DESU One Health in European and International Law

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La Faculté de droit et de science politique de l’Université Aix-Marseille ouvre un nouveau DESU relatif à l'approche Une Seule Santé en droit européen et en droit international. Ce diplôme entièrement en anglais, en ligne et asynchrone est conçu pour les étudiants titulaires d’un diplôme équivalent à une licence en droit, en science politique ou autre matière pertinente. Les cours débuteront en janvier 2026. Les candidatures sont ouvertes jusqu’au 7 novembre 2025 dans les conditions décrites ci-dessous. 

 

Pour plus d'informations, contactez Éloïse Gennet : eloise.gennet@univ-amu.fr

 

 

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN -

Join Our LLM Program on One Health

in European and International Law

 

The Faculty of Law and Political Science of Aix-Marseille University is thrilled to announce the launch, in January 2026, of a new LLM program on the One Health approach in European and International Law, at the interface between human health, animal health, and the environment.

 

Why One Health?

 

For millennia, we’ve known that human, animal, and ecosystem health are inextricably linked. Yet the general awareness of this interdependence has faded in favour of siloed approaches to human health, animal health and environment protection. Law is no exception to that. Legal systems are highly fragmented and specialised. Health law, environmental law, animal protection law, human rights law, trade law… all have evolved into separate expertise, logics, and subsidiarity rules across different legal systems, from local to global levels.

 

This fragmentation poses challenges when it comes to effectively addressing global health threats, as demonstrated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which underscored the need for a holistic approach to public health that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. This program gives the legal background and tools to tackle global health challenges with a One Health approach.

 

Program Highlights:

 

  • Degree: Earn a diplôme d'études supérieures universitaires (DESU) or LL.M. degree from Aix-Marseille University, one of Europe’s leading institutions in law and political sciences

  • Language: Exclusively in English

  • Format: Entirely online and asynchronous, allowing you to learn at your own pace

  • Duration: 6 months - starts at the end of January and concludes in July

  • Workload: Approximately 130 hours of online learning, with an additional 60 to 100 hours of individual work dedicated to a research assignment

  • Assessment: Final grade based on continuous assessment, research paper, and oral defense

 

💶 Tuition Fees

 

  • Initial education: €1984 (people who have not yet entered working life, excluding student jobs) 

  • Continuing education: €3369 (people returning to education after entering the workforce or after a break in their studies)

 

🎓 Who Can Apply?

 

  • Anyone who has a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in law, political science, public administration or any other related field

  • Applicants must be able to demonstrate a very good level of English (C1-C2) (certificate, international experience…) 

🕒 How to apply?

 

  • Fill in the form available below and send it with the required documents to bastien.rostan@univ-amu.fr before Friday 7 November, at midnight Central European Time (CET) (UTC+1)

 

 

📚 Curriculum Overview

 

Key skills to be acquired include: 

  • Transversal legal thinking across health, environment, animal welfare, human rights, and trade

  • Comparative analysis of international and European legal systems

  • Legal research and writing skills in English

  • Scientific literacy to understand health-environment interactions.

 

Key academic knowledge to be acquired is divided into four blocks. It includes: 

  1. Introduction to the One Health Approach:

    • Legal, institutional, ethical as well as scientific perspectives on One Health 

  2. Human Health:

    • Basic legal knowledge: introductions to European and international health law

    • Interdisciplinary courses on food security, health systems sustainability, antimicrobial resistance, and emerging infectious diseases

    • Transversal topics in law such as sustainable nutrition, pesticides, food safety, the use biological elements of animal origin for medical purposes, sustainable digital health, the fight against pandemics and antimicrobial resistance

  3. Non-Human Health:

    • Basic legal knowledge: introductions to European and international animal protection and environmental law

    • Interdisciplinary courses on human-wildlife conflicts, climate change, biodiversity, or migration from public health perspective

    • Transversal topics in law such as wildlife trafficking, climate litigation and compliance mechanisms, environmental criminal law, biodiversity, eco-anxiety in climate litigation, health and environment protection in trade law, or human rights and environmental migrations

  4. Research work:

    • Students will select a relevant transversal topic of their choice in law and write a 10-15 pages paper in English (paper submission + oral defense)

 

🧑🏫 Taught by Experts

 

Internationally recognized professors, researchers and practitioners from Aix-Marseille University, but also from other European universities like the University of Glasgow, the University of Brussels (ULB), the University of Lausanne, the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, the University of Nîmes, the University of Lyon 1, and the University of Lyon 3.

 

🤝 Acknowledgment 

 

This work has been supported by the French government under the France 2030 program as part of the Aix-Marseille University - A*MIDEX Excellence Initiative (AMX-22-CPJ-03) and by the ANR (N°ANR-22-CPJ2-0021-01).

 

🔗 Learn more

 

📧 For more information, please contact Éloïse Gennet, Junior Professor Chair in European Health Law: eloise.gennet@univ-amu.fr