CHM6162 Environmental Law and Policy

This course aims to allow students the opportunity to question how effectively international environmental law can protect human health and the environment. The course aims to address practical and pressing problems such as pollution, chemicals, loss of biodiversity, sustainability, the regulation of novel technologies and climate change. The course questions how we can limit environmental damage the future and addresses important issues of environmental justice such as how to adapt to climate change.  There is a practical end to the course it aims to review both, environmental litigation, through the case law, as well as how to handle environmental risks in the course of property and commercial transactions.