International Aspects of Environmental Law

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This course focuses on the in-depth treatment of selected chapters from international and European environmental law:

• International climate and environmental agreements
• European and national regulatory framework
• EU directives and regulations for climate and environmental protection

The course imparts professional and methodological skills (F/M), with a focus on international environmental law, in particular international climate protection agreements as well as environmental legislation at European level. The students

• know selected international agreements on environmental and climate protection
• know the main features of the history of European and international environmental law and can explain its systematic approach
• are familiar with the process of legislation at the European level
• have an in-depth insight into selected aspects of European environmental legislation

•     Lecture with integrated exercises
•     Case studies, presentation and interactive legal debates

• Evaluation of the completed exercises (in class, 20%),

• Oral final exam (40%) and

• Oral presentations by the students (40%)

For a positive grade, a minimum of 50% of the possible points must be achieved in each part of the examination.

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• Internationales Umweltrecht, Alexander Proelss (Hrsg), 2. Auflage 2022 (ISBN 978-3-11-071191-2)
• Internationales Umweltrecht, Hans-Georg Dederer, 2023 (ISBN 9783811440203)
• Rechtsquellen Umweltrecht, Schriftenreihe Umweltrecht und Umwelttechnikrecht Band 5, Rainer Weiss, 2022 (ISBN 978-3-99113-771-9)
• Kodex EU-Umweltrecht 2023, Doralt (Hrsg.), 2022 (ISBN 9783700781196)
• Research Handbook on International Environmental Law, Malgosia Fitzmaurice/ Panos Merkouris/Agnes Rydberg, 2021 (ISBN 978 1 78643 970 3)
• Principles of International Environmental Law, Philippe Sands, Jacqueline Peel, 4. Auflage 2018 (Cambridge University Press; ISBN-10 1108431127, ISBN-13 9781108431125)

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