• Syllabus
• Resource List
• Problems List

Table of Contents

UNIT 1/15 — Introduction on Background

• Background & Issues
• Readings & Viewings
• Problems & Exercises

UNIT 2/15 — Customary Law as Basis for International Environmental Law?

• Background & Issues
• Readings & Viewings
  • Lake Lanoux Arbitration (France v. Spain)
  • Nuclear Test Cases (Australia v. France)
  • Trail Smelter Arbitration (US v. Canada)
• Problems & Exercises
  • Rotunda
  • Daiichi Nuclear Disaster Problem

UNIT 3/15 — Human, Development & Other Rights-based Legal Approaches to Int’l Environmental Law?

• Background and Issues
• Readings and Viewings
• Problems and Exercises

UNIT 4/15 — Human Rights Views Differing; ATCA Then, Now Business & Human Rights Approaches Internationally (Customary Law Versus General Principles)

• Background and Issues
• Readings and Viewings
• Problems and Exercises
  • Freeport-McMoran Grasberg Alien Tort Claims Act Litigation
  • Monitoring Potential Foreign Litigation Problem (Potential Foreign vs US Litigation)
  • Whatever Happened to the ATCA Shell Litigation? (Actual Foreign vs US Litigation)

UNIT 5/15 — Private Sector Voluntary Codes & ESG (Market-Orientation & Litigation Safe Harbors)?

• Background and Issues
• Readings and Viewings
• Problems and Exercises
  • BP’s Tangguh LNG Project and the Phantom Freeport Problem
  • Energy Transition and Technology Forcing Problem

UNIT 6/15 — Treaty Interpretation and Treaty Process Approaches to International Environmental Law: Package Deal vs. Framework Convention

• Background and Issues
• Readings and Viewings
• Problems and Exercises
  • Flathead Mine & Boundary Waters Treaty Problem
  • Mekong River Problem

UNIT 7/15 — Issues with Markets, Distributive Justice & Agency Problems in International Environmental Law (Hidden Economics & Environmental Justice)

• Background and Issues
• Readings and Viewings
• Problems and Exercises
  • John Q. Public
  • Border Adjustment Taxes (Environmental Tariffs) Problem
  • Charleston Problem

UNIT 8/15 — Trade/Scientific Risk NTBs & Non-State Aspects (GMOs Plus)

• Background and Issues
• Readings and Viewings
• Problems and Exercises
  • Good Cardio Palm Oil Problem

UNIT 9/15 — Trade & Environment (WTO & GATT Article XX(b)&(g) Exceptions, On-Going Negotiations)

• Background and Issues
• Readings and Viewings
• Problems and Exercises
  • CPO and Sustainability Problem
  • Saving Turtles, Indian-Style Problem

UNIT 10/15— Implementation & International Monitoring on the Example of Ozone

• Background and Issues
• Readings and Viewings
• Problems and Exercises

UNIT 11/15— Climate Change as the Ultimate Test for the Framework Convention Approach

• Background and Issues
• Readings and Viewings
• Problems and Exercises

UNIT 12/15— Domestic Implications of International Treaty-Making: The Basel Convention & Hazardous Waste

• Background and Issues
• Readings and Viewings
• Problems and Exercises
  • Vrozen Vrootjes Problem

UNIT 13/15— 1973 CITES Convention & Approaches to the Marine Environment: New Science, Old Treaties & Regional Governance

• Background and Issues
• Readings and Viewings
• Problems and Exercises
  • Exoticwood CITES Petition Problem

UNIT 14/15— 1992 Biodiversity Convention, Sustainability & Indigenous Knowledge

• Background and Issues
• Problems and Exercises
• Readings and Viewings

UNIT 15/15 — Enforcement, Natural Resources & Who Decides?

• Background & Issues
• Readings & Viewings
• Problems & Exercises

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