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What is a Centre of Excellence?

A Centre of Excellence is a facility that provides best practice and knowledge around a particular area. Our Centres of Excellence offer you the opportunity to study your chosen law specialism with dedicated support from our expert lecturers. You’ll benefit from their knowledge and experience in environmental and energy law.

Across our different Centres of Excellence, we work with governing bodies and provide specialist modules and electives that allow you to shape your studies to meet your career needs.

The work of the Centre of Excellence for Energy and Environment provides an in-depth review of the domestic and international legal frameworks that aim to both protect the environment and address the “Energy Trilemma” of Sustainability, Affordability and Security. It also considers policy and regulatory matters relating to environmental protection and the delivery of renewable power generation.

The critical issues that environmental and energy law seek to address have global consequences, so the international nature of 91桃色 Online provides an excellent opportunity for students worldwide to engage in comprehensive discussions about these issues. We also provide a teaching hub for this subject area at our London Moorgate campus.

What is Energy and Environmental Law?

Energy and environmental law considers the implications of climate control, sources of energy, pollution, and corporate social responsibility. It focuses on the legal principles, frameworks, rules and regulations surrounding the number one environmental dilemma: the need for energy to support our societies versus the obligation to attain stable climates and ecological systems.

To address these issues, law and policy should also consider other areas such as climate change, human rights, sustainability, and inter-generational rights. Clients in these areas can range from large corporations to charities, individuals, and government, and students studying our environmental and energy law programmes go into a range of careers. You could become a policy adviser, environmental agency policy maker, sustainability executive, energy transition specialist, corporate strategist and more. You'll be able to work within conservation, NGOs, and industries such as trading and shipping or oil and gas.

The named programmes we offer within environmental and energy law are:

• LLM Environmental Law
• LLM ESG Law and Regulation
• LLM International Energy Law
• LLM Law and Policy for Sustainability

Our Lecturers

Our faculty members are recognised experts in the field, conducting cutting-edge research and engaging with industry leaders to shape the direction of policy and law.

Mothiur Rahman – Lecturer & Solicitor

Mothiur Rahman converted to law after studying English for his undergraduate degree, completing his training contract with a top 20 City law firm (CMS Cameron McKenna) and then moving to BDB Pitmans LLP in 2005 to become Senior Associate in its Governance and Infrastructure department. He was co-convenor of the Water Working Party for UKELA (United Kingdom Environmental Law Association). Through attending a “Wild Law” conference hosted by UKELA, Mothiur began to champion initiatives for eco-centric legal frameworks, including being a founding member of the Community Chartering Network which supported Scottish communities through a major planning inquiry on what would have been the UK’s first commercial facilities for the extraction of unconventional gas (helping lead the way to what became an effective ban on fracking in Scotland).

After completing a Masters in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College in 2016, he founded his own legal practice, New Economy Law, a legal innovation practice advising and supporting community groups in the emerging field of community rights and legal advocacy to support their campaigns for more ownership over issues impacting their local environment (including the widely publicised successful community campaigning for “wild camping” rights over Dartmoor following a Court of Appeal judgment). Mothiur continues this practice on a part-time basis.

Mothiur’s specialism is in environmental and public law related matters, with a focus on public authorities and the marine environment and conducting academic research to help develop the concept and domain for an “inter-tidal commons” including seeking to revive a common law doctrine called the Public Trust Doctrine. He has acted as legal consultant on a recent case taken forward by the Good Law Project which included the Public Trust Doctrine as one of its grounds. This case sought to prevent the excessive dumping of raw sewage by water companies into rivers and coastal waters and included the Public Trust Doctrine as one of its grounds which Mothiur was brought on board to help advise on.

Master鈥檚 in Law Advisory Board

The Academic Master’s in Law Advisory Board is comprised from members selected for the excellence in their sectors and their commitment to future generations of lawyers. This board provides a productive link between students, educators and industry practitioners.

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