How We Are Involved
Environmental Law
Outstanding faculty and visiting faculty, new curricular offerings, a strong partnership with Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES), 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. The Center also sponsors an Environmental Law and Policy Lecture Series, which provides a forum for visiting scholars, politicians, and environmental professionals.
Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Environmental Protection Clinic
Joint Degrees
Yale Law School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 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 Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Friday, June 02, 2017
News
Dan Esty on How to Remake Environmental Protection For the 21st Century
Professor Daniel Esty ’86 explains how the White House faces a stark reality when it comes to changing course on climate change and outlines his ideas for creating a regulatory framework that improves environmental outcomes and lowers economic burdens.Friday, June 23, 2017
In The Press
Op-Ed Response: In ‘the Most Important Lawsuit on the Planet,’ Who Exactly Should the Ninth Circuit Rein In?—A Commentary by Douglas A. Kysar
The Recorder
Douglas Kysar is the Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Friday, June 02, 2017
In The Press
Trump’s So-Called Withdrawal from Paris: Far From Over—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh, et al.
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Dena Adler, Joanna Dafoe, Peter Posada, Conor Dwyer Reynolds, and Eugene Rusyn are Yale Law School Class of 2017.
Friday, June 02, 2017
In The Press
After 17 Years, EPA Settles Racial Discrimination Case Against TCEQ
Texas Observer
Visiting Clinical Professor of Law Marianne Engleman Lado is quoted, and the Environmental Justice clinic mentioned in a story about a settlement between the Texas state environmental regulator and the EPA over an Exxon Mobil Corp. refinery.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
News
Katrina Fischer Kuh ’02 to Join Pace University Faculty
Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law announces that Katrina Fischer Kuh '02 will join the Law School’s faculty as the first Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
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Friday, June 23, 2017
In The Press
Op-Ed Response: In ‘the Most Important Lawsuit on the Planet,’ Who Exactly Should the Ninth Circuit Rein In?—A Commentary by Douglas A. Kysar
The Recorder
Douglas Kysar is the Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Friday, June 23, 2017
In The Press
Cheryl Gilmore: The children lead on climate
The Signal (Santa Clarita Valley)
Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law Douglas Kysar is quoted in an article about the lawsuit Juliana v United States.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
In The Press
Trump administration takes a 'drastic' step to stop youth climate lawsuit
Mashable.com
Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law Doug Kysar is quoted in an article about efforts by President Trump to quash a climate change lawsuit brought by 21 young people.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
In The Press
Why the Paris Agreement works—A Commentary by Todd Stern
Brookings
Todd Stern is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.
Friday, June 2, 2017
In The Press
Trump’s So-Called Withdrawal from Paris: Far From Over—A Commentary by Harold Hongju Koh, et al.
Just Security
Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Dena Adler, Joanna Dafoe, Peter Posada, Conor Dwyer Reynolds, and Eugene Rusyn are Yale Law School Class of 2017.
Friday, June 2, 2017
In The Press
After 17 Years, EPA Settles Racial Discrimination Case Against TCEQ
Texas Observer
Visiting Clinical Professor of Law Marianne Engleman Lado is quoted, and the Environmental Justice clinic mentioned in a story about a settlement between the Texas state environmental regulator and the EPA over an Exxon Mobil Corp. refinery.
Student Profile Videos
Lynsey Gaudioso
A student perspective on environmental law, the joint degree program with the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and clinics.
If I had to identify the two things which taken in combination make Yale Law School such a special place, it would have to be the school’s longstanding commitment to intellectualism, and its equally long-lived and deep-seated commitment to public service.”
Anthony Kronman
Class of 1975, Sterling Professor of Law and Former Dean