Ateneo - UPO

The course aims at giving to the students a comprehensive overview of E.U. environmental law and its relationship with the national legal orders (in particular: the Italian one). Lesson will have a "practical approach", but this part of the course will be preceded by a general introduction to E.U. Law, its sources and the relationship between E.U. Law and national law, in order to allow students to better understand the environmental issues.

Foreign Students can use a Handbook in English or their mother tongue with the agreement of the teacher.

Having attended lessons, students achieve full awareness of E.U. environmental law and its interactions with national rules; the relationship between the international framework, EU environmental law and the national enforcement, also from the "private" side.

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Lectures, seminars and working groups

students are strongly recomended to attend classes. The teacher will follow the instructions given by the University with regard to the possibility to mix classes with "on-line" lectures.

Oral examination. The assessment will be focused on the following skills: the ability to organise and present the knowledge aquired; ability to critical reasoning; particular attention will be paid to the quality of the exhibition and the competence in the use of the specialized lexicon, performance and linearity in the exposition. The teacher could agree with students that attend lectures the possibility to make intermediate or early examinations.

1) The institutional framework of E.U. Law; 2) E.U. sources and their relationship with the national legal order; 3) E.U. environmental law; 4) the link between international environmental law, E. U. environmental law and the national enforcement in the same field; 5) chosen themes of European environmental and sustainability law: the European green deal and the state of progress of its implementation; circular economy, waste, by-products and end-of-waste; EU and international standards for combating climate change; the role of consumers in the EU’s green strategy: green claims and the fight against greenwashing in the European Union; deforestation regulation, due diligence and restore nature regulation

At the end of the course students are supposed to have acquired the following skills: awareness of the European integration process in its historical, political, economic and juridical premises; knowledge of the EU institutional framework and of the sources of the European Union law; knowledge of the juridical relationship between the two legal orders and of the judicial proceedings in the ambit of the ECJ jurisdiction; knowledge of the environmental EU law.
Students must also demonstrate that they have acquired a good competence in terms of analysis of cases, texts or EU rules, capability to identify the fundamental elements of a specific topic (synthesis), find solutions to the most common issues in the ambit of the EU environmental law and of its relationship with national legal orders/national rules.