LAWS 4800
Environment and Social Justice
The potential of environmental law to protect the environment and people while promoting opportunities for informed participation in environmental decision making by groups traditionally excluded from these processes; contemporary issues of social justice raised by legal regulation of the environment.
2026
Topics
- [January 9] Introduction
- [January 16]: Concept of Environmental and Social Justice
- [January 23]: Environmental Racism and Impact on Human Health
- [January 30]: Global Environmental Justice and TWAIL
- [February 6]: Environmental Justice in the Canadian Context
- [February 13]: Indigenous Legal Orders and Environmental Justice
Readings
- 2 LAWS 4800 A Winter 2026
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): LAWS 2908 and fourth-year Honours standing. Seminars three hours a week.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Environmental & Social Justice ↗2026