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Module

LAW3215 : Environmental Law (Inactive)

  • Inactive for Year: 2024/25
  • Module Leader(s): Professor Ole Pedersen
  • Owning School: Newcastle Law School
  • Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 1 Credit Value: 20
ECTS Credits: 10.0
European Credit Transfer System

Aims

- To establish a critical understanding of the range of legal and administrative regimes concerned with environmental law.
- To establish a critical understanding of the main legal concepts and instruments concerned with pollution control, including common law and civil remedies, the command and control regime of integrated pollution control, nature conservation.
- To introduce basic ethical perspectives with regard to the environment and to establish general understanding of the range of legal and administrative regimes concerned with the conservation and public enjoyment of the environment as well as emerging environmental law and policy themes.
- To develop students’ capacity for critical analysis and problem solving;
- To develop students’ research skills through the preparation of coursework and class presentations;
- To encourage student-driven learning.

Outline Of Syllabus

- Foundations of environmental law
- Environmental Jurisdictions
- Environmental democracy
- Climate change law
- Conservation of nature
- Pollution control

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesLecture301:0030:00N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesSmall group teaching51:005:00N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesDrop-in/surgery11:001:00N/A
Guided Independent StudyIndependent study1641:00164:00N/A
Total200:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The lectures will deliver content. The seminars will require advance preparation. The rationale for this teaching method is to provide students with material efficiently in lectures then promote analytical, argumentative and critical skills essential for discourse in seminars. The learning methods will rely on directed self study for the seminars time and independent study for the preparation of assessed coursework which will bring together the knowledge, cognitive, research and the assessed key skills.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Essay1M1002000 words
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The assessment provides an important incentive for students to establish substantial knowledge in the subject. The assessment, moreover, tests the demonstration of knowledge and understanding by applying the skills that need to be developed over the whole module and provides a means for testing students' ability to analyse, synthesise, deploy critical judgement and evaluate alternative arguments. It also allows candidates to demonstrate intended learning outcomes across a broad range of topics within the syllabus .

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