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LAW4679

Faculty of Law

18 September 2017 27 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Law

Offered

Malaysia

  • Term 3 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

Climate change is among the most daunting problems the world faces in the 21st century. This unit deals with the legal dimension of climate change, paying due regard to its social, political and economic context. The unit will examine the development of national, supranational and international regulation, and explore how public and private actors mobilise instruments from different fields of law (such as private law, international trade law, investment law and human rights law) to facilitate or to undermine climate change mitigation and adaptation. For that purpose, examples of strategic litigation from the US, the EU and Australia will be analysed.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students will be able to:

  • Apply knowledge and understanding of recent developments in climate change law, regulation and policy, as well as the key bodies operating this area and their functions and responsibilities, with creativity and initiative to solve practical problems and/or for further learning.
  • Investigate, analyse and synthesise information, problems, concepts and theories in relation to international, supranational and national law of climate change.
  • Conduct research on the political and legislative developments behind the emergence of international, supranational and national climate change law on knowledge of appropriate research principles and methods.
  • Use cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate ideas and concepts relevant to the law of climate change.

Assessment

(1) Reflection paper (1,000 words): 20%
(2) Research paper (3,000 words): 60%
(3) Presentation: 10%
(4) Class participation: 10%

Workload requirements

Students will be required to attend 36 hours of classes, and undertake approximately an additional 108 hours of private study, including reading, class preparation, assignment preparation and revision time over the duration of the course.

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Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Normann Witzleb

Prerequisites

a) For students who commenced their LLB course prior to 2015:
LAW1101 Introduction to legal reasoning
LAW1104 Research and writing

b) For students enrolled in the LLB (Honours) course from 2015:

LAW1111 Foundations of law
LAW1112 Public law and statutory interpretation
LAW1113 Torts
LAW1114 Criminal law 1
LAW2101 Contract A
LAW2102 Contract B
LAW2111 Constitutional law
LAW2112 Property A

c) For other students:

Equivalent introductory units from another university.