LAW 2743 - Comparative Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Transboundary pollution, biodiversity loss, and the emerging field of environmental human rights make comparative environmental law especially compelling. This course provides a comparative look at environmental and natural resource laws governing environmental degradation, environmental impact assessments, environmental human rights, and biological diversity and conservation. This course will introduce students to the international regulation of the environment and natural resources and highlight distinctions between the United States’ system of environmental law and natural resource regulation and models used throughout selected countries.
The course will primarily compare the English language policies of common law countries like the US, Canada, New Zealand, England, and India. The common law origins will enable students to trace the development of law and policy from its early stages and examine how common cultural influences yet divergent environmental and natural resources programs can lead to legal changes. This course will also engage in limited comparisons to civil law legal systems and draw on comparisons to our host country, Curaçao (a civil law nation). The course will review case studies on specific environmental and resource management problems to enable students to take a ”hands on” problem-solving approach and to compare and contrast outcomes under the laws of various nations
Prerequisites & Notes
This course will be taught in the Curacao Program.
Credits: 2
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