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., 2002Book | Chapter 5, pp252-267

Human rights approaches to environmental protection - Boyle, Alan E., Anderson, M.R.,1996

Book

Human Rights and the Environment: Where Next? - A. Boyle, 2012-08-01

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Restoring the Climate by Realizing Rights: The Role of the International Human RightsSystem - Edward Cameron, Marc Limon, 2012-11

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Enforcing EU Charter of Human Rights Principles and Fundamental Rights in EnvironmentalCases - N de Sadeleer, 2012

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International Human Rights in an Environmental Horizon - F. Francioni, 2010-02-01Article

Can the Human Rights Bodies be Used to Produce Interim Measures to ProtectEnvironment-Related Human Rights? - Severine Fiorletta Leroy, 2006-04

Article

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Chapter 33 - May/Daly: Global constitutional environment rights

Environmental rights - Merrills, JChapter | Ch28

Environment Playing Short-handed: Margin of Appreciation in Environmental Jurisprudenceof the European Court of Human Rights - Hana Müllerová, 2015-04

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Environment Rights versus Environmental Wrongs: Forum over Substance? - MarieSoveroski, 2008-01-15

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Whither Environmental Human Rights - Stallworthy, Mark, 2005Article

Week 10: Seminar for topic 8 (12 items)Implementation and enforcement of International Environmental Law

Core reading (4 items)Textbook(s) - read at least one of the following:

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., Redgwell,Catherine, 2009

Book | Core (Must Read) | Chapter 5, pp237-267

Principles of international environmental law - Sands, Philippe, Peel, Jacqueline, FabraAguilar, Adriana, MacKenzie, Ruth, 2012

Book | Core (Must Read) | Ch5

International environmental law - Beyerlin, Ulrich, Marauhn, Thilo, 2011Book | Core (Must Read) | Chs22-24

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International environmental law - Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Jorge E. Viñuales, 2018Book | Core (Must Read) | Chs 8-9

Legal sources (1 items)

Selected international documentation:

*UNEP Guidelines on Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral EnvironmentalAgreements (MEAs) 2001: http://www.unep.org/dec/docs/UNEP_Guidelines_for_MEAs_English_Edition.pdf

Consider the compliance provisions in the following MEAs:

1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

1989 Basel Convention on Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste

1997 Kyoto Protocol

Selected European Union materials:

-Articles 258-260 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (ex Arts. 226 - 228 of theformer European Community Treaty (reproduced in seminar question 4 below).

-Judgment of the European Court of Justice:

Case C-387/97 Commission v Greece (Kouroupitos) [2000] ECR I-454

The judgment may be accessed from the following EU websites:

EUR-LEX website: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JURISIndex.do?ihmlang=en

ECJ website: http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=en

Suggested selected initial further reading for Topic 8 (7 items)

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., 2002Book | Chapter 4, pp200-249

The art and craft of international environmental law - Bodansky, Daniel, 2010Book | Chs 10-12

National implementation - Redgwell, CChapter | Ch40

Engaging Countries: Strengthening Compliance with International Environmental Accords -Edith Brown Weiss

Book

Compliance and enforcement in environmental law: toward more effective implementation

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Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Ch 10: Stephens, T. - The settlement of disputes in international environmental

law

Routledge handbook of international environmental law - Shawkat Alam, 2013Book | Ch 36: Anton, D. - "Treaty congestion" in contemporary international

environmental law

Week 11: Self-study Topic 9 (8 items)Case Study: Climate change law and the international community

Core reading (3 items)Textbook(s) - read at least one of the following:

International law and the environment - Birnie, Patricia W., Boyle, Alan E., Redgwell,Catherine, 2009

Book | Core (Must Read) | page 271-302 of Chapter 5.

Principles of international environmental law - Sands, Philippe, Peel, Jacqueline, FabraAguilar, Adriana, MacKenzie, Ruth, 2012

Book | Core (Must Read) | pp274-298 of Ch7

International environmental law - Beyerlin, Ulrich, Marauhn, Thilo, 2011Book | Core (Must Read) | pp159-171 of Ch13

Selected legal material sources (1 items)

International legal documents:

1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (entered into force21.3.1994):http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf

1997 Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC 1997 (entered into force 16.2.2005):http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.pdf

Decision 27/CMP.1 on Procedures and mechanisms relating to compliance under the KyotoProtocol (available for inspection on the following website:http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2005/cmp1/eng/08a03.pdf#page=92)

Copenhagen Accord 2009 and member state notifications: http://unfccc.int

Durban Platform 2011 (COP-17):

http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2011/cop17/eng/l10.pdf

2015 Paris Agreement

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http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php

Useful supplementary references:

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5): ClimateChange 2014: Synthesis Report. A Summary for Policymakers:      https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5 

A Guide to the Climate Change Convention Process, UNFCCC Climate Change Secretariat,Bonn 2002: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/publications/guideprocess-p.pd

Key websites:

UNFCCC

http://unfccc.int/

IPCC website

http://www.ipcc.ch/

Suggested further (initial) reading for Topic 9 (3 items)

The Long Way to the Copenhagen Accord: Climate Change Negotiations in 2009 -Leonardo Massai, 2010-06-17

Article

Climate policy: road works and new horizons - an assessment of the UNFCCC process fromLima to Paris and beyond - H Ott, 2014

Article

Climate of Consensus: Managing Decision Making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations -Antto Vihma, 2015-04

Article

Selected commentaries on 2015 Paris Agreement: (1 items)

Monbiot G, 'Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments' The Guardian newspaper (12.12.2015) – accessibleat: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2015/dec/12/paris-climate-deal-governments-fossil-fuels

Bodansky D, Reflections on the Paris Conference (17.12.2015) – accessible at:http://opiniojuris.org/2015/12/15/reflections-on-the-paris-conference/

Other commentaries may be found at:http://teachingclimatelaw.org/compendium-of-commentary-on-the-paris-agreementcop21/****

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