LA5902 - Environmental Law and Policy

Credit points:	03
Year:	2010
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
Administered by:	School of Law Office

This subject does not constitute a law elective. Students enrolled in law and joint law degrees should only take this subject as a non-law elective.

The subject introduces students to the fundamentals of the study of law and of the nature of international, national and state environmental law. The subject then examines the application of environmental law in Australia as an instrument for enforcing environmental regulation, promoting ecologically sustainable development, resource management and planning, heritage governance and environmental conservation and protection.

Learning Outcomes

• to enable students to develop an understanding of the architecture of environmental law systems and of the nature and form of norms and principles of international, Australian federal and selected state environmental laws and policies;
• to provide students with a basic introduction to legal source materials, modes of legal reasoning, legal terminology and concepts and categories of law;
• to enable students to analyse and critique environmental law and policy in the context of the contemporary global and local environmental outlook;
• to enable students to critique the adequacy of current law and policy and to make recommendations on how the law should evolve;
• to enable students to reflect critically on how and why the principles of environmental law and policy have evolved.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to use a variety of media and methods to retrieve, analyse, evaluate, organise and present information;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning processes and products;
• The ability to learn independently and in a self-directed manner;
• A commitment to lifelong learning and intellectual development.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

EV2002 and EV3206 and EV5201 and LA2902

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 25-Mar-2010
Coordinator:	Ms Dominique Thiriet
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); assignments (35%); essay proposal (15%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 25-Mar-2010
Coordinator:	Ms Dominique Thiriet
Lecturer:	Ms Hayley Grainger.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); assignments (35%); essay proposal (15%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.