LAW M12 - Intl Environmental Law

The course considers topics such as liability in transboundary pollution; institutional framework of international environmental regimes; the cooperative system of management of global environmental problems (climate change, biodiversity loss…) and of the global commons (atmosphere, oceans, Antarctica….); debt for nature swaps; environmental restraints on international aid and technology transfer; international trade and the environment (WTO and the environment; unilateral environmental measures and trade sanctions; shipping of hazardous waste; CITES….); international environmental torts and human rights; and environmental issues in transnational contracts, mergers and acquisitions.