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.
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:
Students should have basic knowledge of EU and international law
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
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.
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.
Ricevimento: Monday 11.00 AM - 1.00 P.M. in Via Balbi, 22, by appointment (c/o former Sezione di Diritto internazionale e della navigazione) or on Microsoft Teams platform. E-mail: francesco.munari@unige.it For further information, see http://www.ddg.unige.it/index.php/14-personale/414-munari-francesco-pagina-personale.
FRANCESCO MUNARI (President)
see the calendar of the lessons for the relevant academic year - https://giurisprudenza.unige.it/didattica_lezioni
The exam is oral. Attending students will be offered the opportunity to take the exam in written form at the end of the cycle of lectures.
The oral exam consists of at least two questions on topics that are representative of the whole course program. The written exam consists of multiple choice as well as open questions on all the topics discussed during lectures. Further information on the written exam will be provided in class. For both the oral and the written exam, the assessment aims to ascertaining the understanding and knowledge of rules of international and EU law applicable to environmental protection, to verify the capacity of students to conduct critical analysis as well as to apply the above-mentioned rules to the solution of practical legal questions. Performance evaluation will be based not only on the degree of knowledge of the topics, but also on the quality of exposition, on the use of appropriate technical language and on the capacity to conduct critical analysis and reasoning.
