Environmental LLM Graduate Fellow

Start Date (flexible) This position runs from July or August 2024 to May 2025. Set weekly hours (17-20) are required throughout the duration of the appointment.

How to apply

• You must complete BOTH Steps 1 and 2

Step 1: Apply for the LLM in Environmental Law: https://law.pace.edu/graduate/how-apply-llm-and-sjd-applicants

Step 2: Submit a cover letter (detailing your interest in this fellowship) and resume or curriculum vitae to: https://careers.pace.edu/postings/21230

• Please make sure to mark 'yes to the question "Are you an active Pace University Student?" even if you have not received your decision yet. Please note: We will not be able to see your application to this position if you mark 'no' to this question.

For more information, visit www.law.pace.edu/environment.

Questions? Email Achinthi Vithanage, Associate Director of Environmental Law Programs at avithanage2@law.pace.edu

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Pace University's Elisabeth Haub School of Law is hiring an Environmental Law Graduate Fellow. The Fellow will work part-time in the Pace Environmental Law Program while working towards an LL.M in Environmental Law.

About the Pace Environmental Law Program

Since 1978, Pace University's Elisabeth Haub School of Law has provided an internationally acclaimed environmental legal education. Our dedicated faculty have been pioneers in developing and implementing environmental law and continue to serve as national and world leaders in the field. Our alumni work in law firms, government agencies, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and law schools and universities across the country and around the world. We offer more than 40 environmental law courses. Our students can research cutting-edge areas of the law through our on-campus Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies, Pace Energy & Climate Center, Land Use Law Center for Sustainable Development, Food Law Initiative, and the Sustainable Business Law Hub. Students can choose from unparalleled prospects to develop their skills internationally and through on-the-job practical externships. We are the only top environmental law program that is about forty minutes away by train from New York City and two hours away by air from Washington, DC, providing students with easy access to outstanding practice opportunities.

For more information, visit law.pace.edu/environment.

Start Date (flexible)

This position runs from July or August 2024 to May 2025. Set weekly hours (17-20) are required throughout the duration of the appointment.

Compensation

• Full-tuition waiver for LLM degree

• Modest stipend

Location

White Plains, NY (Westchester County; 40 minutes north of Grand Central by train)

Pace is committed to achieving completely equal opportunity in all aspects of University life. Applications are encouraged from people of color, individuals of varied sexual and affectional orientations, individuals who are differently-abled, veterans of the armed forces or national service, and anyone whose background and experience will contribute to the diversity of the law school.

Step 1: Apply for the LL.M in Environmental Law:

https://law.pace.edu/graduate/how-apply-llm-and-sjd-applicants

Only admitted students for the LLM in Environmental Law can apply

Responsibilities will be varied and may include:

• assisting with legal research and drafting of the problem and the bench memorandum for the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition
• preparing grant proposals for the Environmental Law Program
• assisting with conferences, events, meetings, and publications
• acting as a liaison to law school student organizations with an environmental focus
• meeting and communicating with prospective students to discuss the Pace Environmental Law Program
• working on new program initiatives as they are developed and implemented
• updating and managing the Pace Environmental Law Alumni database, serving on the Pace Environmental Law Alumni Association (PELAA) Board and working on PELAA projects as needed
• other projects and duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Candidate for the LL.M in Environmental Law degree at Elisabeth Haub School of Law
• strong academic qualifications
• excellent professional and communication skills
• strong writing ability
• excellent organizational and administrative skills
• a demonstrated interest in environmental law (defined broadly)