Environmental Law

The Ideal Setting to Pursue Environmental Law

The urgency of climate change, rising sea levels, and pollution have placed the role of law
and lawyers front and center in the struggle to protect our planet. As an environmental
lawyer, you can work on legislating for environmental protection to representing cases
relating to contaminated spaces and endangered species protection to reconciling the
challenges between land development and water use and conservation.

Miami Law offers an extensive environmental law curriculum, an Environmental Law

Program (https://www.law.miami.edu/academics/programs/environmental-law/index.html), and an Environmental
Law Concentration (https://law.miami.edu/academics/concentrations/environmental-law/index.html) next to the
largest subtropical wetland ecosystem in North America. Our interdisciplinary offerings with
the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and the Leonard and
Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy bridge the gap between science and
the law. Whether your goal is to work in a law firm, as in-house counsel, in a government
setting, or at a non-profit organization, nationally or globally, Miami Law will prepare you to
be a leader in environmental law.

Read news stories about environmental law at Miami Law (https://news.miami.edu/law/environmental-la

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law school specialty programming, some the 3rd largest U.S.
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- the Florida
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Courses*

*Course list is not exhaustive and does not set out a path of study.

■ Administrative Law

■ Admiralty Law

■ Affordable Housing

■ Animal Law

■ Business and Human Rights

■ Business and Human Rights

■ Climate Change

■ Climate Change and Human Rights

■ Climate Change Law and Policy

■ Climate Finance

■ Coastal Law

■ Community Equity Innovation and Resource Lab

■ Companion Animals and the Law

■ Conservation, Tourism, and Development

■ Construction Law

■ Disaster Law

■ Emerging Forms of Philanthropy and the Role of Private Foundations in Effecting

Social Change
■ Energy Law

■ Energy Regulation in an Age of Transition

■ Environmental Appellate Advocacy

■ Environmental Law

■ Environmental Legal Research

■ Environmental Planning and the Environmental Impact Statement

■ Environmental Regulation of Real Property

■ Everglades Law and Policy

■ Evolution of Product Liability

■ Fisheries and Wildlife: Law & Policy

■ Florida Topics in Environmental Law & Policy

■ Florida Tort Law

■ Food, Animals, and Environmental Policy

■ International Climate Negotiations

■ International Environmental Law

■ Large Scale Litigation

■ Law of Green Buildings

■ Law of International Treaties

■ Law of the Sea

■ Law of the Sea

■ Legal Environment of the Cruise Industry

■ Legal Protection of the Ocean and Its Biodiversity

■ Legislation

■ Marine Ecology and the Law

■ Natural Resources

■ Non-Profit Organizations and Social Enterprises

■ Planning and Zoning

■ Pro Bono / Public Interest Law Ethics

■ Protection of Living Marine Resources

■ Public Interest Law Seminar

■ Public Interest Litigation in Private Practice

■ Real Property and Government

■ Regulatory Compliance, Corporate Governance, and Sustainability

■ Researching the Administrative State

■ Rights of Nature

■ Scientific Evidence

■ Social Justice Engagement

■ Social Justice Lawyering

■ Space Law

■ State and Local Government

■ Statistics for Lawyers

■ The Freedom of Information Act

■ Toxic Torts & Toxic Regulation

■ Treaty Interpretation

■ UN Climate Negotiations

■ Urbanization, Capitalism, and Development

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■ Water Resources Policy TOP
■ Wetlands Regulation and Real Property
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Academic Programs and Concentrations

■ Environmental Law Concentration
(https://www.law.miami.edu/academics/concentrations/environmental-law/)
■ Litigation Skills Program
(https://www.law.miami.edu/academics/programs/litigation-skills/index.html)
■ Concentration in Business Compliance and Sustainability
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■ Concentration in Litigation and Dispute Resolution
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Clinics and Practicums

■ Environmental Justice Clinic
(https://law.miami.edu/academics/experiential-learning/clinics/environmental-justice/index.html)
■ Human Rights Clinic
(https://law.miami.edu/academics/experiential-learning/clinics/human-rights/index.html)
■ Affordable Housing Practicum
(https://law.miami.edu/academics/experiential-learning/practicum/index.html)

Joint Degrees
■ J.D./LL.M. - Real Estate and Property Development
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■ J.D. /M.P.S. - Marine Ecosystems and Society
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- with the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and
Earth Science
■ J.D./Ph.D. - Environmental Science and Policy (ECS)
(../../../joint-degrees/jd-mps-environmental-science-and-policy/index.html)
- with the Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy

International Opportunities

■ Conservation, Toursim, and Development Course

(https://law.miami.edu/academics/experiential-learning/international-study-exchange-opportunities/short-term-international-o
pportunities/conservation-tourism-development-course/index.html)
: Chile, Colombia, Panama
■ International Moot Court Program
(https://law.miami.edu/academics/experiential-learning/moot-court/international/index.html)
■ Law Without Walls Program
(https://law.miami.edu/academics/experiential-learning/lwow/index.html)
■ United Nations Climate Change Conferences
(https://law.miami.edu/academics/experiential-learning/international-study-exchange-opportunities/short-term-international-o
pportunities/un-climate-change-negotiations/index.html)
- The Environmental Law Program (ELP) at Miami Law offers students an opportunity
to engage in the annual negotiations for the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC).They attended in Dubai in 2023, Egypt in 2022, and Madrid
in 2019.

Extracurricular Opportunities

Student Organizations Law Journals

■ Charles C. Papy, Jr. Moot Court Board

(https://student.law.miami.edu/student-life/student-organizations/papy-moot-court/index.html)