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Environmental degradation and the climate and biodiversity crises are amongst the most important issues of our time. At their heart are questions of intersectionality and justice. This interdisciplinary programme enables law and non-law graduates to develop core knowledge and skills that will be needed to help address these challenges, whose significance will continue growing in the years ahead. If you undertake this Masters degree from UCD Sutherland School of Law you will be obtaining a qualification from one of the Top 100 Law Schools in the World. You will be taught by world-leading academics allowing you to develop strong analytical skills, and to hone your written and spoken critical insights.

This online Masters programme draws on UCD Sutherland School of Law’s established strength in climate and environmental law and policy, while also benefiting from teaching and research expertise from across the university, including from the Schools of Geography, Economics, Biology & Environmental Science, and Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy.

What Will I Learn?

An in-depth knowledge of environmental and climate law is invaluable to anyone with ambitions to build a meaningful career and make a contribution in this area. This online Masters will provide an unrivalled foundation to equip you with the key skills to become an environmental leader, including how to:

Demonstrate a detailed awareness of current controversies in environmental and climate law.
Have the intellectual toolkit required to research and write a major dissertation.
Integrate source material from a variety of disciplinary areas to reach reasoned decisions about the relative status of competing claims to knowledge.
Appreciate the strengths and limitations of key research methodologies.
Unpack complex theoretical arguments to render key disciplinary insights intelligible to a non-specialist audience.
Use knowledge of debates within the discipline and different methodological approaches to interpret empirical research findings and to critique research designs.
Apply your knowledge and understanding of environmental and climate law, and your problem-solving abilities, in diverse legal scenarios.

Career & Graduate Study Opportunities

The aim of this programme is to equip graduates to work in the fields of climate and environmental law/policy, internationally or in Ireland, as a practising lawyer, legal adviser, policy maker, advocate, researcher, consultant or academic.

Career opportunities exist for example in inter-governmental organisations (e.g. United Nations, European Union, Council of Europe), in government departments and agencies, in local government, in international and domestic non-governmental organisations and think tanks, and in leading planning and environmental consultancies and law firms.