OVERVIEW

The course aims at providing participating students with a critical analysis of principles, rules and current trends of European Union and international environmental and climate law.

AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course analyzes the most important problems and rules concerning the EU and transnational environmentl and climate protection.

At the end of the course, students are expected to:

• Understand why the environment and climate, although being a paramount issue for humanity, have not developed a transnational legal framework adequate to the level of the challenge
• Know the most important areas of transnational and climate law
• Understand how the EU environmental and climate law differ from other legal systems and from the international global law
• Understand the technical difficulties in setting rules capable of protecting and improvong environment and climate
• Critically examine pieces of EU and international legislation on this matter, as well as case-law
• Understand how environmental/climate law interact with all other fields of law
• Understand how an holistic legal approach can improve the proection of the planet
• Expose issues relating to EU and transnational environmental law using adequate technical language, in both the oral and written form

PREREQUISITES

Students should have basic knowledge of EU and international law

TEACHING METHODS

Lessons shall be in presence

-       power point presentations shall accompany each lesson. These presentations shall be thereafter uploaded on Aulaweb (blog page of the course) for their downloading;

-       students shall find on Aulaweb in advance the pages of the textbook and of the other teaching materials covered by the lesson, for their pre-reading. For non-Italian speaking students, and anyway for all interested students, studies, articles and essays are uploaded as materials whose reading is sufficient to have a knowledge and prepare the relevant topics examined during the course.

PRE-READING IS VERY IMPORTANT, SINCE IT ALLOWS A MUCH BETTER INTERACTION BETWEEN THE PROFESSOR AND THE STUDENTS. IT ALSO HELPS SUBSTANTIALLY TO SUCCESSFULLY AND MORE EFFICIENTLY PREPARE THE EXAM DURING THE COURSE.

Teaching will be moreover heavily based on the study of relevant case-law and documents, and implies an informed participation by the students. Most of these materials has been uploaded already on Aulaweb, while other materials can be uploaded during the course; please note however that not all cases uploaded shall be discussed during the lessons and are therefore for reading purposes only.

In order to ensure the optimal attendance and active participation to the course, students are invited to register as soon as possible and then to book cases they wish to expose: exposition will be considered for the purposes of the final grade of the exam. Students are invited to start booking cases concerning the first topics of the course and then proceed to the subsequent ones. Students can prepare a power point presentation of their case to help their exposé and the comprehension of the case by other students (an example by a former colleague of yours is uploaded together with the materials concerning week one). In order to facilitate student's work you find attached below a short explanation on how to prepare a case-brief to optimize your task in presenting a case

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

After an introductory discourse on 

- How law should deal with environment and how differently it is crafted by policymakers and legal scholars, 

the following topics will be addressed in detail: 

- General features of international environmental law (sources, subjects, substantive norms, enforcement); 

- General features of EU environmental law (competence, substantive norms, impact on domestic legal systems, enforcement and sanctions); 

- Human rights and the environment, and 'rights' of other living beings; 

- Circular economy and waste management in EU (and international) law;

- Environmental protection, international trade and related aspects; 

- International and EU governance of atmospheric environment; 

- International and EU law on climate change.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

MUNARI – SCHIANO DI PEPE, Tutela transnazionale dell’ambiente, Bologna, 2012.

Equivalent reading materials in English are suggested, indicated and often uploaded below on each topic to students who are not familiar with the Italian language or who prefer to study on English texts.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

see the calendar of the lessons for the relevant academic year -  https://giurisprudenza.unige.it/didattica_lezioni

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy