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Course ID: M37014JV
Credits: 3
Course Prerequisites: None
Course Description and Goals:
*Understand international environmental law regime and relevant important instruments
*Enhance the ability to search, read, and analyze legal documents
*Gain understandings of environmental sustainability
*Provide professional analysis and critical thinking on contemporary fishery-related issues
Schedule Type:
This course focuses on three issues related to fisheries management, i.e., marine pollution, human rights and the fishing industry, and climate change. The instructor will give an overview introduction, explaining the problems we are encountering. Examples and relevant regulations will be discussed during class. Students are required to give a presentation on a designated topic and provide legal advice and policy suggestion as a professional.
Course Schedule (subject to change):
Week 1. Course introduction
Week 2. Marine pollution: How the problem occurs
Week 3. Marine pollution: Relevant international laws
Week 4. Marine pollution: Case discussion - 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Week 5. Marine pollution: Case discussion – Radioactive waste disposal by Japan
Week 6. Marine pollution: Taiwan’s law and policy
Week 7. Marine pollution: Presentation
Week 8. Human rights and the fishing industry: How the problem occurs
Week 9. Human rights and the fishing industry: Relevant international laws
Week 10.Human rights and the fishing industry: Taiwan’s law and policy
Week 11.Human rights and the fishing industry: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Week 12.Human rights and the fishing industry: Presentation
Week 13.Climate change: How the problem occurs
Week 14.Climate change: Atmosphere and ozone layer
Week 15.Climate change: Carbon reduction and international governance
Week 16.Climate change and sea level rise
Week 17.
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