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Law, Environment and Sustainability at University of Essex at Colchester

The international community faces considerable challenges in achieving sustainability relating to all aspects of the environment and development. These goals include the need to achieve social justice and economic resilience, and as such pose complex legal and policy questions.

Law plays an integral role in these processes as its development affects and influences the decision-making of governments and businesses, and impacts directly upon communities and the environments in which they live.

Our LLM Law, Environment and Sustainability course offers the opportunity to study across a wide range of modules in the areas of environmental law, development law, international law, corporate and commercial law, human rights, corporate responsibility, trade and investment law to enable students to become technically capable in these areas and to enhance your analytical, communication and advocacy skills needed to operate effectively within these spheres.

Students will learn about the legal and non-mandatory obligations that relate to different national and international actors, and the tensions that exist within different legal systems and frameworks of law that sometimes represent competing environmental, political, economic, social and developmental priorities.

Throughout the degree students will have the opportunity to study key areas, including but not limited to:

  • International Environmental Law and Sustainability
  • Human Rights, Development and the Environment
  • Trade, Investment, Environment and Human Rights
  • Corporate Responsibility and Business Law
  • International Law of the Sea
  • Business and Human Rights
  • Public International Law

The degree will develop students intellectual and critical faculties, encourage them to think independently and teach them to present rational, coherent, and accurate arguments orally and in writing. It will provide students with an excellent foundation for a wide range of careers.


 

Level Masters
Discipline Law
Duration 12 months
Intakes Oct
Application Fees GBP 0
Tuition Fees GBP 20700
Campus Colchester
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Admission Requirements
Language proficiency (minimum)
IELTS 6.5
TOEFL 88
PTE 60
Duolingo Not Accepted
Exam proficiency (minimum)
SAT Not Required / Waiver
ACT Not Required / Waiver
GRE Not Required / Waiver
GMAT Not Required / Waiver
Requirements

Minimum GPA - 70.0%

Rankings
QS Ranking 472
Times Higher Education 301-350
ARWU 501-600
Webometrics 447
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Shanghai Ranking

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU), Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and updated on an annual basis

Webometrics Ranking

The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. CSIC is among the first basic research organizations in Europe. The CSIC consisted in 2006 of 126 centers and institutes distributed throughout Spain.

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