Emory’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program is a top-ranked, comprehensive program dedicated to teaching, research, and public service in environmental law and policy.
Educating Students
Emory’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program offers students extensive classroom, experiential, and extracurricular opportunities in environmental law. Building on Emory’s location in the dynamic business, governmental, and civil rights center of Atlanta, the Program boasts more than a dozen course offerings, three full-time faculty members, outstanding adjunct professors from law firms and federal agencies, twenty externships, and the Turner Environmental Law Clinic. We’re honored to be recognized as one of the nation’s strongest environmental programs.
Promoting Creative Problem-Solving and Productive Engagement
Through conferences, workshops, scholarship, and the work of the Turner Environmental Law Clinic, the Program engages law school faculty, staff, and students, and members of our community to address today’s environmental problems and develop effective solutions.
Building a Strong Environmental Bar
The Program’s graduates are now shaping environmental law and policy throughout the country. They are practicing in nonprofit organizations, law firms, corporations, and government agencies – including working as environmental lawyers in law firms across the United States, the City of Atlanta Office of Resiliency, Coca-Cola, Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance, Southern Company, Southern Environmental Law Center, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We’re proud to provide a thorough and first-rate education in environmental law that prepares students for a wide variety of careers.
You must be proud to know that you are educating the next generation of environmental lawyers and leaders who, judging from their questions, already have solid knowledge about America’s public health and environmental challenges.
Environmental Law Initiative: Scholarships and Summer Stipends
The Environmental and Natural Resources Law program is pleased to offer scholarship and stipend opportunities to advance the practice of environmental law. The scholarships and stipends are generously funded by our founding partner Kazmarek Mowrey Cloud Laseter LLP (KMCL).
WHY EMORY
Emory University School of Law is dedicated to educating lawyers who can effectively serve their clients and communities. And, its Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program is one of the best in the country – offering students extensive classroom, skills-training, and extracurricular opportunities in environmental law. Building on Emory’s location in the dynamic business, governmental, and civil rights center of Atlanta, the Program offers unique opportunities to train, encourage, and incentivize students to pursue careers in environmental law.
HOW IT WORKS (THE BIG PICTURE)
The Initiative provides annual scholarships (up to $10,000 per student) and summer stipends (up to $5,000 per student) to Emory Law students who have overcome economic or other hardships and who may uniquely contribute to the advancement of the environmental legal profession. It also provides these students with opportunities to engage with prominent environmental attorneys, community and business leaders, government officials, and scholars through conferences, workshops, or other formal and informal convenings.
SCHOLARSHIP
The Environmental Law Initiative scholarship will provide tuition assistance to rising second- and third-year students who 1) have a sincere interest in and/or demonstrated commitment to the practice of environmental law, and 2) contribute to the advancement of the environmental legal profession. Students will be eligible to receive up to $10,000 per year. The scholarship can only be applied to tuition.
All applicants must submit a statement of interest, a statement of hardship and unique contributions, and a statement of career goals. The statements should describe a student’s interest in environmental law, hardships they have overcome and their unique contributions to the environmental law community, and how receiving this scholarship will help them reach their career goals. Applicants may also submit optional materials to support their applications, including a resume, transcript, statement of environmental courses taken/planning to take, or letter of recommendation.
Final selections will be made in April, and the scholarship will be applied for the next academic year.
Application Deadline: TBD
STIPEND
The Environmental Law Initiative summer stipend will provide financial assistance to rising second- and third-year students who 1) have sincere interest in and/or demonstrated commitment to the practice of environmental law, 2) contribute to the advancement of the environmental legal profession, and 3) have received an offer of qualified public interest or government employment in environmental law. Students will be eligible to receive up to $5,000 per summer.
All applicants must submit a statement of interest, a statement of hardship and unique contributions, a statement of career goals, and a statement of qualifying job. The statements should describe a student’s interest in environmental law, hardships they have overcome and their unique contributions to the environmental law community, how receiving this scholarship will help them reach their career goals, and why the summer internship excites them.
Application Deadline: TBD
QUESTIONS?
Please direct questions to Shree'ca Lott, program coordinator of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program, at shreeca.lott@emory.edu.
