Law - Political Science - Administration, Agriculture - Food

Master's degree in environmental and sustainable development law and management

  • 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.

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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).

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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

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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 credits
    • CM International environmental and sustainable development law

      4 credits
    • TD International environmental and sustainable development law

      2 credits
  • UE Urban planning law

    6 credits
    • TD Town planning law

      2 credits
    • CM Urban planning law

  • UE Language

    • Your choice: 1 of 2

      • Spanish

      • English

  • Natural and technological hazards law (ST)

    4 credits
  • Action pub et gouv (ST)

    3 credits
  • Digital skills - In-depth documentary research

  • Optional

    • Legal clinic (F)

    • Memory (F)

    • Internship (F)

    • Work integration workshops (F): CV/LM

    • Tutored project (F)

    • Apprenticeship (F)

    • Legal watch (F)

  • Rural law (ST)

    3 credits
  • EU Environmental law

    6 credits
    • CM Environmental law

      4 credits
    • TD Environmental law

      2 credits
  • Digital skills - Pix+Droit preparation

  • Public digital law (ST)

  • UE Public contracts law

    6 credits
    • CM Public contracts law

    • TD Public contracts law

      2 credits
  • Public economic law 2 (ST)

  • Food safety law (ST)

  • Local power (ST)

  • UE Professional integration

    • Your choice: 1 of 2

      • Internship

      • Memory

Master 2 Environmental and Sustainable Development Law and Management

  • Public action and the environment

    2 credits
  • Protecting spaces and environments

    4 credits
  • Waste law

    2 credits
  • Litigation practices

    3 credits
  • Introductory seminar

    2 credits
  • Amenities and environment

    6 credits
    • Urban planning and land use

      3 credits
    • Agriculture and the environment

      3 credits
  • Renewable energy law and climate change

    2 credits
  • Water and aquatic environment law

    4 credits
  • Environmental litigation

    2 credits
  • Environmental management

    3 credits
    • Environmental economics

      3 credits
    • Environmental taxation

    • Corporate environmental management

  • Responding to a call for tenders

    4 credits
    • Tutored project

  • Territory diagnosis

    4 credits
    • Tutored project

  • Further study of a foreign language

  • Elective UE

    20 credits
    • Your choice: 1 of 2

      • Internship/apprenticeship contract/professionalization contract

        20 credits
      • Choosing an internship/commitment

        • Student Engagement

        • Internship/Apprenticeship contract/Professionalization contract

          18 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.

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Recommended prerequisites

Foreign languages

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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.

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