Course 2023-2024 a.y.

• The main characteristics of environmental law
• Principles of EU Environmental Law (i.e. sustainable development, the precautionary principle, the prevention principle; the source principle; the polluter pays principle).
• Techniques for environmental management: market-based v.command-and-control regulatory strategies: overview.
• The Protection of Nature and Biodiversity
• Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment.
• Regulation of specific sectors (including climate change and air pollution, technological risk regulation, EIA and SEA, etc.).

• Understand the complex nature of environmental problems and the multiple ways in which law applies to and engages with environmental problems.
• Gain a deeper legal understanding of EU environmental principles and the concept of sustainable development.
• Analyze the various regulatory strategies involved in dealing with environmental problems and the role of the key actors involved in implementing such strategies within the EU.
• Gain a solid understanding of EU legal frameworks that apply to key environmental problems, including climate change, protection of the environmental media (air pollution, waste management, technological risk regulation), nature protection and the control of industrial emissions.
• Foster team work, critical and analytical analysis and problem solving (especially through case studies and class projects).

• Locate, read, and analyze EU and domestic environmental law and case law.
• Recognize situations in whichEU environmental law may be useful or essential.
• Be aware of relevant stakeholders, their preferences, and the path by which they can influence EU environmental law.
• Understand the particular challenges related to key environmental problems addressed by environmental law.
• Understand the process by which EU environmental law is negotiated.

• Face-to-face lectures
• Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
• Case studies /Incidents (traditional, online)
• Group assignments

Teaching method is based on active learning and includes lectures and several case studies (as an aid to understanding). Students are expected to ensure regular class attendance (at least 75%) and to actively participate in class discussions and teamwork. Slides and other materials are made available to students beforehand in order to facilitate note taking.

• Students sit a written closed book exam consisting of one open question (a hypothetical scenario the solution to which requires familiarity with, and mastery of, the course materials)  to be answered in 60 minutes. This counts as 85% of the marks. Students can sit this kind of exam only in the first two exam dates.
• Students must also work in-group (max. 6 students per group) to prepare a presentation on a specific topic directly relevant to environmental law as it applies in the European Union. Each group is asked to select a topic at the beginning of the course. The group assignment evaluation counts 15% of the marks.
• The final exam aims to assess the solid understanding of the EU legal framework that applies to key environmental problems, including climate change, protection of the environmental media, technolgical risk regulation, nature protection and the control of industrial emissions

Final written exam consisting of three open questions to be answered in 60 minutes and 8 multiple choice questions.
This counts as 100% of the mark.

The final exam aims to assess the solid understanding of the EU legal framework that applies to key environmental problems, including climate change, protection of the environmental media, technological risk regulation, nature protection and the control of industrial emissions

• F. FRACCHIA, Environmental Law. Principles, Definitions and Protection Models, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2018.
• Cases, materials and selected readings provided and analised during the course (available on BBoard)
• S. KINGSTON, et al, European Environmental Law, Cambridge University Press, 2017 ISBN 978-1-107-640443  (chapters: chapters 5-6-7-8-9-11-12-13).

• F. FRACCHIA, Environmental Law. Principles, Definitions and Protection Models, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2018.
• S. KINGSTON, et al, European Environmental Law, Cambridge University Press, 2017 ISBN 978-1-107-640443  (chapters 5-6-7-8-9-11-12-13).