On
the afternoon of October 16, 2017, the fifty-eighth lecture of Luojia Lecture
Series on Environmental Law held in 325 classroom of the law school.This
lecture has the honor to invite the international well-known economist, Prof. Michael
Faure from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, Rotterdam Erasmus University,
the theme of the lecture is "Economic Analysis in Environmental Law and
Policy". This lecture is chaired by RIEL Prof. Liu Jing, Prof. Alexander Zahar,
Dr. Wu Yu, and other doctoral master students.
Prof.
Faure first explained: what is externality. Prof. Faure noted that market
failure has made externalities an economic problem. We want to internalize this
externality, and its biggest goal is to minimize social costs. So what role
does the law play? Prof. Faure then gave an example of this. At last, Prof. Faure
introduce that to minimize the social costs we often use some mechanism, such
as the responsibility system, command and control, the subsidy system, the
application of environmental taxes and tradable permits, etc. Prof. Faure
emphasized that the empirical analysis method and normative analysis method
should be applied skillfully in any research.
At the end of the lecture, Prof. Liu Jing gave a brief summary of Prof. Machael Faure's lecture, and once again expressed her welcome and thanks to Prof. Faure. The students also actively raise their own questions, and Prof. Faure gives a detailed explanation. The lecture ended smoothly in a warm and relaxed atmosphere.