Practice of EU Environmental Policymaking

3 ECTS credits
90 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 6016813FNR voor alle studenten in het 2e semester met een gespecialiseerd master niveau.

Semester

2e semester

Inschrijving onder examencontract

Niet mogelijk

Beoordelingsvoet

Beoordeling (0 tot 20)

2e zittijd mogelijk

Neen

Onderwijstaal

Engels

Faculteit

Faculteit Recht en Criminologie

Verantwoordelijke vakgroep

Internationaal en Europees recht

Onderwijsteam

Harri Kalimo (titularis)

Onderdelen en contacturen

7 contacturen Hoorcollege
9 contacturen Werkcolleges, practica en oefeningen
74 contacturen Zelfstudie en externe werkvormen

Inhoud

This course integrates substantive environmental law into international environmental decision-making through a case study of the EU’s ordinary legislative procedure (OLP). The methodology of the course is a role play: each student is given a role in the OLP (Member of the European Parliament; representative of a Member State; official of the European Commission) and will participate in the drafting of a law on the protection of the environment. To ensure topicality, the law is chosen each year from amongst the proposals that are under preparation in the EU’s OLP at that time. The second part proceeds in three steps. First, advanced lectures on the specific environmental issue at stake, the Ordinary Legislative Procedure as well as negotiation skills are provided as preparation. Next, the students are given dedicated roles in the OLP, and they conduct background research on their respective roles, on the one hand, and on the environmental law topic at issue, on the other. The role play itself goes through the main steps of the OLP, where the legislative proposal is drafted, amended and finalised, requiring the students to present their positions on the draft law in writing and orally. By focusing on procedural and institutional law, the course will improve the students’ presentation and negotiation skills in an international context, while it deepens their knowledge in topical issues of environmental law and develops their skills to apply the environmental law knowledge in practice.

Bijkomende info

A detailed course outline of the exercise, the schedule and the mandatory reading material is distributed to the students and posted online (CANVAS). A reader containing a listing of and the electronic copies of the mandatory reading materials is also available at the beginning of the course on CANVAS. Students are expected to have read the required reading before the exercise starts.

The particular case to be explored in the role-play exercise will be prepared in advance by the course tutors. An introductory session explaining the contents and objectives of the course will be held in March/April, and each student will receive a “brief” outlining the issue to be negotiated and their particular role(s) in the exercise. The students will then need to prepare their position paper and negotiating strategy in advance of the role-play exercise, emulating to the extent possible the real-life role that they have been assigned.

Each student will present a position paper to the teacher and/or tutors before the start of the exercise. The students must integrate any feedback into their position and strategy in preparation for the game itself.

Leerresultaten

Algemene competenties

Knowledge: After the course, students have gained

• a thorough knowledge of the core aspects of the specific area of environmental law that is the topic of the course that year
• a through knowledge of the main phases, roles, and points of leverage in the EU’s Ordinary Legislative Process
• familiarity with the econo-political context within which the policy debate is taking place

Skills: On this basis, the students will be able to engage in their roles while

• applying their environmental law knowledge and skills effectively and independently during the different phases of the OLP for the benefit of the position of their role
• leveraging the different phases of the OLP process for the benefit of their environmental law related objectives
• scanning, analysing and evaluating the larger legal, political and economic context (such as the current state and potential pathways of law on a specific issue; the positions of various stakeholders on pertinent legal issues; legal solutions to the challenges that the political process entails)
• analysing and drafting documents independently and as a member of an inter-cultural group; negotiating and defending positions in a larger constellation of interests

Attitudes: During the course, the students gain an attitude of a responsible advocate, a critical participant and an open collaborator in developing the legal frameworks of a sustainable society.

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
HOC Presentatie bepaalt 65% van het eindcijfer

HOC Paper bepaalt 25% van het eindcijfer

Andere bepaalt 10% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie HOC Presentatie dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

• Presentatie met een wegingsfactor 1 en aldus 65% van het totale eindcijfer.
  
  Toelichting: Students are required to participate actively, write an individual memorandum and present their case during an oral hearing. Each student will present and defend his/her case at an oral hearing. Students will be graded by their tutor and professor Kalimo.
  
  The course tests the student’s ability to apply his/her skills in a practical, real-life simulating situation in a coherent and persuasive manner.

Binnen de categorie HOC Paper dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

• Memorandum met een wegingsfactor 1 en aldus 25% van het totale eindcijfer.
  
  Toelichting: Students are required to participate actively, write an individual memorandum and present their case during an oral hearing. Each student will present and defend his/her case at an oral hearing. Students will be graded by their tutor and professor Kalimo.
  
  The course tests the student’s ability to apply his/her skills in a practical, real-life simulating situation in a coherent and persuasive manner.

Binnen de categorie Andere dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

• Participatie HC met een wegingsfactor 1 en aldus 10% van het totale eindcijfer.
  
  Toelichting: Studenten moeten actief deelnemen aan de hoorcolleges

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

Students will be evaluated as follows:

- stakeholder consultation (10%): number and substantive quality of the interventions; the soundness of the draft position and role;

- position paper and oral presentation (25%): quality of legal analysis and reasoning, accuracy of the legal substance, feasibility of the negotiation strategy; and,

- role play (65%): active participation in the role-play and in the drafting of the final agreement, accuracy of legal substance, quality of the legal analysis and reasoning of the substantive positions; implementation of the role and the negotiation strategy.

Toegestane onvoldoende

Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master in International and European Law: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)