The Fall 2022 Santa Clara Center for Global Law and Policy Newsletter is now available online.
The Fall 2022 CGLP Newsletter is now online.
The Environmental Law Section of the California Lawyers Association is hosting a free webinar today (Wednesday, August 3, 2022) on the Colorado River at 12 pm – 1:30 pm. Their past webinars have been excellent, especially for students interested in environmental law, but unfamiliar with the field. (This may be particularly timely for those students who will be taking environmental law this coming academic year.)
It’s part of a series of “Introduction to Environmental Law” webinars hosted by the Section for law students and new lawyers. Here is a link to the Section’s Youtube channel, which has past presentations.
Environmental Law Writing Competitions Offer Opportunities for $$, Showcasing Ideas and Writing to the Bar, and Bragging Rights on your Resume.
Writing competitions can be excellent opportunities for law students to get their (relatively) short course papers recognized publicly . . . usually with a nice prize check to boot! Sometimes, the prize will come with an opportunity to have the paper published. Most importantly, for career development and future job interviews, it comes with a great resume line-item and bragging rights for a paper well done!
Ask your favorite environmental law professor for help. They are always happy to support eager-beaver environmental law students who want to save the world! (At Santa Clara Law, that would be . . . me!)
Here are a few upcoming writing competition deadlines:
Environmental Law Student Writing Competition – sponsored by the California Lawyers Association Environmental Law Section. Submission Deadline: July 31, 2022. “The competition is free and open to all law school students currently enrolled at any law school located within California. Entries may be on any issue of legal and/or policy significance relating to the field of environmental law, and must be 5,000 words or less.” First place prize is $1000 and recognition at the October 2022 Yosemite Environmental Law Conference.
Annual Professor John R. Nolon Student Writing Competition – sponsored by the Pace Environmental Law Review. Submission Deadline: August 15, 2022. (This information came across one of the listservs I am on, and there does not seem to be any specific info posted on the web. So, it may be prudent to check with the Pace Environmental Law Review before submission.) Here’s the info: “Entries are encouraged from any law student from now until the final deadline as August 15, 2022. This year’s topic is Environmental Constitutionalism. Maximum length, 35 double-spaced pages, 12pt times new roman font (including footnotes, which may be single-spaced, 10pt times new roman font). To submit, email pelracq@law.pace.eduwith the subject line reading: PELR 2023 Writing Competition. Prize Awarded: 1st place: $500 and publication in PELR. 2nd and 3rd place – consideration of publication in PELR. Criteria for judging entries will be organization, practicality, originality, quality of research, clarity of style.”
Annual Student Essay Competition – sponsored by the Yale Law Journal. Submission Deadline: Sept. 9, 2022. This year’s competition topic is “Law and the Changing Environment,” designed to capture a broad range of legal topics related to the environment, energy, EJ, indigenous people, animal rights, financial regulations, etc. Eligible students include any JD and LLM students of classes 2018-20225 of any ABA-accredited school. Essays should be 4000-8000 words, including footnotes. Up to three winners will receive a $300 cash prize and published in the Yale Law Journal Forum (the Yale Law Journal’s online web publication).
Apply by July 29, 2022 for registration fee and/or travel grants to attend the 2022 Annual Yosemite Environmental Law Conference (October 13-18, 2022) (in Yosemite National Park, of course!), sponsored by the California Lawyers Association’s Environmental Law Section. For environmental law students, this is a great opportunity to learn about the latest environmental law developments, both national and California, and to network with environmental law practitioners. Don’t miss this great opportunity for free money! It’s better than cash. (Haha – actually just free conference registration or travel cost.)
For additional information and for application link, check the CLA Environmental Law Section webpage.