Duration
1 year
Training structure
Faculty of Law and Political Science
Presentation
This project takes into account developments in environmental law at the international, European, and French levels. It is based on the observation that the proliferation of environmental standards has failed to limit environmental and health damage to humanity. This observation raises the question of the effectiveness of environmental law at various levels. It is therefore essential to measure this effectiveness using legal indicators specific to environmental law. This project will enable legal professionals, researchers, students, and public policy makers to integrate a new dimension into the production of environmental legal standards. Legal indicators represent a cognitive innovation in the development and improvement of environmental law. This diploma is based on a 2021 international collective work entitled "Measuring the Effectiveness of Environmental Law" edited by Professor Michel Prieur, as well as on high-level international work that attracted the interest of UNEP in 2024 at the United Nations Environment Assembly UNEA-6 in Nairobi (Kenya) and also at the meeting of the 5th Montevideo Program for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law in Nairobi (Kenya).
Objectives
- Understanding the challenges of environmental legal indicators,
- Discover examples of the implementation of environmental legal indicators,
- Integrate the methodology for creating environmental legal indicators,
- Developing environmental legal indicators
Know-how and skills
- Methodology for creating indicators
- Expertise in auditing and managing projects related to environmental law
- Expertise in environmental and legal public policy assessment
- Comprehensive control of actors producing environmental standards (international, European, and national)
- Ability to analyze and summarize current and future environmental regulations
Program
- The effectiveness of law, an interdisciplinary approach - 9 a.m.
- Environmental law and effectiveness - 6 hours
- Indicators and environment (scientific, economic, social, European, and French overview) - 9 a.m.
- Indicators for SDGs - 6 hours
- False legal indicators - 6 hours
- Why and The origins of legal indicators for the environment (from Yaoundé to Marseille) - 9 a.m.
- Methodology applicable to quantitative legal indicators (how to construct and how to measure) - 24 hours
- Experiments already carried out (Barcelona Convention, SMDD, SDG 14, Brazil, Portugal, Tunisia, France, forest rights in the Philippines) - 6 p.m.
- Co-constructed case study (French law and international law) - 24 hours
Total: 111 hours