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Environmental Law
Last Updated Date:   4 July 2025


5 Units,  Semester 1

Course Description:
This course delves into the legal frameworks, principles, and challenges in the field of environmental law. It explores how the law addresses, and seeks to address, the most pressing environmental crises of our time, including climate change, biodiversity loss, air and water pollution, and hazardous waste. This course will also investigate how laws will drive the energy transition and influence corporate behaviour towards environmental sustainability. To this end, students will analyse international, regional, and national laws, and examine how their implementation have shaped environmental governance both within Singapore and beyond.

Course Convenor: Sheridan Fellow Mr Justin Lim

Co-teacher(s): NA

Course Codes: LL4021V / LL5021V / LL6021V / LLJ5021V

Contact Hours: 3-hr weekly seminar

Workload: 3 hours

Mode of Assessment: Presentation - 20% & Final Exam - 80%

Preclusions: Students who have taken LX5103 Environmental Law are precluded. Students who have taken Env 2102 in the Bachelor in Environmental Studies (BES) program are precluded.

Prerequisites: For Law students: NUS Compulsory Core Law Curriculum or common law equivalent.

Examination Date: Friday, 28 November 2025 (PM)

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