Environmental Litigation (LAWS8187)

Environmental Litigation (LAWS8187) is a postgraduate law course to be offered by the Australian Centre for Environmental Law (ACEL) at the Australian National University (ANU) College of Law in Canberra on 27-29 May 2009 .

The course is designed:

• to provide an understanding of the theory and practice of environmental litigation in Australia; and

• to use scenario-based learning (i.e. active learning through problem-solving involving specific factual situations) to provide an integrated and practical knowledge of environmental litigation as a part of the environmental regulatory mix.

The course is aimed primarily at environmental lawyers in private practice or community legal centres and staff in Commonwealth, State, Territory and local government environment and natural resource departments.

Non-lawyers studying environmental law and policy are also encouraged to enrol as the course does not assume an in-depth knowledge of litigation.

The course is not specifically designed to teach civil and criminal procedure or substantive environmental laws but these topics are an incidental component of the course.

A preliminary course outline is available here.