Materi Kuliah Jurusan Hukum tentang Hukum Internasional Dunia Kuliah Intl-law 4-32

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International law and the

Environment

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ASSIGNMENTS

Monday, April 17

• Rio Declaration http://www.unep.org/Documents.multilingual/Default.asp? DocumentID=78&ArticleID=1163

• Stratospheric Ozone Layer p.642

Find and review the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on the internet: http://www.unep.org/ozone/treaties.shtml

• The Shrimp-Turtle Case p.654

• Climate Change Legal Regimes –http://unfccc.int/

http://unfccc.int/resource/convkp.html

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Student Presentations

April 26 - May 5

Attendance is compulsory

• Attendance sheet will be sent around randomly • Exam questions are possible from the

presentations

• – Use other sources (internet: google.com) to

read up on areas that are being presented

(topics will be posted the previous class)

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Presentations

• _{E-mail me}_your_title,_your_name,_and_{3 main}

points 2 days before your presentation [email protected]

• - 5-10 minutes, succinct, write 3 main points on blackboard, no reading of papers- only

notes

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TRAIL SMELTER CASE

• Issue: 1) Does a state always owe a duty

to protect other states against injurious

acts by individuals from within its

jurisdiction?

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TRAIL SMELTER CASE

• Holding: 1) Yes. A state owes at all times

a duty to protect other states against

injurious acts by individuals from within its

jurisdiction.

• 2) No. A state may not cause or allow air

pollution to affect another nation if the

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COMPARISON

Trail Smelter holding-Stockh.21-Rio 2

• Princ. 21 refers to environment – Trail Smelter just refers to property.

• - Princ. 21 extends state responsibility to

damage caused beyond the limits of national jurisdiction – global commons.

• Rio 2 – refers to environment and development Stockh.Princ.21- is considered customary intl

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INTL LAW + ENVIRONM.

• Stockholm Declaration 1972

• Rio Declaration 1992 - http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm

• Johannesburg Plan of Implementation - WSSD

Principles and concepts:

- Sustainable development- development that meets the needs of the present w/o compromising the needs of future generations – OUR COMMON FUTURE - 1987

- Precautionary Principle – Rio Declar. Princ.15 –Example: Montreal Protocol on the Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

- Principle 7 - Common but differential responsibilities – example: Montreat Protocol Art. 5, para.1

- Principle 8 – eliminate unsustainable production and consumption patterns

- Be sure to read all the RIO PRINCIPLES