Environmental Law Section

It’s been a busy Spring for ELS! On March 24, UCLA Law School hosted our annual Law Student Negotiation Competition. We had 7 schools and 10 teams. First Place was UCLA School of Law, Samantha Yeager & Emmett Barnes; Second Place was Chapman University, Shehzaib Rahim & Paula Dizon. Read more

In this event, we will learn how to engage with Latino stakeholders in discussion with Jose Gonzalez, Founder, Latino Outdoors. Read more

Come to the Environmental Law Climate Change Conference on Friday, April 7, 2023. Read more

Are you interested in working on in-person programs, publications, social media, webinars, legislation, mentorships, sustainability issues, diversity and belonging in our practice area, or recruiting law students to the practice of environmental law?  If you said yes to any of these, then please consider applying to be a member of our section’s Executive Committee for our next term.  Read more

Would you like to get involved with the Environmental Law Section but cannot devote significant time?  Read more

Clifford T. Lee, a highly respected water law attorney and recipient of the 2021 Environmental Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award, died suddenly in late November 2022.  Read more

Happy New Year!  ELS is preparing excellent programs for 2023. Read more

Dear Registrant, We are writing to inform you that National Weather Service has issued a wind and flood advisory for most of Northern California, including Sacramento, Stockton and surrounding counties. For the safety of our attendees, panelists and CLA volunteers and staff, we are cancelling tomorrow’s in-person event. We will be processing refunds over the next 2-3 business days. Additionally, we are discussing what a rescheduled event will look like, so please keep an eye out for more to come.… Read more

Please join CLA ELS and the Sacramento County Bar Association Environmental Law Section as we welcome professor and author Daniel Selmi to discuss his 2022 book Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law. Dawn at Mineral King Valley tells the story behind the landmark case Sierra Club v. Morton (1972) 405 U.S. 727. Read more

The Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite® is nationally recognized as the largest and most prestigious gathering in California of leaders in environmental, land use, and natural resources law. Read more