Emerging Sustainable Development Law

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During the course, the students will learn about the emergence and growth of importance of sustainable development law, a field integrating environmental, economic and social aspects of law. The course offers a overview over legal framework for sustainability including recent developments in international law.

The concept of sustainable development and its legal definition

Constitutionalization of sustainable development.

Principles of international law related to sustainable development.

Human rights dimension of sustainable development.

Recent development in sustainable development law

From Green Deal to CSRD - how policy is transformed into law on the EU level

Legal instrument of GHG reductions

Cross-border sustainable development legal issues.

Operationalizing sustainable development – from global to internal level.

• • World Commission on Environemnt and Development, Our Common Future, Oxford University Press 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.

• 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

After completion of the course the student will know:

- the basic elements of international legal concept of sustainable development including international actors and stake holders;

- legal principles of sustainable development law;

- recent development in sustainable development law;

- definition of sustainable development and sustainable investment;

- the basis for decision-making;

- what are the legal requirements and implementing measures of sustainable development;

- how to implement the international legal concept of sustainable development into national legal systems.

Written exam

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