Environmental Law and Jurisprudence
Asignatura del Master of Science in Sustainability Management
Description
The course of Environmental Law and Jurisprudence aims to not only present the state- of-the-art of environmental law globally and in the European Union, but also at outlying its historical development and its interrelation with business and its practices. This course thereby explores domestic environmental law through the lens of emerging environmental debates and controversies, presenting international agreements and the need for a certain amount of diplomacy for practicing environmental law. The course provides an overview of significant EU environmental legislation (as collection of laws that governs how humans interact with their environment) on wide range of topics: air quality, water quality, waste management, contaminant clean-up, chemical safety, hunting and fishing and natural resource use in general. It equips the students with the knowledge on searching and understanding different legal and policy instruments as regards environmental preservation at the EU level and the capacity to use the existing and upcoming instruments in the context of creation of corporate strategy.
This subject forms part of the Master of Science in Sustainability Management, Follow the link for further information..
Lela Mélon
Coordinator | Postgraduate Course in Sustainability Transition and Climate Emergency Management | Researcher
PhD in Corporate and Commercial Law (University of Aberdeen)
Lela Mélon is a former Marie Curie Research Fellow with a legal and economics background. She is currently executive director of the Planetary Wellbeing Institutional Framework at UPF and associate professor of Sustainability in Business Law at ESCI-UPF. She specialises in EU law, with a focus on corporate conduct and sustainability, and is currently researching policy coherence for sustainability at EU level, with particular interest in corporate law policies.