ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Training structure
Faculty of Law and Political Science
Presentation
- Master's degree in environmental and sustainable development law and management
Teaching manager: Catherine RIBOT
The Master in ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT LAW AND MANAGEMENT has been accredited since 1999-2000 at the University of Montpellier.
This highly attractive degree trains specialized lawyers to implement environmental and sustainable development policies in the public and private sectors.
Training available in initial and continuing education (professionals wishing to retrain, job seekers).
The normative framework of the environmental sector is complex and plentiful today, and public authorities as well as companies are confronted with restrictive regulations to manage their environments, their resources, the risks inherent to their activity, to prevent or repair the damage caused by pollution, or to adopt a territorial strategy of sustainable development, in a context of ecological transition.
In full expansion, this sector has reshaped the job market, generating numerous outlets and new professions in the public and private sectors.
This Master's degree is designed as a global legal training program (M1) but also transversal and multidisciplinary: law - management - political science - economics, taking into account the current needs of the job market.
Objectives
Today, the environment and sustainable development are among the major social demands whose recognition has resulted in an increasingly complex and elaborate institutional and normative framework, both at the international and European levels and at the state level.
In this context, public authorities as well as companies are confronted with a plethora of regulations to manage their environment, their resources, the risks inherent to their activity, prevent and repair pollution or adopt a sustainable development approach.
This Master's degree offers students a professionalized education that combines a theoretical approach with an operational approach, knowledge and know-how.
The objective is to train students over two years in environmental law, to provide knowledge, skills, and also know-how (specific and very wide-ranging interventions by professionals) in a sector that is now extremely promising in terms of job opportunities (public and private sectors).
Know-how and skills
To develop legal expertise, to assist public and private structures on any environmental issue, to carry out a territorial diagnosis, to know how to implement a sustainable public order approach in a public authority, to be able to analyze the energy choices of a company, to know how to carry out a CSR diagnosis in a company, a carbon assessment, or even to use a GIS software for the implementation of a wind farm...
For each major sector of environmental law - biodiversity, water, pollution, nuisances, waste, renewable energies, etc. the courses are systematically associated with presentations by professionals: lawyers (environmental and urban planning litigation) environmental managers of local authorities (Occitanie Region) in charge of legal affairs in public establishments (OFB, ONEMA) directors of design offices, environmental managers of large groups (EDF EN, URBASOLAR, COLAS Midi méditerranée ...) confronting the student with field work, with the resolution of practical cases; business games, territory diagnoses, response to a call for tenders...
Graduates of this Master's degree will therefore be able to develop legal expertise, manage all environmental problems in public or private structures, carry out a territorial diagnosis, implement a sustainable public order approach in a public authority, be able to analyze a company's energy choices, know how to carry out a CSR diagnosis in a company, a carbon footprint, or even use GIS software to set up a wind farm
Organization
Program
Select a program
Master 1 Environmental and Sustainable Development Law and Management
Administrative law for local authorities (ST)
Public economic law (ST)
Environment & Policy (ST)
UE International environmental and sustainable development law
6 creditsUE Urban planning law
6 creditsUE Language
Natural and technological hazards law (ST)
4 creditsAction pub et gouv (ST)
3 creditsDigital skills - In-depth documentary research
Optional
Rural law (ST)
3 creditsEU Environmental law
6 creditsCM Environmental law
4 creditsTD Environmental law
2 credits
Digital skills - Pix+Droit preparation
Public digital law (ST)
UE Public contracts law
6 creditsPublic economic law 2 (ST)
Food safety law (ST)
Local power (ST)
UE Professional integration
Your choice: 1 of 2
Master 2 Environmental and Sustainable Development Law and Management
Public action and the environment
2 creditsProtecting spaces and environments
4 creditsWaste law
2 creditsLitigation practices
3 creditsIntroductory seminar
2 creditsAmenities and environment
6 creditsUrban planning and land use
3 creditsAgriculture and the environment
3 credits
Renewable energy law and climate change
2 creditsWater and aquatic environment law
4 creditsEnvironmental litigation
2 creditsEnvironmental management
3 credits
Responding to a call for tenders
4 creditsTerritory diagnosis
4 creditsFurther study of a foreign language
Elective UE
20 credits
Admission
Conditions of access
The Master's degree is intended for an initial or continuing education public
- Students concerned with environmental issues from public or private law, political science or, more broadly, from any social science course
- Professionals reorienting or improving their skills, employees, job seekers: Accessibility through the Validation of Experience and Professional Experience
Admission requirements:
- Students with a degree in Law or Political Science
- Trainees in continuing education
Application: On file and interview from May.
Recommended prerequisites
Foreign languages
And then
Professional integration
Very good professional integration, linked to the large participation of legal practitioners and professional speakers (70%)
The surveys carried out by the SCUIO-IP highlight the two decisive elements of the good professional integration of the students from this training:
-The long term internship
-The training provided.
Jobs held:
- Public Sector:
-Legal affairs managers in PNF public institutions,
ONEMA, CEL...Managers and persons in charge of environmental missions in local authorities or their groupings, in the services of the Ministries
- Private Sector:
-Environment and sustainable development managers in large groups and companies such as EDF, SNCF, RENAULT, VEOLIA, COLAS
-EDF Energies Nouvelles is pleased to announce the launch of its new...
-Design offices, associations, engineering and consulting firms, specialization of lawyers.