See a menu of recorded sessions from the 2008 Environmental Law & Policy Annual Review ConferenceHeld April 11, 2008, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., this conference addressed habitat trading, the Montreal and Kyoto Protocols, regulatory peer review, water supplies and nanotechnology. Environmental Law Institute ExternshipA new externship with the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) in ELI’s Washington, D.C., office is available to one Vanderbilt Law student per semester beginning in Spring 2008. This externship affords a remarkable opportunity to work on cutting-edge environmental law issues in Washington with ELI's talented, experienced group of environmental law and policy experts. ELI is an independent, non-partisan, environmental education and policy research center, which has played a pivotal role in shaping the fields of environmental law, policy and management, both domestically and abroad, for the past 30 years. The extern will share time between the Research/Policy and Publications divisions of ELI, and work directly with staff attorneys on projects involving domestic and international environmental and natural resource protection law. The extern will also work on an annual conference convened by Vanderbilt Law School and ELI that will bring together academics, practitioners and policy-makers to explore the best environmental law and policy ideas from the academy and their potential application in the policy arena. In addition, the extern will play an important role in editing and producing annual Environmental Law academic publications and have other opportunities to gain valuable practical experience. |
Environmental Law at VanderbiltThe Law School offers an extensive curriculum and a wide range of extracurricular activities for students with an interest in environmental law. Environmental problems do not respect academic disciplinary boundaries, and Vanderbilt is a leader in developing interdisciplinary approaches to teaching, research and service in the area of environmental protection. Summer FellowshipsVanderbilt Law School’s Environmental Fellowship provides financial support to students who work in the summer for non-profit organizations dedicated to land conservation. Research Assistantships & OpportunitiesOpportunities for students to serve as research assistants are available every year. In recent years, research assistants in environmental law have explored the role of law and social norms in shaping consumer behavior and the effects of legal sanctions on corporate environmental compliance. The Vanderbilt Climate Change Research NetworkThe Climate Change Research Project at Vanderbilt, an initiative supported by Vanderbilt's Regulatory and Environmental Law programs, the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies and the Vanderbilt Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, includes a team of faculty and graduate students who are conducting theoretical and applied research on one of the most important and most widely overlooked sources of greenhouse gases: individual and household behavior. ExternshipsExternships are available to law students who are interested in gaining experience-based instruction in professional skills and values. A variety of organizations provide externship opportunities, including environmental and other non-profit groups. The student Environmental Law Society organizes service projects and sponsors symposia on topics of importance to leaders in law, government, business and the academy. PublicationStudents will take the lead in editing and publishing The Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review, a new joint publication with the Environmental Law Institute debuting in 2008 that will publish scholarly articles presenting the best legal and policy solutions to pressing environmental problems. Working on the review will afford students the opportunity to identify the environmental articles in law journals that present the best policy-relevant ideas and to publish a one-issue student-edited volume each year, as well as to participate in an environmental law symposium in Washington, D.C. Career OpportunitiesVanderbilt Law graduates serve in a wide range of environmental law and policy positions in private law firms, corporations, government agencies, public interest groups and other organizations. The Career Services Office provides special assistance to students interested in government and other public interest careers in environmental law in addition to coordinating on-campus interviews with hundreds of private employers. Vanderbilt also offers a Loan Repayment Assistance Program to provide partial repayment of law school loans to students who work in public interest positions in a wide range of fields, including environmental law. Vanderbilt graduates have received LRAP assistance while working for government agencies, legal aid organizations and other non-profit organizations.
|
