E-Learning and Webinars

In July 2021, Biffa Waste Services Ltd was  fined £1.5 million for breaking export law, in what the judge called “reckless, bordering on deliberate.” Biffa’s latest breaches of export law uncovered by the Environment Agency involved rolling contracts to send vast amounts of waste to India and Indonesia.  We will hear from Howard McCann, the barrister who handled the case, about this successful prosecution and the international cooperation that made it possible.

This session presented best practices in teaching environmental law in an international setting. Participants discussed the essential elements of the syllabus, content and pedagogy for teaching environmental law and analyzed existing syllabi to find essential common elements. 

This is the third session in the Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program that ran from September to December 2021 and was hosted by the Republic of the Philippines Legal Education Board in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (IUCNAEL) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

This session discussed the standard syllabus in teaching environmental law and covered the skills required in crafting and developing a course syllabus.

This is the launch of the Legal Education Board’s 12-week Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program in support of its Revised Model Curriculum of the Basic Law Program (RMLC), which has provided for the mandatory teaching of environmental and natural resources law as a non-core subject in all Philippine law schools. 

In this webinar, Professor Amanda Kennedy from the Queensland University of Technology’s Faculty of Law speaks on optimizing e-Learning resources she has developed on the core principles of environmental law.  This focuses on parts 7-10 of the e-learning modules.