Module LAW3016C for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3016C: Legal Response to Environmental Destruction
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
This cross-disciplinary module is designed and delivered in the knowledge that ‘interdisciplinarity’ lies at the heart of future regulatory solutions to environmental challenges. By bringing together both Law and non-Law students across the Cornwall campus, the module provides an exciting opportunity for students to collaborate across disciplines in order to generate genuinely new and innovative regulatory solutions to major environmental challenges. We also aim to promote an end-of-term conference at which your new and innovative regulatory solutions can be presented, leading to genuine opportunities for impact or further outputs from your research.
In terms of the substantive content, the focus is to introduce you to some of the key theories, concepts and issues environmental law and policy, as well as support you in generating new research and ideas in this field. It will therefore offer an overview of basic environmental law principles by considering national and European legal responses to managing global commons, the history of the development of environmental law, and the values and principles that have shaped this newly evolving discipline. The module provides you with an understanding of the contemporary theory, critical issues in, and perspectives on, environmental regulation and policy. It also aims to provide you with a sound grasp of cutting-edge debates surrounding global environmental challenges from biodiversity loss, to air pollution and the climate emergency, to mass pollution, and the challenges of waste and recycling, just as examples.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of aspects of environmental law and policy; 2. Propose and justify changes to environmental law and policy; 3. Critically evaluate key issues and challenges for environmental law and policy. |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Assimilate and engage effectively with a range of primary and secondary legal resources in your legal writing and reasoning; 5. Select, integrate and coherently present relevant legal and non-legal arguments. |
| Personal and Key Skills | 6. Collaborate in a team to develop and evaluate interdisciplinary policy strategies for tackling a problem; 7. Distinguish evidence-based claims from unfounded assertions and use evidence to support your own claims and arguments; 8. Demonstrate effective and accurate written communication skills in a manner appropriate to the discipline / different contexts; 9. Demonstrate effective oral communication skills in a manner appropriate to the context. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover all or some of the following topics:
Foundations of Environmental Law and Policy
- Values, Principles and Concepts
- Sources and Institutions
- Regulation, Compliance and Enforcement
- Public Participation and Environmental Rights
Critical Perspectives in Environmental Law and Policy
- Nature Conservation Law
- Air Pollution Regulation
- Climate Law, Policy & Justice
- Marine Governance
- Waste Management
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | 118 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching Activities | 11 | 11 x 1-hour lectures |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching Activities | 10 | 5 x 2-hour tutor-led seminars |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching Activities | 5 | 5 x 1-hour student-led or facilitated team meetings |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching Activities | 6 | Attendance at end-of-term conference |
| Guided Independent Study | 25 | General reading for the module |
| Guided Independent Study | 40 | Workshop preparation |
| Guided Independent Study | 53 | Assessment preparation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Other Learning Resources
Electronic journals and databases such as EUR-Lex, West law, Lexis Nexis, Hein Online etc.
Those provided for and distributed to the students by the ESI and local environmental initiatives collaborated with.
