For general information relating to the LLM programme, click here . The need to protect the environment is one of the key issues of our time.
Law plays a vital role in that protection and is becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex.
This course gives the opportunity to study environmental law at an advanced level. In the last decade, increasing public concern about, and interest in, the environment has resulted in the enactment of major legislation such as the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Environment Act 1995. Many of these changes have been forced upon the United Kingdom as a result of membership of the European Union, which now has a clear remit on environmental issues. The result is a growing and complex body of principles and rules, which control activities that can damage the environment. The LLM in Environmental Law is designed to provide the participants with the legal concepts and skills that are special to environmental law, and to enable them to analyse, interpret and apply the laws governing the environment effectively.