This course allows you to broaden and deepen your knowledge and understanding of law by specialising in one or more different areas. This specialisation gives you the opportunity to study environmental law in depth, within its policy context, exploring law at national, EU and global levels and comparing legal regimes. The programme equips you with a broad expertise which will benefit you in careers in government departments and agencies, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, private practice, policymaking or in an advisory capacity. The degree also provides an excellent foundation for further research. Students will also achieve PgDip in this course. This programme aims to provide the opportunity to develop (a) expert knowledge and a sophisticated understanding of particular areas of law; (b) advanced research, writing and oral communication skills of general value to postgraduate employment; a sound knowledge and systematic understanding of the institutional structures, key principles of law and policy and influential ideas, theories, assumptions and paradigms of particular areas of law; a degree of specialisation in areas of law and policy chosen from the LLM option streams available and an opportunity for students to engage with academic work at the frontiers of scholarship; a critical awareness of the operation of law and policy, particularly in contexts that are perceived to be controversial or in a state of evolution; the skills to undertake supervised research on an agreed topic in their specialisation and to encourage the production of original, evaluative analysis that meets high standards of scholarship; critical, analytical and problem-solving skills that can be applied to a wide range of contexts; the skills of academic legal research and writing; a sophisticated grounding in research methods.