UC Irvine School of Law Receives $2 Million Grant to Start an Environmental Law Clinic

UC Irvine School of Law Receives $2 Million Grant to Start an Environmental
Law Clinic

IRVINE, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of
California, Irvine School of Law has received a $2 million grant to start an
Environmental Law Clinic, the first of several legal clinics envisioned for
the new law school.

An anonymous foundation of global reach has provided $2 million to create an
Environmental Law Clinic to further the public interest in areas of
environmental law, environmental health and environmental sustainability. The
clinic will give students an opportunity to do hands-on, meaningful, real-life
and real-time environmental legal and policy work. Students will work under
the close supervision of trained lawyers and experienced professors. The legal
clinic will be closely associated with the UCI Program in Public Health.

Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean of the law school, said he is "delighted"
that the law school's first clinic will be dedicated to protecting the
environment.

"This environmental law clinic will provide our students with an incomparable,
hands-on experience, allowing them to learn up close what environmental
lawyers do on a day-to-day basis," said Chemerinsky. "It will also provide
students with the opportunity to help protect the natural resources of
Southern California, enhancing the contribution of law in promoting
sustainability on earth."

UCI School of Law is also considering starting legal clinics in other areas,
Chemerinsky said. "The faculty has approved a clinical requirement for
upper-level students as part of the law school's innovative curriculum."

About UCI School of Law:
UCI School of Law seeks to create the ideal law school for the 21st century by
doing the best job in the country of training lawyers for the practice of law
at the highest levels of the profession. Each member of UCI's inaugural class
of 68 students will arrive in August supported by a three-year, full-tuition
scholarship and a nearly 3:1 student to faculty ratio. The 15 members of UCI's
founding faculty are drawn from top schools and have already been ranked in
the top 10 in a recent study. The Law School's innovative curriculum stresses
hands-on, interdisciplinary study and public service. About 70 law firms and
legal employers have already signed on to interview law students on campus.
For more information: www.law.uci.edu.

CONTACT: Rex Bossert, assistant dean for communications, 949-824-3063,
rbossert@law.uci.edu

SOURCE University of California, Irvine School of Law

Rex Bossert, assistant dean for communications of the University of
California, Irvine School of Law, +1-949-824-3063, rbossert@law.uci.edu