Spring 2025
Professor(s):
Chinonso Anozie (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law
International Law
Time: 2:30p-4:00p MW Location: 311
Course Outline: Global Regulation and Impact explores the relationship between international law, global energy, and natural resource activities. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the legal and policy frameworks governing global extraction, production, management, and transport of energy and natural resources, as well as trade and investment in this sector. It analyzes the legal and policy framework governing the global energy extractive industry and its intersection with the environment, providing students with real-world examples and case studies. This course will also provide an overview of sustainability governance in energy and natural resource development and the global utilization of energy policies as an enforcement tool, inspiring students to engage with these issues in their future careers.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Prerequisites:
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule: 05/02/202512:00:00
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: See below
i. International Energy Law, Second Edition by Mohammad Naseem, Saman Naseem, (2021), ISBN: 9789403533131
ii. Research Handbook on International Energy Law, Edited by Kim Talus. (2014), ISBN: 9781781002193
iii. The International Law of Energy (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Series Number 164) - ISBN: 9781108235273
