LAWS 805 - Environmental Law Clinic

Credits: 6

The Environmental Law Clinic is one of two transactional clinical offerings at the School of Law. Students in this clinic will learn transferable legal skills advising organizational entities on complex environmental and land use matters. Students will interview and counsel their clients, take a leadership role to strategize on addressing client needs, conduct factual investigations and legal research, and draft legal documents. Substantive matters in the past have involved green space, forest, and agricultural conservation, regional water planning, carbon cap-and-trade programs, local government law, and federal environmental law. Matters have also involved contract-drafting, ordinance review, and other forms of legal analysis. Clients are either non-profit organizations or public entities working on environmental matters in the public interest.

Prerequisites: Professional Responsibility or Problems in Professional Responsibility

Note: Recommended Courses: Environmental Law and Administrative Law

Basis of Grade: Student grades will be based upon quality of interactions with and services provided to clients, including communication, interviews, work products, counseling, and other tasks (60%); class participation, including active and prepared contributions to seminar and case rounds and the timely completion of assignments (20%); and professionalism and adherence to clinic procedures/professional practice rules, including the ability to work with teammates and supervisors, as well as responsiveness to feedback (20%).

This course satisfies the experiential course graduation requirement.

Form of Grade: Letter

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