LLM in Environmental Law Admission 2021 & Top Colleges

• It is a 2-year post graduate program in law, divided into six semesters. 
• The study of environmental law trains the attorney, patent and another legal professional to protect the environment by applying legal actions. 
• The primary work of environment lawyer is to promote environmental awareness by supporting, arguing, interpreting set by governing bodies, in order to prevent humanity’s adverse effect on climate, land, oceans, nature.
• It provides an advanced understanding of factors that are harming environments such as access use of plastic, storage of garbage, use of natural resources and many other aspects.
• You will also study about topics related to business, trade, water law, indigenous land issues, environmental justice and historic preservation
• It mainly focuses on pollution control and remediation, resource conservation and management, land use and infrastructure, and many other aspects of the environment. 
• It brings a lot of career opportunities in domestic and international courts, corporations and non-government organization as well. 
• On the completion of this course, you can work in government and the private law firm as educators, policymakers, environment and sustainability advocates.

How to get into this course

• To get admission into this course, you must crack an entrance exam of national, state and university level such as CLAT, IPUCET, AILET, PG etc
• After cracking an entrance exam, you will undergo a group discussion followed by personal interview. 
• Some institute also offers direct admission into this course on the basis of your performance in previous year’s examination. 

Career prospects

• After completing this course, you can either pursue higher studies like Ph.D./M.Phil in law or seek employment in government and private law firms. 
• Your specialized areas of employment will be banks, Regulatory Bodies, Business houses, Educational institutes, Newspapers, Legal Department of public and private sector organization etc. 
• You will be hired as Advocate, Law Officer, Law Expert, Public Prosecutor and Magistrate/Judge.