How We Are Involved
Environmental Law
Outstanding faculty and visiting faculty, new curricular offerings, a strong partnership with Yale’s School of the Environment, and an active environmental law clinic are just some of the elements of Yale Law School’s expanded program in environmental law and policy.
Centers & Programs
The Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy draws upon resources throughout the University to introduce students to environmental law challenges. The Center runs the Environmental Protection Clinic, where law students address environmental law problems. More recently, Yale Law School also launched the Law, Ethics & Animals Program, which is dedicated to impactful learning and scholarship about the deep legal, scientific and moral questions that humanity’s treatment of animals raises.
Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Environmental Protection Clinic
Joint Degrees
Yale Law School and the Yale School of the Environment offer students the opportunity to jointly pursue a JD at Yale Law School and a master degree in environmental management (MEM) at the School of the Environment.
Thursday, July 23, 2020
News
Q & A: Lindsay Stern Ph.D. ’23 on Bonobo Language and Her New Cover Story in Smithsonian
A Q&A with LEAP student fellow Lindsay Stern and her work, including her recent cover story for Smithsonian magazine.
Thursday, June 04, 2020
In The Press
Don’t Thank the Virus for Saving the Climate Yet — A Commentary by Daniel C. Esty ’86
The New York Times
Daniel C. Esty ’86 is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy.
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Event
The Deregulation of the American Food System: How it Happened and a Way Forward
12:15PM
Online
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
1:41:49
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
In The Press
Esty Sees COVID-19 Responses Guiding States On Environmental Crises
Inside EPA
Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty ’86 is quoted in an InsideEPA article about how states’ COVID-19 response is shaping their policies relating to environmental crises.
Monday, June 22, 2020
In The Press
Animal Rights Law: For or Against
Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law
The Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law interviews LEAP Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Lovvorn.
Thursday, June 4, 2020
In The Press
Don’t Thank the Virus for Saving the Climate Yet — A Commentary by Daniel C. Esty ’86
The New York Times
Daniel C. Esty ’86 is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
In The Press
COVID-19 lessons for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day — A Commentary by Daniel C. Esty ’86
The Hill
Daniel C. Esty is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy.
Saturday, April 18, 2020
In The Press
The KPFA Evening News
KPFA
Viveca Morris, Executive Director of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School, was interviewed about how animal agriculture contributes to the emergence of zoonotic diseases.
Thursday, April 16, 2020
In The Press
Reopening the Country With Cooperative Federalism — A Commentary by Donald Elliott ’74
The American Spectator
E. Donald Elliott ’74 is a Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Student Profile Videos
Yale Law School graduates are leaders in all walks of life, in the private as well as the public sector. Indeed, many work in both sectors over the course of their careers.”
Roberta Romano ’80
Sterling Professor of Law and Director of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law