PART V: FUTURE OF IEL AND THE PLANET
Class 9 (July 27): The Future of IEL: Moving Beyond Kyoto
* Climate Change Presentations
* UN Model Convention on Climate Change
* EL, Chapter 18, “The Future of IEL,” pp. 539-560.
* GEIL, Chapter 5, pp. 154-186.
* RS, Chapter 9, “Taking Good Governance Seriously,” pp. 172-190.
* Pew Center for Climate Change, “Beyond Kyoto: Advancing the International Effort against Climate Change”.
* Each group will read one of the following “Think Pieces” (plus the overview) to present to the class along with 1-2 page analysis paper.
All READ: Overview: Climate Crossroads
EACH GROUP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
1. A Long-Term Target: Framing the Climate Effort
2. Climate Commitments: Assessing the Options
3. Equity and Climate: In Principle and Practice
4. Addressing Cost: The Political Economy of Climate Change
5. Development and Climate: Engaging Developing Countries
6. Trade and Climate: Potential Conflicts and Synergies
Class 10 (Aug 1): IEL Mechanisms for Change
* Inuit Presentations
* Sands, “International Human Rights and Environment,” in Principles of IEL, pp. 291-307 (reserve).
* Kiss, “An Introductory Note on a Human Right to Environment,” in Environmental Change and International Law, 1992, pp. 199-204.
* Shelton, “The Environmental Jurisprudence of Int’l Human Rights Tribunals,” pp. 1-12; 18-23 (reserve).
* Taillant, “Environmental Advocacy and the IAHRs System,” pp. 118-158 (reserve).
* Wiersema (2003), “Sharing Common Ground: A Cautionary Tale of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Protection of Biological Diversity,” pp. 162-77 (reserve).
* Fisher, “Bridging the Human Rights-Environment Divide: Manifesting Ecological Rights,” pp. 1-26.
* Each group will read one of the sections of the Inuit Petition to the IACHR (InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights) to present to the class along with 1-2 page analysis paper (on their section) using the readings above to clarify the legal arguments made on the Inuit’s behalf.
American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
1. Part A & B.1: Human Rights of Indigenous People Interpreted within their Context of Culture and History (pp. 70-4) and Effects of GW Violate Inuit Right to Enjoy Culture (pp. 74-8)
2. Part B.2 & B.3: Effects of GW Violate Inuit Right to Property (Land and Personal Property) (pp. 79-85)
3. Part B.4 & B.5: Effects of GW Violate Inuit Right to Preservation of Health and Right to Life, Physical Integrity and Security (pp. 85-91)
4. Part B.6 & B.7: Effects of GW Violate Inuit Right to their own Means of Subsistence & Rights to Residence and Movement and Inviolability of the Home (pp. 92-5)
5. Part C: American Declaration should be Applied within the Context of Int'l Norms and Principles (pp. 96-103)
6. Part D: Acts or Omissions Violate Human Rights of Inuit (103-111)
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Group1 |
Group 2 |
Group 3 |
Group 4 |
Group 5 |
Group 6 |
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Culture/History |
Land/Prop |
Health & Security |
Subsistence & Travel |
Int’l Norms |
Acts of US viol HRs |
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Matt Angela Justin |
Leslie Hannah Sarichon |
Mari Marc Lisa |
Sean Dajuan Chris |
Cindi Nobil Sobashi |
David Howard Hiral |
Class 11 (Aug 3): FINAL PAPER DUE AT 4:00PM IN CLASSROOM.
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).