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Aims The programme is ideal for students with non-law degrees who have an interest in gaining a further understanding of environmental law and regulation. Students following this programme will often have experience of working in the environmental field, although this is not a requirement. Programme Description The programme is designed to enable you to specialise in environmental law and to gain a greater understanding of the law and regulation relating to the environment. More specifically it will examine: national, European and international legal regimes and their effectiveness in achieving environmental protection and sustainable development the legal responses to the economic, environmental and social challenges raised by some of the most pressing concerns facing humanity and the relationship between environmental regulation and other areas of law as well as policy, science, justice and trade. You take compulsory modules (140 credits) including a dissertation (60 credits) which will be submitted at the end of the summer semester and optional modules (40 credits). Compulsory modules include: legal research skills and methods foundations of environmental law and policy biodiversity and natural resources law international environmental law European environmental law and dissertation. Optional modules may, subject to availability, include: science, climate change and environmental justice introduction to planning law environmental impact and assessment (EIA): law and practice foundations of public international law World Trade Organisation law. You are assessed by course work essays and written examinations, plus your dissertation. Most modules are taught by means of seminar groups.

An upper-second-class Honours degree, or international equivalent, in law is preferred. We will also consider applicants on an individual basis with lower-second-class Honours degrees on their merit, and those with degrees in other areas and those with reation. MItemalue+oSn++???A????#? ?+???????????????????????????????????+S?++??????,???@#iItem????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????{?????W?????????W???W????{*?W?W???????????
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