The world is experiencing an unprecedented environmental crisis. New international norms, standards, institutions and practices have been established to address contemporary problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, or transboundary pollution. This LLM examines the ways in which international law governs the relationship between mankind and the natural world, and the ties between environmental regulation and other fields of law, such as trade or human rights law. Youll learn about various transnational legal processes from renewable energy directives, to the control of transboundary movements and disposal of hazardous wastes designed to prevent and respond to environmental challenges.<br>International law is an increasingly important field of study and practice. The regulation of financial markets, environmental protection, the management of migrations, or the prosecution of war criminals are all areas in which international law plays a central role.<br><br>On the LLM in International Law and the Environment, youll improve your understanding and awareness of environmental law, learning how to leverage the law to protect the environment and how organisations can adhere to it.<br><br>Keele School of Law is an internationally recognised centre for cutting-edge, socially relevant legal research, which tackles some of the most pressing challenges facing society today. Key research themes include: Social Justice and Human Rights, International and European Law, Ethics, Health and Social Care, Legal Education, Innovation, and Practice, Gender, Sexuality, and Law.<br><br>The wide range of staff expertise enables us to offer four specialist pathways in: Commerce and Business, the Environment, Human Rights, and Politics. This also considerably broadens the scope for potential interdisciplinary research topics, a fascinating range of dissertation topics chosen by past students covers areas as diverse as the law of the sea to the principles of state extradition.<br><br>You can also choose from a wide range of elective modules offered both within the Law School and other faculties, for example, Keele Business School. To complement your studies, you can study a modern language, including key UN languages such as French, Russian and Spanish.<br><br>Students frequently tell us one of the highlights of the course has been the annual study trip to Geneva to see international law-making, diplomacy, arbitration and humanitarian efforts in action within organisations such as the WTO, UN's European headquarters and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).<br><br>Through regular lecture series, youll also, where possible, have opportunities to hear from experts in the field of international law. Past speakers have included Judge Sir Howard Morrison of the International Criminal Court and Dr Vincent Jol Proulx of the International Court of Justice, who spoke about International Law: Hopes and Fears and Transnational Terrorism and State Accountability, respectively.