The Center for Energy and Environmental Law
Growing worldwide demands for energy pose environmental challenges of vital importance, including climate change and the rapid degradation and depletion of the earth’s natural resources. These challenges cannot be resolved unless policy makers commit themselves to finding solutions and are well trained for the task. The Center for Energy and Environmental Law (CEEL) brings together experts from many disciplines to tackle the urgent task of offering and analyzing better ways to meet the world’s energy needs and preparing the leaders of tomorrow for the difficult choices that lie ahead.
CEEL:
- Promotes teaching and learning, and provides public policy analysis in energy and environmental law, including areas such as:
- energy efficiency and demand response
- renewable energy resources and other zero-emission energy solutions such as nuclear energy and carbon sequestration
- energy and carbon markets
- environmental impacts of energy production and use
- green building and land use
- sustainability
- energy and environmental justice
- Sponsors lectures, workshops and conferences which bring practitioners, policy makers, faculty and students to the Law School, allowing for the development and sharing of ideas.
- Ensures that the best work in energy and environmental law receives widespread publication and review.
- Provides our students with the educational opportunities—both in the classroom and through clinics and externships—necessary to develop substantive knowledge in energy and environmental law, as well as to strengthen their analytical, lawyering, legal research, and writing skills.
- Prepares students for careers in energy and environmental law that will leave them ready to serve the state and the nation in jobs that will become increasingly important in the years ahead.
- Provides high quality legal services to selected clinic clients.
