ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY LAW AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE. COURSE FORMATION AND CONTENT

The development of scientific ideas about the structure and content of the subject of environmental law, which includes environmental protection relations, ensuring the rational use of natural resources and environmental safety, requires a scientific assessment of the place of environmental safety in the system of environmental law and national security law. This requirement follows from the new nomenclature of scientific specialties, according to which public law regulation of environmental safety is included in scientific specialty 5.1.2. «Public law (state law) sciences». The need to develop ideas about environmental safety law as an academic discipline is also conditioned by the requirements in educational and professional standards that the relevant specialists should have knowledge, skills and professional competences in the field of ensuring environmental safety. Based on the achievements of legal science in the field of legal regulation of environmental safety, the author proposes a system of ideas about the relevant academic discipline. It is grounded on the understanding of environmental safety law as a system of legal norms regulating a homogeneous range of public relations arising in connection with the activities of authorised subjects to ensure the safety of man, society and the state. The academic discipline shall consist of a general and a special part. The general part contains a description of legal norms (institutions) that regulate the majority of specific public relations in the field of environmental safety. The special part includes a system of legal norms (legal institutions) regulating relations on ensuring environmental safety in the process of implementation of certain dangerous (creating threats to environmental safety) types of activities. Such a view of environmental safety law develops the understanding of environmental law, the system and structure of Russian law, and allows solving applied problems about the content of training in the field of environmental safety not only for lawyers, but also for specialists whose activities are associated with the impact on the environment and ensuring national security.