This six-week intensive course looks at the relationship between the environment and international law and examines how these linkages may assist efforts to protect the environment in the variable global context. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the educational, legal and social aspects of this relationship. The course will address environmental degradation, climate change, mitigation and adaptation, human mobility, human rights-based approaches to the environment, loss and damage, and the international environmental development in the light of the post-2020 development agenda and after the math of COVID-19 pandemic. Under the umbrella of international law and environmental science, the course will pay special attention to hybrid approaches related to the environment and multiple branches of international law, including as a potential strengthening and dispersing method to address the nexus of human rights, human mobility, and the environment.
The course is based on a dynamic pedagogy including reading materials, case studies, and interactive discussion with the professor.
- Professor: Marjolein Schaap