Agreements in Environmental Law

Course: “Law”

Structural unit: Education and Research Law School

Title
Agreements in Environmental Law
Code
ДВС.7.02.
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
7 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes include such knowledge, skills and abilities as: - to know the scientific provisions on the contractual regulation of environmental relations, the genesis of the formation of contractual environmental relations and their classification; - to know the constitutional, international and legal as well as other regulatory principles of concluding, implementing, amending and terminating environmental agreements; - to be able to analyze the specifics of environmental agreements and their correlation with civil law, commercial law, administrative law and other types of contracts; - to be able to make drafts of environmental agreements; - be able to apply the norms of environmental legislation in providing legal support for the conclusion, implementation, amendment and termination of environmental agreements.
Form of study
Distance form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Prerequisites for mastering the discipline are: - the knowledge of the basic provisions of environmental legislation, features of legal regulation of environmental relations and their specifics; - the skills of application of environmental and legal norms and the solution of the legal cases arising in the field of ecological relations; - the knowledge of the basic provisions of civil, commercial, administrative, constitutional law in terms of determining the legal basis of contract law.
Course content
The discipline is aimed at studying: - scientific, theoretical and legislative bases of contractual regulation of environmental legal relations; - the legal classification of contracts in environmental law; - conditions and grounds for the emergence, change and termination, forms, subject-object composition of agreements in environmental law; - organizational and legal guarantees, the system of functional, security and legal support for the proper conclusion and implementation of agreements in environmental law; - features of legal regulation of agreements in the field of the nature management, environmental protection and environmental safety.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Kobetska N.R. Agreements on the use of natural resources in the system of contractual regulation of environmental relations. Journal of Kyiv University of Law. 2015. № 1. pp. 220-255. 2. Kobetska N.R. Permitting and contractual regulation of the use of natural resources in Ukraine: issues of theory and practice. Monograph. Ivano-Frankivsk. 2016. 271 p. 3. Krasnova M.V. Agreements in environmental law of Ukraine: Textbook. K.: Alerta, 2012. 216 p. 4. Moroz G.V. The concession of natural resources: legislative and scientific provisions. Legal scientific electronic journal. 2017. № 6. Pp. 177-179. 5. Miskevych L.R. Lease of land plots of the water fund: civil law aspects: Diss. of Cand. of Leg. Scien. Kyiv., 2021. 199 p. 6. Sokolova A.K. Agreements on the use of natural resources: Dis. Abstr. of Cand. of Leg. Scien. Kh., 1993. 7. Shumylo O. Environmental aspects of production sharing agreements. National law Journal: Theory and Practice. August 2015. Pp. 105-109.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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 aimed at the study of scientifically grounded and systematic material regarding: the concept and types of environmental agreements; legal bases for concluding, implementing, amending, terminating environmental agreements; organizational and legal as well as functional and legal guarantees of the proper implementation of agreements in the field of the nature management, environmental protection and environmental safety; - seminars, which provide a detailed examination of the theoretical provisions of the discipline (by preparing reports and discussions) and practical skills are developed (by solving practical problems (cases), preparing drafts of environmental agreements).
Assessment methods and criteria
Assessment methods and criteria are chosen by the teacher who conducts seminars, within the number of points provided by the program of the discipline, namely: for express questioning – up to 4 points; for a colloquium – up to 4 points; for a report – up to 5 points; for testing – up to 7 points; up to 3 points for solving the case; for the preparation of the draft agreement – up to 5 points; for a modal test – up to 4 points. The maximum number of points that a student can score in total for all forms of the assessment during the semester – 40 points.The final assessment is carried out in the form of a written test. The maximum final score for this discipline can be 100 points.The working off is carried out by the oral examination or by performing another type of the task provided by the teacher.
Language of instruction
Ukranian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Maria Krasnova
Environmental Law Department
Education and Research Law School
Tetiana Shokha
Environmental Law Department
Education and Research Law School