Universidad Europea

Online Master's Degree in Environmental Law

Online Spain

DURATION

11 Months

LANGUAGES

Spanish

PACE

Part time

APPLICATION DEADLINE

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EARLIEST START DATE

27 Oct 2025

TUITION FEES

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STUDY FORMAT

Distance Learning

Key Summary

About: The Online Master's Degree in Environmental Law provides a comprehensive understanding of environmental legislation, policy-making, and the legal frameworks that govern national and international environmental issues. The program is offered entirely online, allowing for flexibility in your studies while maintaining rigorous academic standards.

Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue various career paths, including roles as environmental lawyers, policy analysts, compliance officers, or consultants in both private and public sectors, contributing to sustainability and conservation efforts.

Introduction

Specialize in the legal protection of the environment to be able to propose solutions and legal strategies for all the challenges that nature and biodiversity face.

Our Master in Environmental Law will allow you to specialize in the legislation that regulates and protects the environment, biodiversity and natural resources. Through an innovative approach and content, you will learn to face and solve the current problems that nature faces, such as climate change, deforestation or pollution.

This program is the perfect opportunity to specialize in a booming area of international importance. With the Master in Environmental Law you will learn to design environmental and decontamination projects, propose public policies with which to promote citizen participation in the protection of the environment and detect any environmental crime.

Studying our Online Master in Environmental Law will allow you to specialize in CSR and environmental compliance and you will learn to carry out environmental audits and detect any business activity that, through the misuse of natural resources, puts the environment at risk.

Why study our Master in Environmental Law?

complete training
Train in all areas: biodiversity, renewable energy, recycling, urban planning and climate change.
updated approach
You will study all the environmental challenges: greenwashing, environmental marketing and ecological labeling.
booming industry
You will specialize in a fundamental area. The sector demands more and more expert professionals.
professional skills
You will learn to design legal solutions with which to curb the environmental impact of business activity.

Specialize in the protection of the environment and biodiversity

The study plan of the Master in Environmental Law will allow you to specialize in the soft and hard law of environmental defense and be a versatile and multidisciplinary professional.

Effects of climate change: You will learn what are the possibilities offered by the Law to curb the effects of climate change.
Business environmental impact: You will analyze whether public and private companies comply with environmental legislation or commit environmental crimes.
Environmental Human Rights: You will analyze how climate change is affecting the current configuration of human rights.
Current environmental challenges: You will learn to analyze the effect of planned obsolescence and environmental marketing and greenwashing.

Lead environmental projects and promote environmental awareness, be an agent of change

Our Master in Environmental Law will allow you to be an active part of the change that the environment needs and face the climate issue and environmental problems.

sustainable projects
He leads projects oriented to the conservation of nature and its resources.
environmental policies
Develop public policies with which to promote environmental awareness.
environmental compliance
Ensures public and private regulatory compliance in environmental matters.
environmental CSR
Design environmental corporate social responsibility programs.

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Curriculum

Module 1. National and European Union environmental legal framework (6 ECTS)

Background and history of Environmental Law
Fundamentals of domestic and international environmental law
Constituent elements of environmental defense and determination of sources
Soft and Hard Law of Environmental Defense
General regime of liability for damage to the Environment
Citizen participation and procedural foundations of legal-environmental defense

Module 2. Environmental management systems, ecological labeling and protection of biodiversity (6 ECTS)

Biodiversity
Technical and legal foundations of biology and biotechnology
Environmental Policy and Comprehensive Territory Management
Consumption, deforestation, scarcity, pollution and common risks in maintaining the Environment
Labeling and contractual and extra-contractual liability for impairment of the responsible labeling regime
Legal-procedural aspects of the protection of biodiversity

Module 3. Special legal aspects: renewable energies, water management and waste regulation (6 ECTS)

Technical and legal foundations of Energy, development and the environment
The legal regime of renewable and non-renewable resources. Technology and cleaning
Water quality, pollution and legal protection and defense: Water law
Technical foundations of discharges and waste and the engineering of their treatment
Legal regime for waste and discharges
Legal and technical scope of recycling

Module 4. Regulatory regime for climate change and environmental human rights (6 ECTS)

Environmental human rights
Substantive and procedural criteria for the constitutional protection of the Environment
International climate government
Climate change risk and regulation
Substantive and procedural aspects of the fight against climate change of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
Theory and practice of international litigation in environmental matters

Module 5. Interdisciplinary concepts on environmental sustainability and urban planning (6 ECTS)

Environmental impact assessment systems and remedies
Control instruments
Conservation and sustainable development
Environment and economic system
Subsidies, aid and incentives in environmental matters
Environmental taxation.

Module 6. Inspection and administrative and criminal repression of environmental crimes (6 ECTS)

The precautionary principle in environmental matters
Sanctioning law of the European Union in environmental matters
Comparative sanctioning law in environmental matters
Individual and collective responsibility for damage to the environment
Criminal foundations applied to environmental law
Comparative framework in criminal matters for damages to the Environment

Module 7. Impact assessment, environmental due diligence and planning of environmental projects (6 ECTS)

Deontological and ethical foundations of the legal advisor in environmental matters
CSR in environmental matters
ISO quality, safety and health management systems
ISO Environmental Management Systems
Environmental compliance
Legal approach and execution of decontamination projects

Module 8. Current dilemmas in environmental matters: greenwashing and environmental marketing (6 ECTS)

Greenwashing
Environmental marketing
Planned obsolescence
Consumer defense in environmental matters
Market, competition and Environment: collusion, abuse and concentrations
The legal management of the reputational impact due to damage to the environment

Module 9. Research methodology (6 ECTS)

Methodological component
Organization of sources and databases
Quantitative foundations of legal research
Qualitative research
Research ethical criteria
Structure, writing and impact of environmental research

Module 10. Master's Thesis (6 ECTS)

Completion of an individual master's final project/work in which all the knowledge acquired in the master's degree is integrated and subsequent presentation before an academic tribunal.

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