General Assessment Information:

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments.

Detailed marking rubrics will be made available on iLearn.

All assessments that receive a FAIL grade are double marked.

All assessments in the Unit are to be submitted electronically. Plagiarism detection software is used in this Unit.

Where there is a word limit no work over the limit will be read by the marker.

REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED TEXTS AND/OR MATERIALS

Prescribed Textbook

Philippe Sands and Jacqueline Peel (et al) Principles of Environmental Law (Fourth edition) (Cambridge University Press, 2018) ISBN: 978-1-108-43112-5

Recommended Additional Texts If you have not done international law before it may be useful to have access to a basic international law text, such as: Dixon, M, Textbook on International Law, London: Blackstone Press Ltd, 6th ed 2007; OR Shaw, M N, International Law, Cambridge University Press, 6th ed 2008; OR Triggs, G., International Law: Contemporary Principles and Practices, LexisNexis Australia, 2nd ed, 2011.

UNIT WEBPAGE AND TECHNOLOGY USED AND REQUIRED 

The unit will be taught as both an External unit and as an Internal unit. Attendance at the On Campus Session (OCS) is compulsory. If you cannot attend the OCS then you are advised to not enrol in the course. If you refer to the assessment section you will see that class participation is assessed during the OCS.

Workload

The workload in a 3cp undergraduate unit and a 4cp postgraduate unit is equivalent to 150 hours. A student should devote ten hours of study per week to the unit (inclusive of listening to lectures, required reading, tutorials and assessment preparation.) However, this is a guide only and each student should assess the hours required based on his/her own specific needs. Note that students are expected to work on private study, assignments completion, etc, in the two-week mid-semester break. 

Delivery

This unit heavily utilizes iLearn for all communication purposes. Announcements, lecture recordings, assessments etc. all operate upon the iLearn platform. 

 It is therefore vital that students familiarize themselves with the iLearn platform and its operations if they haven’t done so previously. 

Students should regularly check the unit web page on iLearn to keep up with information for students entered by the Unit Convenor. There may be information placed on the web page at short notice concerning attendance, cancelled or postponed classes and relevant assessment items and dates. Attending on the right dates is your responsibility and mistakes with attendance may result in your failing of the unit.

Further, iLearn is utilised for the purposes of discussion forums, both teacher led and those that are exclusively for the use of students. It is highly recommended that students keep up to date with forum discussion as it features topical news items relevant to the course etc.

CLASSES

There is a two hour lecture and one hour tutorial each week unless specified in the schedule. Please note that classes begin in Week 1 of the semester.

The tutorials will discuss the topics covered in the lecture from the previous week, e.g. the tutorials in week 2 will cover the topics covered in the lecture from week 1. 

All lectures are recorded. Recordings can be uploaded from the iLearn page. 

Each weekly tutorial discussion will be based upon the listed questions for that week. Students are expected to attend each tutorial having considered their answers and be prepared for discussion. 

All assessment tasks are to be completed. 

The assessment scheme has changed through the deletion of online participation forums as detailed under the Assessment Tasks Tab.