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LAWS 4800

Environment and Social Justice

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

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.

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