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.
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
News
CED Clinic Provides Training for Local Refugee Food Entrepreneurs
Yale graduate students and fellows in the Ludwig Center for Community & Economic Development held training sessions for participants in Sanctuary Kitchen’s Kitchen Incubator Program.
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
In The Press
Fossil Fuels on Trial: Where the Major Climate Change Lawsuits Stand Today
Inside Climate News
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in an article about legal challenges facing the fossil fuel industry around climate change.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
In The Press
To Move Paris Accord Forward, Bring Cities and Companies On Board—A Commentary by Daniel C. Esty ’86 and Peter Boyd
Yale Environment 360
Daniel C. Esty ’86 is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy at Yale Law School; Peter Boyd is an executive fellow at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018
In The Press
Fossil Fuels on Trial: Where the Major Climate Change Lawsuits Stand Today
Inside Climate News
Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh is quoted in an article about legal challenges facing the fossil fuel industry around climate change.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
In The Press
How the EPA Abandoned This Polluted Town
Mother Jones
Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law Marianne Engelman Lado and Claudia Wack ’18 of the Environmental Justice Clinic are quoted in an article about the EPA’s dismissal of a complaint by an Alabama community regarding a nearby landfill.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
In The Press
To Move Paris Accord Forward, Bring Cities and Companies On Board—A Commentary by Daniel C. Esty ’86 and Peter Boyd
Yale Environment 360
Daniel C. Esty ’86 is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy at Yale Law School; Peter Boyd is an executive fellow at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
In The Press
Encouraging Technological Innovation in Environmental and Energy Law
Jotwell
An article in the Washington University Law Journal by Associate Professor of Law Zachary Liscow ’15 and Quentin Karpilow ’18 is reviewed.
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
In The Press
Environmental racism case: EPA rejects Alabama town's claim over toxic landfill
The Guardian
Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law Marianne Engelman Lado is quoted in an article about an Alabama civil rights case over a toxic landfill that has been dismissed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Monday, March 5, 2018
In The Press
First Amendment Cannot Shield Exxon from Climate Probe, New York AG Argues
Climate Liability News
Floyd Abrams Clinical Lecturer in Law David Schulz '78 is quoted in a story about efforts by Exxon to use the First Amendment as a shield against fraud probes by New York and Massachusetts.
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 distinguished among American law schools by two things: its small size—that’s a physical fact about the law school—and also the spirit of comradeship and cooperation that exists among all of the members of the community.”
Anthony Kronman
Class of 1975, Sterling Professor of Law and Former Dean