Environmental law

The course intends to provide students with an understanding of the legal and policy frameworks governing environmental problems at the European level within the concept of sustainable development. Special attention is drawn to the notion of environment, EU environmental law sources and principles, prevention and remediation of environmental damage and liability mechanism, enforcement of the EU environmental law at Member States levels, environmental impact assessment, waste policy, techniques for environmental management. The course examines also leading cases in EU law and the regulation, challenges and opportunities faced by specific sectors in particular: Biodiversity, Waste Policy and Management, Public Procurement.
The contents of course allow students to get aware of the public point of view of common goods safeguard and management, and - together with the courses of Law of territorial government and public contracts and Natural Resource Economics - will lie down the economic and legal bases for design and coordinate interventions of protection and enhancement of environment and territory.

Knowledge and understanding. At the end of the course, students will know the legal and policy frameworks governing environmental problems at the European level and will be able to understand their complexity, challenges and opportunities.
Applying Knowledge and Understanding: At the end of the course, students will be able to locate and analyse EU environmental law and case law and apply environmental general principles to key environmental problems.
The students will develop analytical and problem-solving skills also through case studies, class projects and discussions.