Course Name	Environmental law
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Kyong-Hwan Hwang
	Department	Law school

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives

Inform students of environmental problems, policy matters about solving  environmental pollution by reviewing many kinds of law regulating environmental issue. I will cover not only domestic environmental law but also international environmental law because environmental impact is globalized issue. We will study how the law is made especially regarding statutory law and executive order compared with USA.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Korea Environmental  Law Translation Version. Environmental Law emanuel law outlines published by ASPEN. Internet world environmental news.

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments: Students must bring environmental news copy in internet and present it.

Grading Scheme: attendance and class participation are 30 %. Writing examination including midterm and the end of semester examination is 70%. This course is not evaluated by relative standard but professor's discretion.

COURSE SCHEDULE

Course Outline

This course provides a brief introduction instead of in-depth stuty about environment. Usually law is likely to be connected with litigation that is case and legal dispute. But I will focus on more world environmental problem than boring and hard law subject. In law matter we will touch some law and rule making process in Korea compared with USA. We will review constitutional law provision which is supreme law and the basis of statutory law and executive order in order to know the state idea toward the environmental protection. We will read the main and basic statutory law which is framework act on environmental policy and act on assessment of impacts of works on environment, traffic, disasters and environmental dispute adjustment act. After finishing domestic law, we will move over international environmental law led by UN. So we will check transboundary pollution, ozone depletion and global warming, wildlife preservation, marine environment, deforestation, desertification/land degradation, international trade and environment. As mentioned above we will observe world environmental news happening every day by internet news.

Finally we will deal with precedent case which is important and necessary to understand the application of law to real environmental area.  In order to accomplish our goal of this course, the participation of students who speak english well are required absolutely. Also students who hesitate to apply for this course due to incapacity of english but want to know environment problem are welcome. After this course, students' word power may be greatly increased and recognize the grave seriousness of environmental pollution. This course will be good motive for you to protect and preserve environment

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: office: 6680 ; e-mail: hkhlaw@hanmail.net.  . foreign students or any students who use english well and interested in environmental issue are welcomed.