• E4J University Module Series: Wildlife Crime

• Module 2: International Frameworks for Combating Wildlife Trafficking

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Environmental protection and conservation
  • CITES and the international trade in endangered species
  • Organized crime and corruption
  • Animal welfare
  • References

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in September 2019 

Regional Perspective: Eastern and Southern Africa - added in April 2020 

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Advanced reading

 

The following readings are recommended for students interested in exploring the topics of this Module in more detail, and for lecturers teaching the Module:

• Elliott, Lorraine, 'Cooperation on Transnational Environmental Crime: Institutional Complexity Matters' (2017) 26(2) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 107
• Harrop, Stuart, 'Wild Animal Welfare in International Law: The Present Position and the Scope for Development' (2013) 4(4) Global Policy 381
• Ivory, Radha, 'Corruption Gone Wild: Transnational Criminal Law and the International Trade in Endangered Species' (2017) 111 AJIL Unbound 413
• Oldfield, S, (ed), The trade in wildlife: regulation for conservation (2003)
• Sand, Peter H, 'Whither CITES? The Evolution of a Treaty Regime in the Borderland of Trade and Environment' (1997) 1 European Journal of International Law 29
• Wandesford-Smith, Geoffrey, 'Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places? Dying Elephants, Evolving Treaties, and Empty Threats' (2016) 19(4) Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy 365
• Wiersema, Annecoos, 'CITES and the Whole Chain Approach to Combating Illegal Wildlife Trade' (2017) 20(3-4) Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 207

 

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