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Environmental Law Course Overview

This document outlines the objectives, scope, grading, and reading materials for an Environmental Law course offered on Tuesday evenings at MLQU School of Law. The course objectives are to introduce students to key environmental law concepts, laws, and procedures in the Philippines as well as foster environmental awareness and responsibility. Topics to be covered include the Philippine Constitution, natural resources law, environmental impact assessments, pollution laws, and environmental procedures. Student performance will be evaluated based on exams, quizzes, assignments, and attendance. Recommended textbooks and reference materials are also listed.

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Environmental Law Course Overview

This document outlines the objectives, scope, grading, and reading materials for an Environmental Law course offered on Tuesday evenings at MLQU School of Law. The course objectives are to introduce students to key environmental law concepts, laws, and procedures in the Philippines as well as foster environmental awareness and responsibility. Topics to be covered include the Philippine Constitution, natural resources law, environmental impact assessments, pollution laws, and environmental procedures. Student performance will be evaluated based on exams, quizzes, assignments, and attendance. Recommended textbooks and reference materials are also listed.

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  • Objectives
  • Specific Objectives
  • Recommended Readings
  • Course Content

ATTY. GALAHAD R.A.

PE BENITO MLQU SCHOOL OF LAW


ENVIRONMENTAL LAW TUESDAY 6-9 PM

Objectives:
1. To present to students basic policy concepts, terms, and approaches to natural
resources law and environmental regulation.
2. To study the essentials of environmental procedure and the writ of kalikasan.
3. To introduce to students the essentials of the environmental impact system, the
Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Solid Waste Management Act.
4. To make students environmentally conscious, aware of their environmental rights
under the law, and responsible for their actions that impact upon the environment.

Specific Objectives:
1. To allow the students to draft a program for solving the traffic crisis in Metro
Manila;
2. To allow the students to draft a program for the clean-up of Boracay and other
tourist spots.

Scope: Introduction to Environmental Law; Philippine Constitution; Natural Resources


Law; Mining Laws; Clean Water Act; Clean Air Act; Solid Waste Act; Environmental
Impact System; Marine Pollution; Rules of Environmental Procedure.

Grading:
30% - Final Exam
25% - Midterm Exam
25% - Quizzes and Recitation
10% - Book Review
10% - Reports and Attendance

Textbooks:
1. ECC Basics
2. Environmental Law: Pollution Control

Recommended Readings:
1. Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action (Vintage Books)
2. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (Mariner Books)

Suggested Reference Materials:


1. Reconciling Environment and Trade (Edith Brown Weiss and John Jackson, eds.,
Transnational Publishers, Inc.)
2. Robert V. Percival, Alan S. Miller, Charles H. Schroeder, and James P. Leape,
Environmental Regulation (3d ed., Aspen L. & Bus.)
3. Oliver A. Houck, Natural Resources Law, vol. 1 (Tulane Law School)
4. Robert Force, Marine Pollution, vol. 2 (Maritime Law Center, Tulane)
5. Lakshman Guruswamy, International Environmental Law (2d ed., Thomson West)
6. Al Gore, Earth in the Balance (Penguin Group)
7. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (Ballantines Book 1970)

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