ELQ launches online publication on new website.
The first issue of Ecology Law Currents is featured on ELQ’s new website. Currents provides a timely forum for the varying perspectives of law professors, practitioners, policy makers, and students. The new site also makes ELQ’s print journal available online, features the “Boalt Environmental Events Calendar,” and makes donating to ELQ and joining our alumni network much easier.
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Summer Fellowships
Each year ELQ awards fellowships to law students slated to work with a public interest organization or in the public sector for the summer. The fellowships are awarded to second year students, who need not necessarily be a member of ELQ.
Barry S. Sandals Fellowship
Barry S. Sandals was a partner at Morrison & Foerster, and was well known in the Bay Area as one of the nation’s top CERCLA litigators. A fellowship in his name is endowed by a generous gift from his former firm. It provides $5,000 to a second-year law student, selected by vote by the ELQ membership. The recipient must demonstrate an interest in pursuing public interest and/or public sector environmental law employment, and have retained such employment for the summer.
Professor Joseph Sax Fellowship
Professor Joseph Sax retired in 2001 from his position as the James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation, after teaching at Boalt for 15 years. In recognition of Professor Sax’s great accomplishments as an academic, practitioner, mentor, and friend, ELQ dedicated a fellowship in his honor. The fellowship consists of a pool of funds, depending on annual fundraising but is typically in the range of $6-8,000. To be eligible, a student must be in his/her second year and have secured public interest or public sector employment for the summer. An individual recipient is capped at an award of $5,000; each applicant must also submit information about any outside funding he/she has received.
Student Writing Awards
ELQ awards three student writing awards each year. The prizes are intended to incentivize student research and writing, and/or to provide a venue by which to seek publication. Each awards is judged by a separate panel of professors and/or alumni.
Alvin & Sadie Landis Prizes in Water Law & Government Law
The Landis Prizes were established in honor of the original donor's father-in-law, who specialized in the areas of water law and government law. Each year, a prize is given out for the most accomplished student research paper in each area. The competition is open to any currently enrolled student at Boalt Hall, and the winner receives a prize of $500.
Ellis J. Harmon Prize in Environmental Law & Policy
The Harmon Prize is awarded annually to the student who submits the most accomplished student research paper on a topic in environmental law and policy. The competition is open to any currently enrolled student at Boalt Hall, and the winner receives $2,000 and will be recognized at graduation.