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
Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP)
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.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
News
Experts Release Report on Human Migration Due to Climate Change
Immigration and human rights experts from Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University Network for Human Rights have published a report on how climate change will effect the people of Central America.
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
A.J. Hudson ’23 has received a Switzer Environmental Fellowship.
Friday, July 30, 2021
Event
2021 Global Environmental Justice Conference
8:30AM
Kroon Hall - Burke Auditorium (195 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511) Virtual/In-person hybrid
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
1:41:49
Monday, June 7, 2021
In The Press
How Communities Of Color Are Hurt Most By Climate Change
Forbes
Professor of Law Gerald Torres ’77 is quoted on how climate change disproportionally affects people of color.
Friday, May 28, 2021
In The Press
Biden’s Fossil Fuel Moves Clash With Pledges on Climate Change
The New York Times
Professor of Environmental Justice and Professor of Law Gerald Torres ’77 is quoted in a news story about President Joe Biden’s environmental policies.
Thursday, May 20, 2021
In The Press
The Greener Good Series: How Does Business Adapt?
Minnesota Public Radio
Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty ’86 spoke with Minnesota Public Radio about how businesses can adapt to be more environmentally friendly.
Sunday, May 16, 2021
In The Press
Why Meat and Dairy Corporations are the Achilles’ Heel of Biden’s Climate Plan — A Commentary by Viveca Morris
Los Angeles Times
Viveca Morris is an Associate Research Scholar in Law and the Executive Director of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School.
Thursday, April 22, 2021
In The Press
These are the World’s Largest Banks That are Increasing and Decreasing Their Fossil Fuel Financing
CNBC.com
Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law Jonathan Macey ’82 is quoted in a CNBC report on commercial and investment banks and the fossil fuel industry.
Friday, April 16, 2021
In The Press
Yale Creates New Principles for Divestment from Fossil Fuels
Yale Daily News
Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance, and Securities Law Jonathan R. Macey ’82 is quoted in the Yale Daily News about new principles for investment in the fossil fuel industry approved by the Yale Corporation. Professor Macey is chair of the University’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility.
Student Profile Videos
Most people think there is a giant gap between doing academic work and doing real practice work. This law school has relentlessly refused to accept that gap. And you see it every day.”
Heather Gerken
Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law