Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- Organization
- TTK Centre of Environmental Sciences
- Code
- ktudjoga17gm
- Title
- Applied environmental law
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of the course is to provide an overview of the fundamentals of environmental regulation, including its purpose, underlying philosophy, methods, and main instruments. Furthermore, the course also aims to give students insight into the legal provisions related to some key international, European, and Hungarian environmental regulatory institutions and their practical application. By completing the course, students will be able to understand the main frameworks of current environmental regulation, its mindset, its relationship with other legal fields, as well as how to determine and apply, at a basic level, the legal provisions underlying specific environmental issues.
- Course content
- The general (horizontal) framework of environmental regulation, its basic concepts, principles, methods, and sources of environmental law, as well as several key legal instruments such as the regulation of environmental impact assessment, in international, European Union, and Hungarian contexts. Within the realm of sector‑specific environmental regulation, the provisions related to the protection of climate, air, and water, as well as the requirements for waste management, at the international, EU, and Hungarian levels.
- Assessment method
- The final grade of this course will be based upon an oral presentation and class attendance/participation.
- Bibliography
- Stuart Bell, Donald McGillivray, Ole Pedersen, Emma Lees, and Elen Stokes: Environmental Law (Ninth Edition). Published: 01 June 2017, Oxford University Press, 872 Pages ISBN: 9780198748328; related legislations