DIRITTO DELL'AMBIENTE

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Enrico LANZA

Expected 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

 SubjectsText References
1The environmental problem from the point of view of criminal law: the object and techniques of protectionRuga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 3-22
2The sources of environmental criminal lawRuga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 23-34
3The so-called consolidated environmental text and the crimes stated in Italian criminal codeRuga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 34-47
4The principles of legality and offensiveness and environmental crimesRuga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 47-66
5The perpetrators of environmental crimesRuga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 67-88
6Environmental pollution and its consequencesRuga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 253-273
7The environmental disasterRuga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 273-284
8The provisions contained in the articles 452-quinquies and 452-quaterdeciesRuga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 284-306
9Unnamed disaster and forest fireRuga Riva, Diritto penale dell'ambiente, IV ed. Giappichelli, Torino, 2021, pp. 307-319
10The criminal protection of animalsRuga 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.