INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW II

General Principles of International Environmental Law II

International Law and Policy on Marine Environmental Protection and Management

Introduction

We will examine the different sources of international environmental law, with an emphasis on the distinction between 'hard' and 'soft' law, an important categorisation that has various ramifications in all the regimes studied later in the year. Thirdly, we will bring together the first and second point by looking at some of the basic legal documents of international environmental law, in particular the non-binding resolutions adopted at the end of each of the major UN conferences on the environment. The research ...