Post-graduate specialisations on the environment-economy nexus
International and EU environmental law
This course focuses on the evolution of EU and international environmental law with an emphasis on its relationship with the economy. The course will cover e.g. EU climate laws influence on the EU’s industrial and energy sectors, and the Sustainable Products Initiative’s impact on consumers as economic actors. Also the increasingly economic means of governing the environment are studied. The course thus offers insights on the evolution and instruments of “environmental law”.
Practice of EU environmental Policy-making
A course on “Environmental policy-making” will promote learning on how environmental law is influenced by economic values during the process of drafting legislation. By engaging the students in an innovative role play on the EU’s Ordinary Legislative Procedure, with actual Green Deal legislative initiatives as cases, the students obtain a deeper substantive knowledge, procedural expertise and a more political sense of how laws are drafted at the tense environment-economy nexus.
Greening of the European Economy
This course explores the “greening” of key sectors of the economy. This process and its practical presentations in various Green Deal policies is studied with a theoretical, interdisciplinary toolbox that is applied on e.g. the EU’s Bio-economy, the Blue (Marine) economy and Sustainable Trade agendas. The sectors act as case studies, where the different approaches and challenges to the economy-ecology interactions can be learned from and assessed in a comparative fashion.
The EU’s internal market and competition law and policy
The Chair also contains a new, creative take on a sustainable economy from the specific viewpoint of the EU’s “economic heart” and its two chambers, the internal market and competition policies. Developing a novel, theory-based inter-disciplinary understanding on how the EU’s internal market and on competition policies, law and economics and economics integrate the sustainability dimension will include lectures on e.g. the “non-efficiency considerations” (economics) and “justification grounds” (law and policy).
The Law of the Circular Economy (Kiertotalouden oikeus)
This pioneering course in the curriculum of the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) Law School is amongst the very first ones globally to focus on the Circular Economy as an emerging area of law and policy on the environment-economy nexus. The course provides a general understanding of the legal concepts, principles, objectives and instruments of a Circular Economy, framing the discussions against the EU and Finnish legal and policy frameworks on the field. Questions of coherence with other areas of environmental and economic law are highlighted. The course is conducted in collaboration with Drs. Mirella Miettinen, Topi Turunen and Joonas Alaranta of the UEF.
A sustainable internal market
This lecture is a part of the Post-Graduate Certificate of the Brussels School of Government’s Winter and Summer Schools. It offers insights on the rationale behind the EU’s internal market, and how the economic integration logic has spilled over to sustainability policies, up to the point of becoming a central element of the EU’s leading strategy, the European Green Deal.
Virtuosi – a virtual seminar series on “Theories and values in European and international law and politics”
The quality of teaching on the Green Deal is in ECOvalence also developed from a theory-oriented perspective. Targeted at the highest levels of expertise in the scientific communities, a doctoral and post-doctoral seminar on the theories to explain and better reconcile the environment-economy nexus will be provided through innovative virtual means that connect experts in different universities in the EU and beyond. ECOvalence will here update and formalise the Virtuosi series, with close to 40 events and counting! The series was created in prof Kalimo’s Jean Monnet Chair rECOncile in 2016-2019.