In the program of Specialization in Environmental Responsibility and Sustainability, there are three differentiating factors that are explained below:

(i) environmental Responsibility from different perspectives and to the right. The program addresses the responsibility from the perspective of private law, especially when it comes to contractual and tort liability. From the perspective of public law, State responsibility for environmental damage; the constitutional perspective, it addresses the responsibility of the State and the individuals in the context of the conservation of the environment and the natural heritage, and from the perspective of environmental law, the responsibility that arises from the violation of environmental regulations with the sanctioning procedure environmental. Likewise, it raises the debate in the colombian legislation of the environmental liability regime, between the objective, the subjective and the dual.

(ii) Discussions of environmental responsibility in interdisciplinary perspective. The assessment of the environmental damage poses an environmental justice analysis-socio-environmental conflicts-of new methods coming from the Sciences and Economic impacts that are of interest to the Legal Science, but included in the Environmental Sciences.

(iii) Sustainability as the axis of the responsibility. The emphasis of environmental responsibility in the horizon of the sustainable development marks a line to distinguish the regimes of responsibility objectives that are not put into consideration the perspective of socio-economic.