PART II: FOUNDATIONS OF IEL AND TREATY SYSTEM
Class 3 (July 6): Introduction to International Environmental Law—its structure and sources
* Analytical Paper Due: Sources of Utilities and Waste
* Review Environmental Law Timeline
* IEL, Chapter 1, “Sources and Forms of International Environmental Law,” pp. 1-29.
* IEL, Chapter 2, “The Historical Continuum,” pp. 30-47.
* GEIL, Chapter 2, “Law Trying to Save Earth: Strategies, Institutions, and Organizations,” pp. 13-56.
* RS, Chapter 4, “First Attempt at Global Environmental Governance,” 77-97.
* Weiss, “Global Environmental Change and International Law: The Introductory Framework,” in Environmental Change and International Law, UN University Press, 1992, pp. 13-23.
* TREATY: Declaration of the UN Conference on the Human Environment, 1972 (“Stockholm Declaration”).
Recommended Readings:
* Barrett, “On the Theory and Diplomacy of Environmental Treaty-Making,” Environmental and Resource Economics, 11:3-4, 317-333 (1998)
Class 4 (July 11): Strengths and Weaknesses of the Treaty System in Int’l Law
* Country/Group Reports Due (Beginning of Class).
* GEIL, Chapter 4, “An Accounting: Successes and Failures in IEL,” pp. 82-140.
* RS, Chapter 5, “Anatomy of a Failure,” pp. 98-116.
* ED, Chapter 3, “Representation and Voting,” pp. 43-61.
* GPB, “Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Summary,” pp. 147-155 (reserve).
* GPB, “Environment and Development: The Case of Developing Countries,” pp. 29-36 (reserve).
* TREATY: World Charter for Nature, 1982; Earth Charter, 2000
KEY:
GEIL = The Global Environment and International Law, Joe DiMento, University of Texas Press (2003).
RS = Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, James Gustave Speth, Yale University Press (2004).
GPB = Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics From Stockholm to Johannesburg, Ken Conca and Geoffrey Dabelko, Westview (2004).
ED = Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements, Lawrence E. Susskind, Oxford University Press (1996).
GEG = Global Environmental Governance, James Gustave Speth & Peter M. Haas, Island Press (2006) (Just came out, book itself not on reserve—only pdf files).
GE = The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy, Regina Axelrod, David Downie, and Norman Vig, CQ Press (2005).