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
Goldman Sonnenfeldt 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.
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
News
LEAP Invites Applications for 2023 Student Grant Program
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School is inviting applications for its grant program, which supports Yale student-led research and creative projects on the urgent threats facing non-human animals.
Friday, March 03, 2023
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Friday, March 3, 2023
John H. Knox, Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law at Wake Forest University, discussed his time as the first U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights at a March 2 Human Rights Workshop.
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Event
Paul Tsai China Center Legal Strategies of Environmental Activism in China
12:10PM
Baker Hall Room 116
Event
Animal Agriculture's Climate Lobbying and Misinformation Strategies with Georgina Gustin
12:15PM
SLB Room 122
Cancelled
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
1:41:49
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
In The Press
New Jersey Latest State to Sue Oil Companies Over Climate Misinformation
The Guardian
Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law Douglas Kysar comments on states suing oil companies over their role in the climate crisis.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
In The Press
How West Virginia v. EPA Changed the Administrative State — A Commentary by E. Donald Elliott ’74
The Spectator
E. Donald Elliott ’74 is Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
Monday, July 25, 2022
In The Press
Why Your House Was So Expensive
The Atlantic
Scholarship by Professor of Law Zachary Liscow ’15 is cited in explaining why home construction and other kinds of construction are so costly in the U.S.
Monday, March 21, 2022
In The Press
Oil Giants Wage ‘Endless’ Disputes Before Climate Case Trials
Bloomberg Law
Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law Douglas Kysar comments on a climate misinformation lawsuit — one of several filed nationally — moving closer to trial in a state court.
Monday, March 7, 2022
In The Press
Beef Lobbyists Celebrate Methane ‘Win’ at COP26
Unearthed
Viveca Morris, Executive Director of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program, is quoted about the overlooked seriousness of methane pollution from animal agriculture.
Saturday, February 12, 2022
In The Press
In Clampdown on U.S. Methane Emissions, Belching Cattle Get a Pass
The Wall Street Journal
Associate Research Scholar in Law and the Executive Director of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program Viveca Morris is quoted about the agriculture industry and the Biden administration’s efforts to curb methane emissions.
Student Profile Videos
Now it is time to pivot and ask, where are your extraordinary gifts needed? How do you make this legal world that you are entering a better world? One where no one is shut out; one where the weak and vulnerable are not exploited; one that produces fair results based on the merits of the issues before it.”
Visiting Lecturer Stephen Bright
2012 Commencement Address