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.
How We Are Involved
Environmental Law
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's degree in environmental management (MEM) at the School of the Environment.
News
Climate on Trial
Yale Law School alumni are fighting in the courts — and nearly every other arena — to hold government officials and private companies accountable for their contributions to climate change.
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LEAP Speaker Series: Lingxi Chenyang ’20
12:10PM - 1:10PM
