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. 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 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.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
News
Students Tackle Industrial Agriculture Exploitation in New CAFE Law & Policy Lab
This Spring, the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale launched the inaugural Climate, Animal, Food and Environment (CAFE) Law and Policy Lab to provide hands-on training to students on building durable interventions in policy, legislation and litigation.
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.
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.
Sunday, April 05, 2020
In The Press
Sonia Shah on how animal microbes become human pandemics
When We Talk About Animals Podcast
Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law Jennifer Skene ’14 and Viveca Morris, Executive Director, Law, Ethics & Animals Program, interviewed journalist Sonia Shah about how animal microbes become human pandemics.
Monday, June 8, 2020
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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.
Sunday, April 5, 2020
In The Press
Sonia Shah on how animal microbes become human pandemics
When We Talk About Animals Podcast
Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law Jennifer Skene ’14 and Viveca Morris, Executive Director, Law, Ethics & Animals Program, interviewed journalist Sonia Shah about how animal microbes become human pandemics.
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.
Yale Law School is about as perfect as a true and serious interdisciplinary hub for the law-related social sciences and humanities as one could possibly imagine.”
Professor Taisu Zhang
Class of 2008