
Explore the rise of environmental law from nuisance and negligence to milestones like the Stockholm declaration, Rio 1992, and Johannesburg 2002, alongside Indian constitutional duties, emphasizing sustainable development and biodiversity.
Explores the stockholm declaration as the grand norm of international environmental law, detailing human influence on the environment, and the duty of states to protect biodiversity and resources.
Examine how the Stockholm Declaration established jus cogens, polluter pays, and precautionary principles, and trace international environmental treaties to Indian environmental law.
Analyze the Bhopal tragedy to explore inadequacies in Indian environmental law, from Union Carbide liability to the doctrine of absolute liability and polluter pays.
Explore major Indian environmental law milestones, including the Bhopal tragedy, Exxon Valdez, and MC Mehta versus Union of India, with emphasis on inter-state water disputes and rehabilitation of the displaced.
Survey of Indian environmental cases from MC Mehta and Adarsh to Ratlam, highlighting public nuisance, statutory authority, coastal zone violations, and the National Green Tribunal's role.
Explore biodiversity as the earth's flora, fauna, genes, and ecosystems, defined through inclusive and exhaustive terms, and its evolutionary growth from Lamarck to Darwin shaping environmental law.
Explore genetic biodiversity, species biodiversity, and ecosystem biodiversity, from monoculture and green revolution to biodiversity threats and biopiracy, highlighting conservation and international law.
Explain how the Convention on Biological Diversity, Cartagena Protocol, and Nagoya Protocol drive India's National Biodiversity Act, emphasizing prior informed consent, access and benefit-sharing, and sustainable use of genetic resources.
Examines the common heritage of mankind in biodiversity through the law of the sea, Antarctica, and outer space, and India’s biodiversity act, biopiracy, bioprospecting, and geographical indicator debates.
Critically examines India's Biodiversity Act, arguing it externalizes common heritage into sovereign control. It outlines required permissions and benefit sharing, with potential negative impacts on research, innovation, and farmers.
This course will provide functional legal skills in two important and interrelated disciplines in law, namely Environment and Biodiversity. When this instructor was a student neither Environmental nor Bio-Diversity laws were taught in law schools, even as an optional, but then a lot of water had flown under the bridge after Stockholm Declaration and Rio de Janeiro Bio-Diversity conventions and its Optional Protocol. This course will chronicle the developments of the Last 40 years.
This course is specially meant for students taking UGC NET (Law) Civil services and Judges Recruitment examination. This course is also important for those involved in technology and agriculture-related laws. In this Course along with 420 mins of video presented in 11 sessions of roughly 45 mins each, there are two focused PowerPoints on Stockholm Declaration and Indian developments. The instructors’ earlier blogs on Bio-Diversity and Animal Protection laws are given as supplementary reading material.
The instructor does not claim to provide all the essential information on the topic. Before taking the course, the learners are requested to browse through the essential legislation on the topic. For law students taking university exams and those preparing for competitive law examinations, this course would be ideal as a revision aid. Since the course covers a lot of current developments relating to Environment and Bio-Diversity, the learner can hope to answer many of the questions that will form part of the General Studies question paper.