Objective

This five-day summer course will provide a thorough introduction to EU environmental law. Lectures coupled with case studies, workshop and quiz sessions will offer a comprehensive overview of EU environmental legislation and policy as well as of CJEU case law.

Key topics

• Origins, principles and sources of EU environmental law
• EU environmental law-making
• Implementation and enforcement of EU environmental law
• Public participatory rights
• Substantive legislation: nature and species protection, water protection, air pollution, waste management, climate change and energy law
• Cross-cutting topics: environmental impact assessment, industrial emissions directive, environmental liability, procedural rights
• Workshop and case-study analysis on various topics

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Language: English

Organiser: ERA (Kleoniki Pouikli & Monika Zelinski)

Event number: 419B11

Speakers

An Cliquet, Professor of Environmental Law, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University

Valerie Fogleman, Professor, Law School, Cardiff University; Consultant, Stevens & Bolton LLP

Jerzy Jendrośka, Lawyer, Jendrośka Jerzmanski Bar & Partners. Environmental Lawyers; Environmental Law Center, Opole University, Wrocław

Ludwig Krämer, Derecho y Medio Ambiente, Madrid

Kleoniki Pouikli, Course Director in Environmental Law, ERA; Post-Doctoral Researcher, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Lorenzo Squintani, Senior Assistant Professor, University of Groningen

Peter Vajda, Environmental Expert, Energy Community Secretariat, Vienna

Menno Verheij, Enforcement, Infringements Coordination & Legal Issues Unit, DG Environment, European Commission, Brussels