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Syllabus - Environmental Law

Submitted by Prateek Kher on

Unit 1: Concept of Environment and Pollution

Unit 2: International Historical Perspective

  • Stockholm Conference
  • Rio Conference
  • UN Declaration on the Right to Develop
  • Greenhouse Effect and Ozone Depletion

Unit 3: Constitutional Provisions Related to Environment

  • Constitution Making: Development and Property-Oriented Approach
  • Directive Principles: Status, Role, and Interrelationship with Fundamental Rights and Duties
  • Fundamental Duty
  • Judicial Approach
  • Fundamental Rights: Right to Clean and Healthy Environment, Environment vs Development
  • Enforcing Agencies and Remedies: Court, Tribunal, Constitutional, Statutory, and Judicial Remedies
  • Emerging Principles: Polluter Pays, Public Liability Insurance, Precautionary Principles
  • Sustainable Development

Unit 4: Environment Protection Measures vs. Environment Pollution

  • Protection Agencies: Powers and Functions
  • Protection: Means and Sanctions
  • Emerging Protection through Delegated Legislation
  • Hazardous Waste and Biomedical Waste
  • Judiciary: Complex Problems in Administration of Environmental Justice

Unit 5: Forest and Wildlife Protection

  • Greenery Conservation Law
  • Forest Conservation
  • Conservation Agencies
  • Prior Approval and Non-Forest Purpose
  • Symbiotic Relationship and Tribal People
  • Denudation of Forest: Judicial Approach
  • Wildlife
  • Sanctuaries and National Parks
  • Licensing of Zoos and Parks
  • State Monopoly in the Sale of Wildlife and Wildlife Articles
  • Offenses Against Wildlife

Unit 6: Biodiversity

  • Legal Control
  • Control of Eco-Unfriendly Experimentation on Animals, Plants, Seeds, and Microorganisms