• Deliver a comprehensive overview of the history of fundamental principles governing international water law, policy, and practice, shaping student's understanding of and responsibility towards global freshwater issues towards both use and management involving rivers and underground water.
• Clarify the role of water law within the framework of international law. It will focus on understanding its sources, relevant treaties, state responsibilities, and notable water law and natural resources cases in international courts.
• Clarify the relationship between International Water Law, Policy, and Practice and domestic legal frameworks within Asia, emphasising the significance of International Water Law within national legal contexts in setting guiding standards to develop their domestic water laws and policies.
• Equip students with training to understand and effectively address transboundary water law issues in a multidisciplinary context because domestic water policies and regulations significantly influence how neighbouring countries interact and collaborate on shared water resources.
• Familiarise students with various International Water Law, Policy, and Practice branches essential for understanding global water governance. This area encompasses a wide range of topics, including treaty law, human rights, environmental protection, climate change impacts, dispute resolution, and policy development.

Open-Book Final Exam:

This assessment comprises complex problem questions and case studies designed to evaluate the student's capacity to articulate the substantive principles of international water law, policy, and practice clearly and coherently in written form.

This assessment task will be thoughtfully structured to challenge students on multiple levels. Overall, this approach assesses knowledge and prepares students for practical application in their future careers.

Grading of Student Achievement: Standard (A+, A, A-...F). Grading is based on student performance in assessment tasks/activities.

To pass this course, students need a total score of at least 40% and a minimum of 30% in both the continuous assessment (CA) component and final exam component. To ensure fair and comprehensive assessment of students’ course performance, the pass mark requirement for the Continuous Assessment (CA) component will be waived for courses with a CA component equal to or less than 30%. This means students only need to achieve the pass marks for the final exam component AND the overall mark to pass the course. Continuous assessment for this purpose means those ways in which students are assessed otherwise than by the final examination.

The duration of the final open book examination is 3 hours.

The portion of the overall mark allocated to performance during in class activities will be assessed on the quality of the participation.

To enable the full benefit to be obtained from this course, students should attend all of the classes and activities.

Assessment will be formative to enable students to demonstrate their capacity to understand, analyse and apply rules and principles and summative to assess ability to synthesise primary and secondary material to solve novel problems.