Global Environmental Law and Governance

Understanding the development and functioning of environmental law across different levels of environmental governance is an important issue of our time. this requires moving beyond the traditional approach to teaching international, regional, eu and national environmental law in isolation from one other. there's also a growing need to understand the relevance for environmental governance of the legal practices of indigenous peoples and local communities, business entities, local administrations, and transnational environmental practitioners.

ELP programs are offered by universities or pathway institutions to assist students in achieving the language proficiency required for academic studies. You can get admitted to your course with a lower language requirement if you do an ELP program.

The llm global environmental law & governance is one of two programmes in the uk to offer a guaranteed internship to a selected number of its students with the international institute for environment and development (iied). iied is a leading international ngo with offices in edinburgh working in a diverse range of areas of global environmental law and governance, including climate change and investment and natural resources amongst others. students on the llm may also have the opportunity to engage with projects carried out by the strathclyde centre for environmental law and governance, such as the climate change litigation initiative (c2li), where they'll work as research assistants. in the past llm students have also collaborated closely with staff affiliated with the llm on individual projects and consultancies with international organisations, leading ngos and national governments.

Work while you study

You can also work on a UK student visa, from 10 to 20 hours per week during the academic year, 40 hours per week or full-time during vacations.

Partnerships

Most universities in Scotland have partnerships with different companies and organisations to ensure their students get enough professional training as students. In addition to increasing their students' chances to get hired by one of the universities. University of Strathclyde has partnerships with the following companies: