2024 Summer School will take place on Tuesdays, June 4th - July 30th. All sessions are held 12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM Eastern Time.
Each summer, ELI convenes a complimentary seminar series that offers an introduction to the legal and policy foundations of environmental protection in the United States.
ELI's Summer School is a series of seminars taught by experts in their fields, introducing the audience to important areas of environmental law, including the Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), climate change law, energy law, and environmental justice. Faculty will also incorporate major regulatory and judicial updates to the laws.
Who will benefit: All are welcome. Students and emerging professionals will have unique opportunities to learn, hear updates, ask questions, and network. The series is intended for:
- undergraduates,
- law students and graduate students, and
- working professionals new to or looking for a refresher course in environmental law (such as interns, summer clerks, and associates, or second-career professionals)
This series is free, but registration for the individual sessions is required. Click on the sessions listed below to register today!
For this year's Summer School Series, four sessions will be hybrid (in person in DC and streamed via Zoom), and the remaining four sessions will be held online via webinar only.
The odd-numbered sessions will be HYBRID (in-person at ELI's offices in Washington, DC, and live streamed via Zoom):
- June 4, Session 1: An Introduction to Careers in Environmental Law and Policy
- June 18, Session 3: Basics of the Clean Air Act
- July 9, Session 5: Basics of Energy Law and the Energy Transition
- July 23, Session 7: Environmental Justice
The even-numbered sessions will be held ONLY via webinar (NO in-person component):
- June 11, Session 2: NEPA, ESA and the Fundamentals of Environmental Law
- June 25, Session 4: Basics of the Clean Water Act
- July 16, Session 6: Climate Change and Environmental Law
- July 30, Session 8: Hazardous Waste and Sites
All events are on Tuesdays, 12-2 p.m. Eastern Time. Summer School sessions are every Tuesday from June 4th to July 30th, with the exception of July 2nd (no session during week of July 4th). All sessions will be recorded and available for viewing (usually within three business days) at the individual event links below.
There is no CLE available for this series.
ELI's Summer School classes do not require an application to attend and are not visa-granting programs.
Questions? Contact events@eli.org
Click the links below to view recordings and panelists' slides from past sessions.