This Specialisation Diploma begins in May and will be taught online in the afternoons. It is the first university diploma in Europe to incorporate both knowledge of Environmental law and the rights of Nature. The Chair funds one full and one half scholarship.
The Specialisation Diploma in Ecological Law and the Rights of Nature is a postgraduate course, a degree from the Universitat de València, which is carried out in collaboration with the Centro Studi America Latina of the University of Bologna. This course is supported by the Chair for New Green Transition of the Universitat de València and Democracy + Inter-University Research Group on Constituent Power and New Constitutionalism.
Environmental law has been taken up in recent decades by different legal systems as a relevant mechanism in favour of environmental sustainability, the fight against climate change, and the protection of rights. But it is not the same Environmental law that we could talk about four decades ago: it is a law that is gradually being incorporated into the so-called ecocentric turn, and whose main paradigm is the recognition of Nature as a subject of rights.
The recognition of the rights of Nature, already present in several legal systems, has recently become one of the most powerful processes we can count on in the democratic path to emancipation. This is a legal fact that can be observed in a wide range of countries.
This collaboration between the Universitat de València and the University of Bologna, with the cooperation of several European and Latin American universities, is a unique opportunity for specific training in a subject at the forefront of law. It is directed by Dr. Rubén Martínez Dalmau, Universitat de València, and Dr. Silvia Bagni, University of Bologna.
Thirteen lecturers from various European and Latin American universities, as well as Bologna and Valencia, are taking part in the Diploma: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and Federal University of Goiás, in Brazil; the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, in Ecuador; the Higher University of San Andrés, in Bolivia; and the University of Girona. It is the first programme of its kind to be offered in Europe.
This Specialisation Diploma is aimed at professionals with an academic degree in law who are interested in defending ecological law and the rights of nature. Academically qualified professionals practising political science, consultants or advisors, working in decision-making with regard to ecology and the rights of nature. Teaching staff at universities and other study centres involved in the teaching of ecological law and the rights of nature. Students who are less than 10% of credits short of completing their undergraduate degree, conditional on passing it in the same academic year, and who wish to specialise in ecological law and the rights of nature or who are working on ecological law and the rights of nature.
