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Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage

ДВС.7.05

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2023/2024

3 Semester

3

Learning outcomes include such knowledge, skills and abilities as: - the theory and current legislation in the field of civil liability for nuclear damage, and their application in practical and scientific activities; - the formation of students' ability to apply the legislation that regulates public relations in the field of civil liability for nuclear damage while addressing specific issues in practice.

Distance form

Prerequisites for mastering the discipline: 1) to know the categorical apparatus of environmental and nuclear law, in particular: the subject and method of legal regulation, the Constitution of Ukraine, the main international acts: the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy of 29 July 1960, the Brussels Convention on the Liability of Nuclear Operators of 25 May 1962, the Brussels Supplementary Convention of 31 January 1963, the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage of 25 May 1963, the Brussels Convention relating Civil Liability in the Field of Maritime Carriage of Nuclear Materials of 17 December 1971. 2) to have skills in application of the acquired theoretical knowledge of the legal regulation of relations in the field of civil liability for nuclear damage.

The discipline is aimed at mastering scientific provisions, current international and national legislation in the field of civil liability for nuclear damage. In particular, the discipline "Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage" outlines the international regime of civil liability for nuclear damage; principles of the special regime of civil liability for nuclear damage; the concept and grounds of civil liability for nuclear damage; the legal regulation of the national regime of nuclear damage compensation in Ukraine; the nuclear insurance as a means of financial compensation for nuclear damage.

1. Baliuk G.I. Legal problems of overcoming consequences of the Chornobyl catastrophe: monograph / V.F. Opryshko, О.K. Namiasenko, et al.; V.F. Opryshka (Ch.edit). K.: KNEU, 2017, 540 p. (Chapters 8, 9, 10, Pp. 150-208). 2. Vikhrova I.O. Peculiarities of nuclear school compensation in the field of liquidation of consequences of Chernobyl accidents. Bulletin of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine 2015. № 4 (162). Pp. 72-80. 3. Hrabovych T.A. International responsibility of the state for environmental pollution. Legal Scientific Journal, 2021. № 1. Pp. 316-319. [Electronic resource]. – Access mode: http://www.lsej.org.ua/1_2021/80.pdf 4. Social and environmental risks in Ukraine: the legal aspect: monograph / G.I. Baliuk, Yu.L. Vlasenko, M.I. Inshyn, T.G. Kovalchuk, et al.; ed. board: M.I. Inshyn (head) and Ya.Ya. Melnyk (deputy head). Kyiv: “Lyudmila Publishing House”, 2021. 208 p.

Considering the content of educational material and learning objectives, the following traditional and innovative learning technologies are used in the process of teaching the discipline: - lectures on the legal nature of the legal institute of civil liability for nuclear damage, based on the conceptual foundations of the general theory of law, nuclear law, environmental law, civil law and tort law, using specific historical, logical and other general scientific methods of the social phenomena cognition; - seminars at which a detailed analysis of the concept of civil liability for nuclear damage is carried out: social and economic, political, international, legal preconditions for the formation and development of special systems of liability for nuclear damage; theoretical and legal principles of the special regime of nuclear damage compensation; the role of the IAEA and other international organizations in creating a system of civil liability for nuclear damage.

Assessment methods and criteria are chosen by the teacher who conducts seminars, within the number of points provided by the program of the academic discipline, namely: for the express questioning from 3 to 6 points; a colloquium from 2 to 5 points; reports and / or scientific papers from 5 to 8 points; testing (from the set of statements to choose the right ones) from 6 to 9 points; two modal tests from 4 to 6 points for each (total: from 8 to 12 points). The maximum score that a student can get at the end of the semester is 40 points. The minimum score that a student can get for the appropriate forms of assessment is 24 points. According to the results of the final form of control (a credit) the student can get a maximum of 60 points. The maximum score for this discipline can be 100 points.

Ukranian