International Economic and Environmental Law

Economic globalization raises diverse and different challenges for States in the regulation of their international economic relations: the growing integration and interdependence among national and foreign markets, and the definition of a domestic policies where strategies for economic growth and stability are coherent with the pursuit of non-economic collective interests, such as the protection of the environment or the safeguard of economic and social human rights.

Against this background, the course aims at extending the legal competences of students by providing them a proper knowledge of the relevant international law regimes on economic relations and their overlaps or conflicts with other areas of international relations, in particular on the protection of the environment and of human rights. As a result, the course is complementary to other courses of the master programme on economics and political sciences, enabling students also to develop a critical approach in the analysis of international relations.

At the end of the course, students will achieve a deep and extensive knowledge of the main international legal instruments concerning inter-State economic relations and the protection of the environment. Specific attention is given to international agreements concluded on a universal, regional or bilateral basis, in view of attaining the ability to identify and solve potential overlaps and conflicts between international legal rules deriving from different sources.