Legal Framework of Environmental Pollution
by Maria Bekiari
15.04.2021 – 19.07.2021
Online Course
Thursdays, 4 pm
Environmental pollution constitutes one of the biggest and more complex challenges of modern time. Both natural sciences and humanities deal with environmental problems trying to understand their causes and develop effective solutions. In this framework, this course aims to give more light to the environmental pollution from a legal perspective. More precisely, it aims to answer to the following questions: What is the environmental pollution? What are the environmental problems that law has to address? Which are their main characteristics and particularities? What differentiates environmental problems from other types of problems? How has law addressed them? What kind of principles and instruments has it developed in order to control and reduce environmental pollution? What are the shortcomings of the current legal framework and what could be further done? A specific focus will be given to the industrial pollution. At the end of the course, students will get a thorough understanding of the environmental pollution, its aspects, and characteristics, and become familiar with the international, European and German legal framework related to it.