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
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.
Monday, September 28, 2020
News
LEAP and Thurman Arnold Project to Host Virtual Conference on Big Ag & Antitrust
The Thurman Arnold Project at Yale and the Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School invite paper submissions for the conference “Big Ag & Antitrust: Competition Policy for a Sustainable and Humane Food System.”
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Event
Big Ag & Antitrust: Competition Policy for a Sustainable and Humane Food System
(All day)
Online
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
1:41:49
Thursday, November 19, 2020
In The Press
10 enormously consequential things Biden can do without the Senate
Vox
LEAP Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Lovvorn is quoted in Vox about how the Biden administration can confront factory farming through executive orders and agency actions.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
In The Press
Five actions Biden should take to build a more humane food system — A Commentary by Viveca Morris and Jonathan Lovvorn
The Hill
Viveca Morris is Executive Director of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School. Jonathan Lovvorn is Faculty Co-Director of the Law, Ethics, & Animal Program.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
In The Press
Biden could do a lot to fight factory farming even without Congress
Vox
LEAP’s Jonathan Lovvorn and Viveca Morris are quoted in Vox about what a tough stance on factory farming could look like under the Biden administration.
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
In The Press
UN-linked plan charts US course to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050
The Hill
Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty ’86 is quoted in The Hill about the Zero Carbon Action Plan.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
In The Press
This Supreme Court Was Designed to Kill Climate Policies
The New Republic
Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence Samuel Moyn and Professor of Law Amy Kapczynski ’03 are quoted in the New Republic about the Supreme Court and climate change.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
In The Press
Esty Sees COVID-19 Responses Guiding States On Environmental Crises
Inside EPA
Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Daniel Esty ’86 is quoted in an InsideEPA article about how states’ COVID-19 response is shaping their policies relating to environmental crises.
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.
One of the things that makes this job magic is the students. They’re unbelievably smart, the best lawyers you can imagine. But they care so deeply. And what always amazes me is they’re unfailingly modest about what they do.”
Heather Gerken
Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law