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LA2902 - Environmental Law and Policy
| Credit points: | 3 |
| Year: | 2023 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 4 |
| Administered by: | College of Business, Law & Governance |
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.
Subject Assessment
- Written > Essay (including multi-draft) 1 - (60%) - Individual
- Written > Examination (College administered) - (40%) - Individual.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: |
EV3206 and EV5201 and EV2002 and LA5902 and LA4011 |
Availabilities |
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| Cairns, Study Period 1, Internal | |
| Census Date 23-Mar-2023 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Professor Gary Meyers. |
| Workload expectations: |
The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.
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| Townsville, Study Period 1, Internal | |
| Census Date 23-Mar-2023 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Gary Meyers |
| Lecturer: | Mr Sean Kelly. |
| Workload expectations: |
The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.
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| Study Period 1, External | |
| Census Date 23-Mar-2023 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Professor Gary Meyers. |
| Workload expectations: |
The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.
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| Method of Delivery: | WWW - LearnJCU |
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