Emerging Sustainable Development Law 4030-ESDLg
Idea of sustainable development and its legal dimension
Constitutionalization of sustainable development
Sustainable development and principles of international law
Sustainable development from the perspective of human rights
Recent developments in sustainable development law
Legal implementation of the UE’s climate policy: from the Green Deal to the CSRD
Legal instruments of GHG reductions
Cross-border issues of sustainable development law
Implementation of sustainable development law on the national level
Type of course
Mode
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Completion of the course will enable the students to:
- Indicate basic elements of the concept of international sustainable development law
- Indicate main stakeholders of sustainable development law on international level
- Know legal principles of sustainable development law
- Get oriented in recent developments in sustainable development law
- Define legal dimension of sustainable development
- Understand decision-making processes
- Know legal requirements and implementing measures of sustainable development
- Know how to implement the international legal concept of sustainable development into national level
Assessment criteria
Activity during the classes and a written exam
Practical placement
Not required
Bibliography
• Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, Oxford 1987
• M-C.Cordonier Segger, A.Khalfan, Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Practice and Prospects, Oxford 2004.
• N. Schrijver, F. Weiss (eds.), International Law and Sustainable Development. Principles and Practice, Leiden/Boston 2004.
• H. Ch. Bugge, Ch. Voigt (eds.), Sustainable development in national and international law, Groningen 2008
• The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1, United Nations (2015).
• The European Convention on Human Rights (1950).
• The Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (1998).
• The Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2015).
• Communication from the Commission "The European Green Deal" COM (2019) 640 final
• Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/1999 (‘European Climate Law')
• Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Region "A sustainable finance framework that works on the ground" COM (2023) 317 final
Additional information
Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system: