Student-Initiated Legal Services Projects (SLPS)
UC Berkeley Law SLPS enable you to develop lawyering and leadership skills while serving the community. Interact with clients and get valuable hands-on experience as early as your first year of law school, while earning pro bono hours and pursuing your passion. Choose from as many as 40 SLPS options, such as: Environmental Conservation Outreach, Clean Energy Leaders In Law, and Animal Law and Advocacy.
The Field Placement Program offers qualified students the opportunity to expand their legal education beyond the bounds of the law school, both domestically and overseas, while earning academic credit. More than 20 environmentally related field placements have been offered locally, nationally, and around the world, at organizations such as the California Energy Commission, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Earthjustice, the Greenlining Institute, and the Sierra Club Environmental Law Program.
Established in 1971, Ecology Law Quarterly is among the oldest and most prestigious journals publishing environmental law scholarship. ELQ provides a forum for preeminent scholarship on groundbreaking environmental law topics, including renewable energy, environmental justice, and international environmental law.
UC Berkeley Law has over 90 student organizations to meet the vast range of our students’ interests and affinities, including many that touch on environmental and energy law, such as the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC Law) and Law Students for Climate Accountability at Berkeley (LS4CA).
Each year, Ecology Law Quarterly awards fellowships to law students slated to work with a public interest organization or in the public sector for the summer. The fellowships are awarded to second year students, who need not necessarily be members of ELQ.