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Other Courses in Environmental Resource Law Offered at U.B.C. Law 391: Topics in Environmental Law To permit a more critical and more in-depth analysis, problems in Canadian environmental law are placed in a comparative context. The comparative framework encompasses European and international environmental law. The following three topics are considered (i) issues in the reform of environmental liability law; (ii) models for the accommodation of different levels of jurisdiction over environmental matters; and (iii) issues of implementation, compliance with and enforcement of environmental law. The course begins with consideration of conflicts between the federal government and the provincial governemnts over ownership and control of natural resources. The methods by which governmentas dispose of natural resources are studied by analyzing the legal nature of Crown tenures and the terms and conditions of fisheries, mining, oil, and forestry leases and agreements. Other issues included are: conservation, impact assessment and review of resource development projects, and aboriginal rights and concerns. The objective of this course is to identify and describe emerging water law and policy issues in Canada. The course offers an opportuity to examine diverse legal prinicples - ranging from judicial interpretation of old treaties to administrative implementation of recent laws and international agreements - affecting efforts to manage, preserve, restore and fairly allocate the resource. Students are exposed to concepts of real property law, constitutional law, the formation of public policy, administrative procedure, alternative dispute resolution and international law and custom. This course is an overview of mining law with an emphasis on British Columbia and concerns and the laws related to mineral exploration and development. The course provides a brief geological overview together with a history of Crown grants and mineral statutes. Boards and hearings under the mining statutes together with provisions regarding claim staking, assessment work and filings are dealt with. An overview of related environmental issues and mine development is also discussed. Case law, including definitions, disputes under the Act, contractual issues, trust situations, liens and statutory material is reviewed. Regulation of the forest requires a complex balancing of the interests of many groups and a growing awareness of the importance and sensitivity of the forest resource. Some of the most challenging questions that will face lawyers and foresters in the next decade will arise out of the interface between the respective visions for resource management held by industry and other resource users. This course focuses on an examination of that interface. This course investigates legal regimes for the exploitation and regulation of fisheries. This course looks at legal regimes for the disposition of interests in petroleum and
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