ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE (LLM)
Master
In London
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Type
Master
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
Our new LLM degree in Environmental Law, Policy and Governance is timely in an era of accelerating environmental crises: climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, conflicts over natural resources as a result of pollution, overconsumption, inequality and poverty, and the impacts of advancing technology. Habitat destruction threatens our species and communities. It also affects public health due to the increased risk of zoonosis transmission, as emphasised by the coronavirus pandemic.
Individuals and societies have increasingly turned to the law for solutions. While legal responses have been innovative and creative, challenges persist in the use of law to respond to complex environmental problems.
Our LLM in Environmental Law, Policy and Governance is an innovative research-led programme that will introduce you to the core themes, principles and theory underpinning environmental law. It has been developed following in-depth research with experts in environmental law, including legal practitioners in private practice, the public sector and NGOs as well as those working in policy. It offers you the theoretical and practical knowledge crucial for a solid understanding of the ways in which policy, the law and governance structures respond to environmental problems.
Together, we engage with contemporary legal policy discussions and evaluate legal, regulatory and policy proposals. We focus on a critical understanding of environmental problems as well as their intersection with other challenges such as racial and economic inequalities.
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About this course
This degree is ideal for both law and non-law graduates, including those already in employment as legal practitioners. It will help establish an advanced understanding of the subject area and aid career progression.
Graduates may use this qualification to help them advance an existing career or develop a new career path, for example in policy development, practice, and analysis, within organisations across public, private and non-governmental sectors, including local and national government bodies, regulators, law enforcement and justice agencies, think-tanks, media outlets and universities.
A second-class honours degree (2:2) or above in law or in any degree programme related to the aims and content of the programme.
Applications are reviewed on their individual merits and your professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be taken into consideration positively. We actively support and encourage applications from mature learners.
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Subjects
- IT Law
- Environmental Law
- Governance
- LLM
- Law
- Public
- Climate
- Technology
Course programme
You take two compulsory modules and then choose four options from a range of specialist option modules, including a research project.
Full-time students take all modules in one year. Part-time students take the compulsory modules plus one option in the first year and three options in the second year.
COMPULSORY MODULES- Environmental Law and Justice
- Environmental Problems and the Law
- Commons, Public Space and the Law
- Geopolitics, Population and Environment
- International Business and the Environment
- Law Masters Research Project
- Natural Resources Law: Critical Perspectives
- Regulating New Technologies and Uncertain Risks
- Regulating Technology
- Tackling Climate Change: Legal Responses
- The World Trade Organization and the Environment
Additional information
Part-time home students: £5790 pa
Full-time home students: £11580 pa
Part-time international students: £8850 pa
Full-time international students: £17700 pa
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE (LLM)