The Treaty on the European Union (TEU) calls on the union to 'help develop international measures to preserve and improve the quality of the environment and the sustainable management of global natural resources, in order to ensure sustainable development'. This course thus presents the legal rules relating to the management of natural resources and the security of energy supply against the backdrop of a high degree of environmental protection from a European perspective. It not only covers various natural resources, such as land, air, water, oil and gas but also explores new policies to exploit alternative or renewable sources of energy.

CILO-1: Students will be able to demonstrate the interplay between different objectives of EU natural resources and energy law. CILO-2: Students will be able to clarify the dynamics of the process towards sustainable management of natural resources in the EU and towards an internal EU energy market. CILO-3: Students will be able to recognize the relevant primary and secondary norms of EU natural resources and EU energy law. CILO-4: Students will be able to get prepared for tasks a lawyer is likely to face in practicing EU natural resources and EU energy law, and to compose a legal paper with legal argumentation on the topics of EU natural resources and EU energy law independently, through a critical assessment of relevant doctrine and jurisprudence.