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J.D. ApplicantsColumbia Law School offers a broad range of career services and programs to support students and graduates of the Law School in their career decision-making process. Through the expertise and individual attention of the Career Services Office and the Center for Public Interest Law, Columbia provides unmatched opportunities for students to join in real-world legal efforts, and a comprehensive approach to developing fulfilling careers.
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'The Environmental Law Clinic showed me the broad range of roles that lawyers play. In one case, students litigated a case that went to trial. In another, we researched the law for several community and environmental groups so that we could advise them on the strategies they might use in convincing decision makers to do the right thing...' -- Ben Longstreth '02
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Clinics
Environmental Law Clinic
Students in the Environmental Law Clinic represent local, regional, and national environmental and community organizations working to solve critical environmental challenges facing the metropolitan region.
Articles
Environmental Law at Columbia Law School
Columbia Law School emerged as a leader in the study of environmental law in the 1970's. Today, the School boasts of faculty teaching cutting-edge regulatory approaches to the subject, as well as a new clinic that provides the teaching of lawyering skills in the context of pursuing real cases.
Journals & Publications
Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
The student-edited Columbia Journal of Environmental Law is designed to be a valuable aid to the legal community committed to the preservation and improvement of the environment. The journal is edited by a student board of editors chosen from among the staff at the end of the second year. Students are selected for second-year staff positions on the basis of writing samples.
Faculty
Frank P. Grad
Edward Lloyd
Thomas W. Merrill
Charles F. Sabel
Related Subjects/Faculty
Land Use / Property Law
Richard Briffault
Michael Heller
Administrative Law
Gillian Metzger
Peter Strauss
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