• Mode: research and professional
• Duration (in credits): between 60 and 120
• Qualification awarded: Master's in Environmental Law
• Places available: 20
• Cost per credit
• Admission to doctoral programmes
• Contact

• Participating institutions
• Presentation
• Admission requirements
• Contents
• Modes
• Pre-registration

Participating institutions

Rovira i Virgili University

Compulsory student mobility: no

Presentation

The Official Master’s Degree in Environmental Law aims to provide students with both basic and specific information, with particular attention on the various sectoral branches and supplemented with a variety of non-legal subjects related to technical, geographic, economic and business aspects of the environment.

The programme focuses in particular on the systems of administrative authorization, the evaluation of environmental impact, ecological auditing of companies, ecological labelling systems, administrative and criminal sanctions and civil liability in the area of the environment. The present form of the curriculum gives considerable importance to practical work and has a strong multidisciplinary component.  

Admission requirements

The Master's Degree courses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it).

In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requirements considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may have been addittionally established by each Master.

Contents

Course taught in:  Catalan and Spanish

Students can choose to do one of two different Master’s Degree schedules: professional or research.

The professional profile is designed for environmental management in businesses, the design and management of environmental policies in the framework of the public administration and the professional practice of a lawyer who specialises in environmental cases. The objective of this schedule is to provide students with the legal tools and extra-legal knowledge so that they can manage professional conflicts in several areas.

The research profile of the Master’s Degree aims to prepare future researchers in this scientific tradition. They will be responsible for ensuring that the discipline can respond to new challenges, both from the strictly scientific point of view in the general context of the legal sciences and from the political and social point of view.

The subjects taught are the following: 

First year
Fundamentals of Environmental Public Law
International Environmental Law
Legal System of Regional Development and Planning Law
Administrative Intervention in the Environment
Introduction to the Environment
Community Environmental Law
Comparative Environmental Law
Economics of the Environment
Introduction to Sectoral Environmental Law
Responsibility for Environmental Damage
Introduction to Environmental Sciences
Environmental Legal Clinic

Second year
Management of Environmental Quality and Corporate Responsibility of the Company
Water Law
Pollution Law
Energy Law
Waste Law
Environmental Taxation
Environmental Protection
Análisis and Management of Environmental Conflict
Environmental Criminal Law
Introduction to Environmental Technology

Seminars
Practicals I (professional schedule)
Practicals II (professional schedule)
Report (professional schedule)
Methodology of Legal Research (research schedule)
Research Techniques (research schedule)
Research Assignment (research schedule) 

Modes

- Professional
- Research

Official Master's degrees offer specific Modes which will be effectively initiated -or not- depending on the number of students finally admitted.

Pre-registration

The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.

If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period will be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.

The preregistration must be carried out on the Internet. The online form will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.

For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Masters. For administrative information, contact the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been offered a place in the program on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need.

Pre-registration on-line

Academic contact (coordinator)
Dr. Susana Borràs Pentinat  Department of Public Law (Faculty of Legal Sciences)  977 558 384   susana.borras(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat Web: http://www.fcj.urv.cat/edam/

Administrative contact (secretary)
Secretariat of the Faculty of Legal Sciences  977 558 397. Fax: 977 558 386  pilar.ontoso(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Postgraduate and Doctoral School
Edifici del Rectorat - Escala C, 1st floor - c/ Escorxador, s/n (Tarragona)   Tel: 977 558 478. Fax: 977 558 847   mastersoficials(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat  Office hours  Mornings: Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 to 14.30 Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00  July and August: Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 to 15.00

Further information

• Schedule for procedures involving students
• Admission regulations
• Programme

  - Professional

  - Research

• Educational Guide
• Faculty/school for registration
• Administrative procedure
• Pre-registration on-line
• Documentation required for preregistration 
• Requirements for foreign documents 
• Frequently-asked questions
• Payment of fees from abroad