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Environmental Regulation and Sustainable Development – (LL.M.)
Newcastle University
Newcastle Law School
| Application Deadline: | Applications are considered throughout the year | ||
| Location: | Newcastle Upon Tyne / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Newcastle University
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.
Contents
Compulsory modules:
LAW8553 Biodiversity and natural Resources
LAW8035 Foundations of Environmental Law and Policy
LAW8137 European Environmental Law
LAW8053 International Environmental Law
LAW8089 Legal Research Skills and Methods
LAW8099 Dissertation
Optional modules:
LAW8555 Environmental Impact Assessment: Law and Practice
LAW8147 Introduction to Planning Law and EIA
LAW8138 Science, Climate Change and Environmental Justice
LAW8140 Law of the WTO
LAW8146 Foundations of Public International Law
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Normally an upper-second-class (2.1) Honours degree, or an international equivalent, in law or a wide range of subject areas including: business, finance, politics, environmental science and geography. Applicants whose first language is not English require IELTS 6.5 overall (with at least 6.5 in writing), TOEFL 90 (Internet-based) or 577 (paper-based), or equivalent.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 90 |
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