Environmental Law Placement

If you are interested in the Environmental Law Placement, please send a copy of your transcripts along with a written letter confirming your experience and interest to MELP@dal.ca. For more information contact MELP at MELP@dal.ca or the MELP Director, Professor Sara Ross at Sara.ross@dal.ca.

LAWS 2225.03   Environmental Law Placement 
CREDIT HOURS: 3

The Environmental Law Placement provides students with the opportunity to work with environmental law practitioners in Halifax during the winter term. Students will take part in the work of their host organization assisting with research and other tasks as requested, on a specific pre-selected project. Students will be required to spend nine hours a week on placement work. Placement can either be directly with the East Coast Environmental Law Association (ECEL), or, on request, with another suitable host organization, including with government, with non-governmental organizations or with in-house council in the private sector. Students will be evaluated based on performance in the placement including assessment of memoranda written for the placement supervisor as well as the major paper to be written on a related topic. Students will be assigned a project that is suitable as a major paper topic and are encouraged to write a major paper that is closely related to the placement project. While the overall evaluation of the placement will be conducted by the faculty supervisor; the placement supervisor will be consulted with respect to the student's performance in the placement as appropriate. This course fulfils the major paper requirement. Students will be selected by the Director of the Marine & Environmental Law Program (MELP) (in consultation with ECEL when the placement will be carried out with ECEL) based on academic standing, demonstrated interest in the field of environmental law and policy, and supervisor availability. Applicants who have already secured a placement with an external host organization will be required to submit a statement outlining the host’s capacity to supervise the placement (contact MELP for additional information). Only students who have taken Environmental Law I before the start of the placement will be considered. Interested students should apply in writing to the Marine & Environmental Law Program at melp@dal.ca in the academic year prior to the year in which they wish to participate in the placement program. Applications shall consist of a written statement confirming the student's experience and/or interest in environmental law, and a copy of law school grades to date. Enrollment: Limited to 3 students.

CALENDAR NOTES: Faculty Supervisor: MELP Director; Placement supervisor: Executive Director, or supervisor, host organization.
PREREQUISITES: Environmental Law I
ASSESSMENT METHOD: Major Paper 60%; Placement feedback 40%

Environmental Law Placement Host Forms

Host Organizations are required to complete this Environmental Law Placement Host form [275 KB] and return to the MELP office at melp@dal.ca.

To view the Major Paper Guidelines click Appendix A [234 KB]