Overview
Legal framework for minerals ownership, access and exploitation, governance of the electricity and gas industries; energy contracts; environmental issues for energy participants including the emissions trading scheme.
This paper will consider:
- The legal framework for minerals exploitation
- Governance of the electricity and gas industries
- Environmental issues for energy participants, including the emissions trading scheme
About this paper
| Paper title | Energy Law |
|---|---|
| Subject | Law |
| EFTS | 0.1 |
| Points | 15 points |
| Teaching period | Not offered in 2025 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $774.00 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- LAWS 201
- Limited to
- LLB, LLB(Hons)
- Notes
- May not be credited together with LAWS485 passed in 2010-2013 or LAWS477 passed in 2014.
- Contact
- law@otago.ac.nz
- Teaching staff
To be confirmed when paper is next offered.
- Textbooks
- Course materials are provided by the Faculty.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Environmental literacy, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this paper will:
- Understand the structure of the energy industry in New Zealand
- Identify and be able to critique the main regulatory approaches used in governing the NZ energy industry
- Identify the main challenges facing the regulation of the energy industry
- Have gained experienced in researching, evaluating and critiquing the complex case law, legislation and policy documentation prevalent in this field
- Have practised formulating and testing complex legal arguments
- Have experienced working with colleagues to formulate solutions to the problems set