After successful completion of the course, students are able to name the areas of law relevant for spatial planning and to describe the framework for spatial planning set by these areas of law. They have discussed legal issues from the above-mentioned legal areas that may arise in the course of spatial planning processes. They know the current need for legal policy action in the respective areas and can enter into a corresponding discourse. They possess the appropriate legal tools to be able to correctly locate the legal issues and to be able to discuss them with legal experts.

Besides a repetition of the spatial planning law as such (which is taught in an own course in detail) the following fields of law are discussed: building law, regulatory framework for the installation of plants; environmental impact assessment law; nature protection law; energy law; traffic planning law; regulatory framework for the social infrastructure; public procurement and state aid law. The relevant legislative texts will be outlined and case law of the higher courts will be addressed. The need for action and legal policy discourse in the respective areas are discussedjointly. 

The students are provided with documents (e.g. decisions of higher courts, media articles, legal literature) and questions on the respective units. These arebased on concrete legal cases or publicly discussed legal problems, which have to be prepared in advance. The course material is presented on the basis of these prepared documents and the legal questions and is worked out in joint discourse. In each unit, a group of students has to deal with a concrete legal question in a role play (e.g. plenary discussion and answer questions being asked by other students. 

Participation in the units (30%),, midterm exam (10%) and written exam (40%), panel discussion (20%).

The literature recommendations are provided for the respective units via TUWEL.

The completion of the lecture Basics of Law for Spatial Planning is of adavantage, but not compulsory.