About the module:

The air we breathe. The food we eat. The ground we live on. Environmental protection poses unique challenges to the law. In this module on environmental law, we critically assess the role that law has to play in regulating and protecting the environment by examining a range of contemporary environmental issues including climate change, nature conservation, and pollution control. We will look at UK and international environmental law. We consider how relevant aspects of these bodies of law apply to the complexities of environmental problems that cross borders and are ever changing, and which implicate ingrained social behaviours.

We will look at a range of regulatory philosophies and mechanisms, ranging from traditional approaches such as ‘command and control’ regulation of pollution, to the establishment of trading regimes in carbon, to the ways in which environmental impacts are assessed and evaluated before the development of land or the adoption of strategic social and economic plans. We will consider how environmental philosophies such as environmental justice inform, inspire and critique environmental law.

This module is ideal for those interested in contemporary environmental issues and disputes and is a useful stepping-stone for those wishing to work in private, commercial practice as well as for those students wishing to enter the NGO/public sector.

Recommended texts: Fisher, Lange and Scotford, Environmental Law: Text, Cases and Materials (2nd ed, OUP 2017), supplemented by other reading as advised by module leaders

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 20 weekly lectures.

Content: A module of exercises and discussions designed to improve fluency of unprepared...

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 20 weekly lectures.

Content: A module of exercises and discussions designed to improve fluency of unprepared translation into English from Latin prose and verse authors. Weekly classes provide practice in unseen translation of a wide-ranging selection of Latin prose and verse authors. Class work focuses on discussion of grammar and style, common pitfalls and hints about translation techniques as well as practical exercises.

Skills: By the end of the module students will have had sufficient practice to be able to apply their knowledge and thus make reasonable assumptions regarding the content of an unseen passage.

Introductory reading: any anthology of Latin passages for translation.