Environmental Law Foundation Clinic

The ELF/UCL Clinic has been set up allowing the introduction of an environmental legal practice element into the LLB programme and bringing UCL Laws into a national network of ELF clinics located in universities. This provides the opportunity to share expertise and best practice in clinical legal education, as well as identifying patterns of environmental injustice.

The Centre for Law and the Environment at the Faculty of Laws, UCL, has worked with the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) on a number of projects over the years, including co-hosting an Environmental Justice Inquiry in the Somers Town and Euston Area in 2017. ELF is a national charity which secures free help and advice for ordinary people and communities about matters affecting the environment in which they live.

In 2016, UCL Faculty of Laws joined the ELF university network (for details, see here). This offers students at UCL Laws an important opportunity to work on a range of policy and legal issues, coordinated by the Centre for Law and the Environment. To date, we have focussed our research and policy advice efforts on the implementation of the Aarhus Convention 1998, working with legal practitioners and engaging a range of community groups and individuals.  With research help from environmental law students we hope to further contribute to ELF's work giving legal advice and assistance to individuals and communities.

Professor Jane Holder (jane.holder@ucl.ac.uk) is coordinating this area of work. Please get in touch if you are interested in working on research projects as part of the ELF university network.