Environmental Law concerns environmental protection and ecologically sustainable development. Global issues include the destruction of ecosystems, decreases in biodiversity and climate change.
We have one of the world’s largest Environmental Law programmes, with a number of courses offered at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. The LLM (Environmental) programme is taught by Auckland Law School academics, along with top scholars from around the world. We offer intensive courses in climate change law, biodiversity law, ocean governance, human rights and the environment, and other areas of environmental law.Auckland Law School is home to the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law (NZCEL), which includes membership from the Auckland Law School and the School of Planning and Architecture, as well as academics from the University of Canterbury and the University of Waikato. A focal-point of research has been the interface between sustainable development and law and governance.
Auckland Law School has for a number of years offered papers at postgraduate level in the areas of planning and environmental law, resource management, mining and energy resources law, and international environmental law.The New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law (NZCEL) coordinates an extensive environmental law postgraduate programme, with a membership of eight environmental law lecturers and two research fellows.Recent courses taught at the NZCEL have included:- Global Environmental Law- Law of the Sea- Climate Change Law- Asian and Pacific Environmental Law- Corporate Environmental Law- Resource Management Law
Graduates may find employment as environmental consultants, legal practitioners, in-house counsel and policy analysts within law firms, environmental and non-government organisations, business and industry, and central and local government.
Complete 120 points for one of the following:
Complete 120 points comprising:
Up to 30 points may be substituted from such other 700 level courses as the Dean of Faculty of Law approves from year to year as relevant for inclusion in this specialisation.