LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · UNITED KINGDOM
Key Issues in Transnational Environmental Law
Master's · Taught in en
At a glance
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Master's
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This half-unit course focuses on contemporary environmental law developments that extend beyond national borders, encompassing both European and international legal frameworks. It explores the core values, guiding principles, and strategies that shape environmental policy and decision-making. The course also examines the influence of non-state actors, such as private green certification initiatives, on environmental law. Finally, it addresses pressing global environmental challenges and the role of transnational law in addressing them.
Curriculum
The course is structured into thematic sections covering the foundations, mechanisms, and specific challenges of transnational environmental law.
- Year 1
- Environmental law in context: economic and alternative approaches to sustainable development.LL402E
- Sources and principles of international environmental law.LL402E
- Transnational liability: responding to global catastrophes.LL402E
- The legalisation of corporate sustainability.LL402E
- Mid-point assessment: the contribution of transnational environmental lawLL402E
- Protecting biodiversity: comparing treaty-based and market-based approaches.LL402E
- Protecting biodiversity: the rise of rights of nature.LL402E
- Climate change: international law and policy developments.LL402E
- Climate change litigation.LL402E
- Trade and the environment.LL402E
- Revision.LL402E
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Fees
Tuition (international)Please refer to the Executive LLM programme fees.
Tuition (home)Please refer to the Executive LLM programme fees.
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This course is a half unit and is offered within the Executive LLM programme structure. The Law School may not offer all Executive LLM courses every year.