GIU0842 - LA RESPONSABILITÀ DELLE IMPRESE IN CAMPO AMBIENTALE

courses

ID:

GIU0842

Duration (hours):

50

CFU:

Year:

2025

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (26/09/2025 - 14/12/2025)

Course Objectives

The course, open to both Law students and students of other degree courses, aims to provide an overview of corporate responsibilities in the environmental field. First, the course will provide students with an introduction to environmental law in Italy and Europe. Second, the key concepts for understanding corporate responsibilities in the environmental field will be addressed: the different types of liability, the concept of imputation, the causal link. Finally, the course will illustrate the most important sectoral regulations that imply corporate responsibilities.

Teaching Methods

The Course consists of hours of frontal teaching, with possible analysis of practical cases, asking students in advance for the reasoned reading of materials previously indicated by the professors. To achieve the educational objectives indicated above, the importance of attending lessons is particularly emphasized, as essential training moments for learning the correct methodological approach in the study of law. The teaching materials will be indicated in class and uploaded online

Assessment Methods

During the lessons, for the attending students, there will be a constant "verification" of the understanding of the topics covered by the professors, of the level of skill gradually achieved. These elements will be assessed with informal tools such as the request for oral interventions at the beginning of each lesson to summarize the previous lesson, rather than through dialogue and discussions between professor and students on certain topics covered in class, especially those that have greater repercussions on current events. The exam will be oral, consisting of three or four questions. The answers will be assessed taking into account, in addition to the accuracy and quality of the answers, the communication ability, the ability to justify by arguing in a persuasive way the statements and opinions supported, the ability to organize the speech logically and in an orderly manner. Alternatively, students may agree with the professors to carry out a written essay on a particular problem or on a specific case.

1. Environmental protection at European level and in the Italian system 2. Environmental protection instruments: ex ante instruments and ex post instruments 3. The role of corporate liability among environmental policy instruments 4. Directive 2004/34/EC on environmental liability 5. The Environmental Code (Legislative Decree 152/2006) and environmental liability 6. The problem of cleaning up: the cleaning up of polluted areas as corporate liability 7. Directive 2008/99/EC on criminal protection of the environment 8. The new challenges arising from climate change: climate liability 9. The Seveso Directives 10. The REACH Regulation