PART III: PRINCIPLES AND ENFORCEMENT OF IEL

Class 5 (July 13): General Principles of IEL and the Earth Summit

* Sands, “General Principles and Rules of IEL,” Principles of International Environmental Law, 2d, pp. 231-290 (reserve).

* GE, Sands and Peel, “Environmental Protection in the Twenty-First Century: Sustainable Development and International Law,” (reserve).

* GEG, Chapter 3, “From Stockholm to Jo’burg,” pp. 52-81 (reserve).

* Weiss, “Intergenerational Equity: A Legal Framework for Global Environmental Change,” in Environmental Change and International Law, UN University Press, 1992, pp. 385-412.

* GPB, World Commission on Environment and Development, “Towards Sustainable Development,” pp. 234-245(reserve).

* TREATY: Declaration of the UN Conference on Environment and Development, 1992 (“Rio Declaration”)

Recommended Readings:

* Cameron, “The Precautionary Principle,” Trade, Environment and the Millennium, pp. 239-262.

* Haas, Levy, and Parson, “Appraising the Earth Summit: How Should We Judge UNCED’s Success?” Environment, 34:8 (1992).

* Klein, “Booby Traps at Rio + 10,” Nation, September 22, 2002.

For More Information on Rio:

UN site for UNCED: http://www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html

Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 (by chapter): http://habitat.igc.org/agenda21/rio-dec.htm

Class 6 (July 18): Enforcement and Monitoring in IEL

* GEIL, Beginning of Chapter 5, “IEL: Expectations and Recommendations,” pp. 141-154.

* RS, Chapter 8, “Attacking the Root Causes,” pp. 151-71.

* EL, Chapter 3, “Implementation,” pp. 48-104.

* EL, “Appendix of Terms,” pp. 561-587.

* GE, Faure and Lefevere, “Compliance with Global Environmental Policy,” pp. 163-180 (reserve).

* McMichael, “New Visions for Addressing Sustainability,” Science, 302:1919-20.

* Barrett and Stavins, “Increasing Participation and Compliance in International Climate Change Agreements,” International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 3: 349–376 (2003).

* TREATY: Jo’burg Summit Memo

Recommended Readings:

* GPB, Speth, “Perspective on the Johannesburg Summit,” pp. 156-163 (reserve).

* GPB, Memo, “Excerpt from the Jo’burg Memo,” pp. 171-178 (reserve).

* GPB, Lele, “Sustainable Development: A Critical Review,” pp. 252-262 (reserve).

* Yamin, “NGOs and International Environmental Law: A Critical Evaluation of their Roles and Responsibilities,” Review of European Community and International Environment Law (RECIEL), 10:2, p. 149 (July 2001).

For More information on Jo’burg:

Official website: www.johannesburgsummit.org

UN site: http://www.un.org/events/wssd/

Stakeholder Forum for our Common Future: www.earthsummit2002.org

IISD ENB coverage: http://www.iisd.ca/2002/wssd/ 

Extensive links to documents and articles on the WSSD conference and preparatory process: http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/confrnce/indexsustain.htm

The World Conservation Union WSSD site : http://www.iucn.org/wssd/

KEY:

• IEL = International Environmental Law, Lakshman D. Guruswamy & Brent Hendricks, West Publishing (2003).

• 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).