The lecture series is aimed at students with the specialisation SPB 4, 5 and 25 but is also open to all interested students including exchange students.

Basic understanding of public international law is of advantage and recommended.

Gegen Ende des Semesters wird eine Leistungskontrollklausur zu den Schwerpunktbereichen, 4, 5 und 25 angeboten.

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By the end of the course, students will be familiar with the main principles, legal tools and legal concepts that underpin the special legal regime of international environmental law (IEL). This legal regime will have been scrutinized as a ‘branch’ of international law, with its own institutions, actors and legal sources. Specific sub-specialized regulatory regimes of IEL will have been addressed (i.e. the hydrosphere, the atmosphere and the biosphere) to offer students an overview of the different regulatory fields that form part of the overarching regime of IEL. Thereby, students should be able to conceptualize the broad substantive scope of protection that IEL implements and be familiar with the challenges this raises. The enforcement of these various fields of IEL will also be addressed, with particular attention paid to questions of adjudication and compliance with international environmental protection laws.

5 (JUR), 5 (CECIL, ERASMUS, INTE