DIRITTO DELL'AMBIENTE
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Enrico LANZAExpected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to acquire knowledge both on the general part of environmental criminal law and on the special part, paying particular attention to environmental crimes stated in the Italian criminal code.
Course Structure
Frontal lessons.
Required Prerequisites
No pre-requisites are required.
Attendance of Lessons
Optional attendance.
Detailed Course Content
The general part of environmental criminal law: principles, protection objects and techniques. The special part of environmental criminal law: the crimes contained in the Italian criminal code.
Textbook Information
Carlo Ruga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed., Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 1-88 and 253-338.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The environmental problem from the point of view of criminal law: the object and techniques of protection | Ruga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 3-22 |
| 2 | The sources of environmental criminal law | Ruga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 23-34 |
| 3 | The so-called consolidated environmental text and the crimes stated in Italian criminal code | Ruga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 34-47 |
| 4 | The principles of legality and offensiveness and environmental crimes | Ruga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 47-66 |
| 5 | The perpetrators of environmental crimes | Ruga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 67-88 |
| 6 | Environmental pollution and its consequences | Ruga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 253-273 |
| 7 | The environmental disaster | Ruga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 273-284 |
| 8 | The provisions contained in the articles 452-quinquies and 452-quaterdecies | Ruga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 284-306 |
| 9 | Unnamed disaster and forest fire | Ruga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 307-319 |
| 10 | The criminal protection of animals | Ruga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 319-338 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Oral examination.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Protection techniques and the structure of environmental crimes. The principle of offensiveness and environmental crimes. Environmental crimes as crimes of damage or as crimes of danger. Environmental pollution. The environmental disaster. The environmental aggravating circumstance. Active repentance.