Application Deadline 3rd October 2025
Module 1
This module provides students with a grounding in the background law needed to fully understand the legal landscape in which environmental law operates. This module has been designed to support both those with, and those without, a legal background. The assessments have been designed specifically to enable nonlawyer/legal background students to gain a firm grasp of legal writing, including syllogistic reasoning. Furthermore, this will ensure that lawyers/legal background students entering the course are refreshed in academic rigour, and stretched/challenged, in preparation to work as masters (FHEQ 7) level.
By completing this module, students are expected to
- Examine, in detail, the English legal system
- Critically appraise the legislation and regulatory practices in the environmental field
- Analyse and provide solutions to common problems arising in international environmental law
By completing this module, students are expected to cover the indicative content as follows:
Background law:
- Common law jurisdiction
- Civil law jurisdiction
- The English legal system
- The law of contract and law of tort
- Professional negligence
- The law of property
Environmental Law:
- Sustainability
- Private nuisance
- Public Nuisance
- Statutory Nuisance
- Sources of law
- The nature of EU law
- Scope of EU environmental policy
- Environmental action programmes
- Environmental Information