LLM in Sustainability Law and Natural Resources
Rovaniemi, Finland
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Aug 2024
TUITION FEES
EUR 8,000 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for non-EU/EEA students
Introduction
The LLM in Sustainability Law and Natural Resources (Master of International and Comparative Law) is a specialized, 60 ECTS one-year double law degree program that explores the legal challenges emerging from the sustainable use of natural resources.
The program is jointly organized by the University of Lapland and the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
Thematically, the program includes a broad range of sustainability-related aspects:
- Corporate responsibility
- Human rights and Indigenous rights
- Economic development
- Business law and natural resource
- Environmental law and litigation
- The Arctic
- Cross-cultural negotiation
Experience Lapland
Joining the program allows you to spend your year in not one but two thriving academic communities.
The autumn period (August-November) takes place in the University of Lapland campus, Rovaniemi.
Experience Paris
The spring period (January-May) is situated in Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, located in Versailles, Paris.
Admissions
Curriculum
The vast majority of the study units of the program are tailored solely for the students of the program. The program does not involve mass lectures or exam-only study units unless the student chooses such as their elective study unit. Note: the exact titles and content of the study units may be subject to adjustments before each academic year.
The autumn period at University of Lapland consists of the following studies:
- Corporate responsibility 5 ECTS
- Human rights and Indigenous rights 5 ECTS
- Law and economic development: The challenge of sustainability 5 ECTS
- Legal negotiation skills 5 ECTS
- Elective master-level study unit or internship 5 ECTS
The spring at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines consists of the following studies:
- International human rights and business 5 ECTS
- Business law and natural resources 5 ECTS
- Global Environmental Law and Litigation 5 ECTS
- Arctic Studies 5 ECTS
- Master thesis 15 ECTS
Program Outcome
After completing the program, students will be able to:
- Appraise the overall legal framework of corporate responsibility from public and private governance approaches and its current challenges.
- Analyse the rights of indigenous groups in the context of the sustainable use of natural resources.
- Deploy a critical vocabulary to assess the connection between law, sustainability and economic development in contemporary global policymaking.
- Understand how international human rights apply in a business context, especially when economic activities are related to the use of natural resources.
- Examine the main aspects of international and domestic business law governing the use of natural resources in their interactions with protecting the environment and indigenous peoples’ rights.
- Assess the legal avenues available to prevent, redress and sanction the behaviours of businesses harming the environment at the domestic or global scale.
- Analyse the legal challenges of the sustainable use of natural resources from a distinctively Arctic perspective and its impacts on corporate responsibility and Indigenous rights.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
The program enables legal professionals to develop skills that aid in solving the crucial legal challenges of present and future generations.
For French students, the program is a Master 2 (M2) study program.
Graduates of the program will be desired experts in, for example, the following types of positions:
- Legal counsel, especially of environmental law
- Corporate social responsibility manager or specialist
- Social sustainability manager or specialist
- Legal advisers, officers, and consultants in international and non-governmental organizations
- Transactional lawyer