Centers & Intellectual Life
The environmental course offerings at ÈâÂþÎÝ Law are complemented by a vibrant intellectual life. Our environmental centers engage with issues through research and discussion, regularly inviting highly regarded speakers to campus to address the community.
The focuses on environmental and energy challenges that range from global climate change to regional energy policy.
The is a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving the quality of government decisionmaking. It produces original scholarly research in the fields of economics, law, and regulatory policy and advocates for reform before courts, legislatures, and executive agencies.
The ("State Impact Center") supports state attorneys general in defending and promoting clean energy, climate and environmental laws and policies.
The is a leading action-research hub that contributes to the global human rights project through scholarship, education, field building, advocacy, and legal practice.
The advances research and debate on housing, neighborhoods, and urban policy.
The Tax Law Center seeks to protect and strengthen the tax system through rigorous, high-impact legal work in the public interest.
The(CLX) is a global collaborative hub for research, advocacy, and strategic litigation on the climate emergency. Working with scholars, activists, and litigants from around the world, CLX initiates and supports efforts that build the speed and scale necessary to spur action on the climate emergency within the limited timeframe left to avoid triggering extreme scenarios of global warming. CLX helps fill gaps in existing practice, connects litigants and experts in different fields (from climate science to strategic communications to ecology to climate economics), and spearheads and supports climate lawsuits and other forms of advocacy.
, a student-run publication, is one of the leading environmental law journals in the nation. It publishes pieces that reveal and analyze the expanding links between environmental and land use policy as well as administrative, corporate, constitutional, criminal, energy, insurance, international, property, tax, and tort law. Annual symposia also address crucial themes for the evolving world, such as renewable energy, the future of the utility industry, and American gas exports.