This course will teach students about the liability for environmental damage and how to measure and recover from it.
This course, "Civil Liability for Environmental Harm", delves into the legal principles and mechanisms used to address damage to the environment.
Environmental harm, ranging from physical contamination and biodiversity loss to impacts on ecological services and human health, presents complex challenges. This course explores how civil liability frameworks attempt to provide remedies and compensation for such damage.
Key topics covered include:
By examining common law principles and various statutory regimes, participants will gain insight into the evolving landscape of environmental law and the pursuit of accountability for those responsible for environmental harm.
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Jamie Benidickson is a member of the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, where he teaches environmental law and administrative law. He is the author of Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed (UBC Press, 2019). His previous publications include The Temagami Experience: Recreation, Resources and Aboriginal Rights in the Northern Ontario Wilderness (University of Toronto Press, 1989), Idleness, Water and a Canoe: Reflections on Paddling for Pleasure (University of Toronto Press, 1997), and The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage (UBC Press, 2007).
