hey,
i have applied for environmental law in edinburgh, nottingham, kent and newcastle. I have just received an offer from nottingham and dont know what to do. does anybody know which university can be recommended for environmental law???

thanks!

Hi Linahh,

It would be difficult to say something about the quality of the environmental law specialisms of the universities you mention because universities are only assessed and ranked on law as a general subject, But in general (if we take governmental assessments and rankings of various newspapers into account). Nottingham and Edinburgh would be the more reputable ones for their law programme quality (with Kent probably following closely). I think we could safely claim that the law schools of this two unis are within the top 10 in the UK. Nottingham is also well know for its environmental studies; they have an extra centre where they conduct studies exclusively on the environment and how to preserve it.
I would suggest that you narrow your options to this two unis (assuming you get an offer from Edinburgh) and eventually go for the one that has a course/module choice that best suits you.
I don't know from which country you are or whether you are an international student, however, one additional point to consider would also be that Edinburgh is located in Scotland and the kind of English the people speak there is barely understandable once you leave the university campus. In addition, in Scotland they don't have the English law which is internationally most well known and applied but they have a mixture of English and continental/civil law. So maybe that would be also a point to consider depending on your preferences.

Kind regards,
lawstudent2010

I agree with lawstudent2010 that you should look at modules and go with those that seem best suited to your future plans. However, being a foreigner and have done two degrees at Edinburgh I can safely say that the English spoken here isn't any harder to understand than some English accents down south so don't let that put you off. Additionally, for purposes of environmental law at the LLM level, most approaches are from a comparative or international perspective so the jurisdiction that you are in won't matter. The fact that Scotland is a combined civil/common law jurisdiction is only relevant at the undergraduate level. I helped put the reading materials together for one of the Edinburgh LLM environmental law courses and can tell you that you'll get no more Scottish law than you will Russian, Mexican, English or French! That is the unique nature of environmental law.
Best of luck with your decision!