Join us for an event focused on recent and ongoing threats to public lands and how to defend against them, led by the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard University.Â
One third of the United States is publicly owned. This figure includes National Forests and Parks and arid lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. These lands are under multiple threats and so are the lifeways of Native peoples who have lived on these lands for time immemorial. Learn about some of these threats and issues from Harvard Law students working with the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.
The student volunteers will be presenting on a variety of public land law topics, including the proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule, oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and subsistence fishing in Alaska.Â
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All are welcome! Come mingle, have food and drink, and learn about public lands issues!
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7PM: Doors open
7:30 PM: Presentation begins
The Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School offers students the opportunity to practice environmental law through work on a variety of litigation, administrative, legislative, and policy projects. Clinic projects focus on environment, energy, public health, and social justice issues. The Clinic works with scientists, medical professionals, nonprofit and public interest organizations, Native American communities, and government clients on environmental and energy issues at the federal, state, and local level. The work includes writing briefs and comment letters, developing litigation strategies that are pursued in state and federal administrative and judicial forums, commenting on proposed federal and state regulations, proposing legislative and regulatory reforms, providing legal advice to non-profit and government clients, preparing guidance documents and manuals for non-lawyers, drafting model legislation, and preparing policy papers. The Clinic develops novel strategies to address environmental problems; investigates new cases; works with scientific, economic, and policy experts to help them present their views about the impacts of legal reforms; and convenes meetings of policy-makers and regulators. The Clinic also works with groups across the country to help their advocates prepare for oral arguments in federal appellate courts. Some students work off-campus with government agencies and nonprofit organizations, while others work on-campus on projects and case work under the supervision of the Clinic’s faculty and staff.