This course allows students to develop their professional skills while working on matters related to environmental law and policy and heirs' property (a form of joint ownership of land). Each student will work on an environmental matter with an organizational client and a property matter with a family client to seek to preserve ancestral lands. The course provides a combination of intensive training on the
skills needed to work with clients and grappling with environmental law and policy matters with which clients need help. During the course of the semester, a weekly, two-hour class meeting will build upon these skills and include meeting with practitioners from industry, private practice, government, and non-profits. In addition, this weekly meeting will serve as a touch-point for learning and sharing with other students how their representation of clients is progressing, what concerns and issues are arising, and what learnings they are taking away. Students will be expected to put 10-12 hours of effort into the clinic per week in keeping with the 4 credit requirement. They will keep timesheets and a journal of their experience.