Environmental Law and Sustainable Development

Overview

This Environmental Law and Sustainable Development programme from SOAS University of London offers a wide range of distinctive modules that combine a focus on core subjects in the field alongside a critical inquiry into the theory and practice of environmental law, particularly as they relate to the global South.

Why study MA in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at SOAS

• we are UK Top 20 and World Top 200 for Law (QS World University Rankings 2021)
• SOAS degree offers a distinct and unique mix of modules that covers the main areas of environmental law in their international and national dimensions, with a focus on the global South.
• SOAS, we understand environmental law as deeply connected with human and social issues. This is why our compulsory introductory course is a course on Law Environment and Social Justice. This also explains why human rights dimensions find repeated place in our courses
• our international environmental law focused courses (International Environmental Law, Climate Change Law and Policy, and Law and Global Commons) will offer you a strong bases in some of the main challenges arising at the international and global level and provide you particular insights in the global South-global North aspects of relevant regimes that are on the whole structured around a North-South dichotomy

Employment 

Students have gone on to take up a variety of exciting opportunities. Some graduates have decided to carry on with further academic studies and have undertaken a PhD in environmental law; some have gone on to practice environmental law in their own countries.

Graduates have worked for environmental consultancies, such as Milieu in Brussels or specific environmental law advisory organisations, such as ClientEarth and Climate Law and Policy; some have gone on to work on environmental issues in international organisations; and others have gone on to work more broadly on sustainable development in international NGOs and inter-governmental organisations.

A postgraduate degree in environmental law and sustainable development opens many doors, reflecting the broad scope of the course and the multiplicity of ways in which it can be applied in the workplace and is an excellent base for further study towards a research degree such as a PhD leading to an academic career.