Allgemeine Informationen
| Veranstaltungsname | Vorlesung: (SBL 1) Fundamentals of Law - Prof. Dr. Nitschmann |
| Untertitel | Module 2 |
| Semester | WS 2025/26 |
| Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden | 59 |
| Fachbereich/Fachrichtung | Umweltwirtschaft / Umweltrecht |
| Veranstaltungstyp | Vorlesung in der Kategorie Lehre |
| Nächster Termin | Donnerstag, 20.11.2025 16:20 - 17:50 |
| Leistungsnachweis |
Portfolio (50%) Term paper or essay (50%) |
| SWS | 4 |
| Kontaktzeit [Stunden] | 60 |
| Selbststudium [Stunden] | 90 |
| Workload [Stunden] | 150 |
| Studieninhalte |
The course serves as a natural starting point for identifying and analysing relevant legal frameworks for sustainable development. It provides an overview of relevant legal fields and basic legal principles and approaches in a global and European context that are relevant for the implementation of the Agenda 2030 and for sustainable business decisions. The course provides content about definitions, levels, sources and areas of law and of institutions. It teaches legal methods and reasoning. Students will be introduced to the interrelationship between international and national sustainability strategies and the law in the fields of ecology, economy and social issues at different levels. The difficulty of translating sustainability as an undefined legal concept into positive law will be discussed. A closer look at selected European and national legal norms and institutions completes the picture. Differences between the relevant fields of law and the meaning of the rule of law and law enforcement will be introduced. Students will gain an understanding of the relevant legal frameworks and decisionmaking in different sustainability-related situations. They apply their knowledge in practice orientated examples and present their results. |
| Qualifikationsziele | Students will understand the legal system as a necessary framework for sustainable business. They will gain knowledge about the relationship between sustainability strategies and the law, and about the analysis of legal textual genres and legal reasoning. They will recognise the difficulties of implementing sustainability in positive law and understand legal systems as part of the necessary framework for implementing sustainable strategies. Students will understand and contextualise relevant legal norms in order to apply and critically discuss them in selected case studies and legal projects. The acquired knowledge and skills will enable students to assess, evaluate and critically discuss sustainable development and sustainable business strategies from a legal perspective. |
| Modulverantwortliche(r) | Prof. Dr. Kathrin Nitschmann |
| ECTS-Punkte | 5 |
