Speaker Event: Tuesday, Nov. 28th
Noon-1pm
Warren Hall 2B
Gabe Solmer of San Diego Coastkeeper

Gabe Solmer, USD Law Alum and SD Coastkeeper attorney, will be coming to USD on Tuesday to speak to us about practicing environmental law for an NGO. I hope everyone can attend, and it will be a nice compare and contrast to our last speaker, Cordon Basael, a private environmental attorney for a large firm.

Kevin Grigsby

Environment California:

Below is a website for Environment, California, a statewide non-profit focusing on environmental issues. It has a Sister Organization, the California Public Interest Research Group, which focuses on environmental policy and legal issues. Check out the website as it has articles about California Environmental Initiatives, as well as internship and job postings. This would be a great place for a 1L interested in launching and environmental law/policy career to be a summer intern!

http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/html/newsletters/fall06

Kevin

Hi,

Just wanted to remind everyone that we have a guest speaker coming tomorrow.

Cordon Baesel, a Luce Forward attorney has over 10 years of experience in the Environmental Law area and is a very interesting guy.

Please join us tomorrow, tuesday 9/26 in Warren Hall 3D at 12 noon for a short talk, some Q and A, and pizza.

Internship and study abroad opportunities:

After sorting through the year of mail the club received last year that went unopened, I have the following information avaliable for those interested. Most of this will pertain to 2L's and 3L's since I dont think Im allowed to be giving job and internship information to 1L's yet. Let me know via email or this blog comment what your name is if you want the info, and ill drop it in your mailbox:

1) ACLU Job Opportunities

Information from the ACLU Northern California District about paid summer internships, semester internships, and a two year fellowship for graduates.

2) Study Abroad Opportunities

Information from Southwestern Law School about their environmental law summer abroad program in Vancouver, Canada

3) LLM Information

Information from the University of Oregon School of Law on their environmental law LLM

4) State Bar of California Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite

Held October 19th to 22nd in Yosemite



-Kevin

SCHEDULE UPDATE:

Wednesday, October 4th: 7:00pm (IPJ Theatre)

Lecture: "Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer" by Dr. Helen Caldicott, physician and long time anti nuclear advocate. She will speak on her new book which makes the case that nuclear power is not an alternative source of enegery (aka not clean and green).

This is an exciting environmental event, and will be held at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the West end of campus. I am hoping we can attend as a group, and can meet in front of the main entrance to the law school at 6:30pm. I will reserve a block of tickets for the club, but need an idea of who wishes to attend. Those who would like to attend, please leave a comment to this post indicating so. Hopefully we can get a good group to go.

Kevin

ELS Members...just wanted to let everyone know the username and password on the blog so ya'll can participate and post relevant information:

Username: usdlawels
Password: usdlawels

Heres the type of things I was hoping everyone could post:
News articles about environmental law and environmental issues
Job openings in environmental law
Internships in environmental law
Anything else relevant to environmental law

Hope to see some posts soon!

Kevin

Welcome to the USD Law Environmental Law Society blog. This will contain postings of environmental law jobs avaliable around the country, new articles, and anything else that interests the members.