Environmental Law Clinic

As the University launches its new Environmental College, the Law School is seeking to strengthen its environmental law offerings work closely with the College to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration around environmental issues, and include one or more clinical offerings for students.

For the 2010-11 academic year, the law school is pleased to announce the Climate Justice Seminar, an innovative, interdisciplinary, two-quarter opportunity to examine predicted climate futures in locations around the globe where climate change is likely to harm disadvantaged populations, and to understand the limitations and strengths of international and domestic legal and policy systems to alleviate these impacts.” The spring quarter will follow a clinical model of project-based work, where a select group of students and faculty will work directly with communities impacted by the climate crisis to create climate adaptation assessments and apply corresponding legal and policy tools to further climate justice goals.

Environmental Law Clinic in the News

• UW Environmental Law Clinic Wins National Award The University of Washington School of Law's Environmental Law Clinic has won the Clinical Law and Education Association's Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project Award for the Clinic's groundbreaking work relating to on the Exxon Valdez reopener clause, culminating in the Emmy-award winning film, The 3rd Trustee: Native Alaska and the Big Spill.