Water
Law presents a mix of Lebanese and
Comparative regulatory regimes over a
resource that is scarce yet ubiquitous and,
of course, essential to life. This course will
consider different rights and regimes for
water, including prior appropriation, riparian
rights, and groundwater rights. It will also
look at how the public trust doctrine and
environmental protection can affect those
water rights. The course will compare the
view of water as a human right.
Although the course considers Water Law
at a national level, the objective will be not
just to learn how water is regulated, but also
to develop an understanding of the benefits
and flaws of the various rights regimes
in order to predict how water should be
regulated as it becomes an increasingly
scarce resource.
Language of Instruction: English (legal terms,
however, are also given in Arabic and French).