Courses & Student Opportunities

Courses in the Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program (ENRLP) are designed for students planning to practice environmental law and for those interested in addressing public policy issues. The courses examine issues of broad relevance to public law, including the administrative process, statutory interpretation, alternative approaches to regulating economic activities, multi-party negotiation, and legal ethics. We encourage students from related disciplines to enroll.

Students may also take advantage of several exciting joint degree graduate programs, publish cutting edge legal scholarship in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, experience hands-on legal work in the Environmental Law Clinic, and get involved with a variety of student environmental groups. Read more about these opportunities below.

For more guidance on the ENRLP Program, contact Molly Melius at loughney@stanford.edu or by phone: 650-725-4217.

Courses

View the 2025-2026 Curriculum Guide and Course Grids

Courses

Regular course offerings

*Offered Every Other Year

Current and recent electives

 

Designing Startups for Good (Tentative Spring 2025)

Problem Solving and Decision Making for Public Policy and Social Change (Autumn 2025)

Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives on Tort and Regulation (Spring 2025)

Transitioning to a Clean Energy Economy (Winter 2025)

Law and Governance in ESG Strategy (Spring 2025)

Environmental Justice in Indian Country (Spring 2024)

Environmental Justice Workshop (Winter 2023)

Food Law and Policy (Winter 2023)

Thinking in Systems (Autumn 2023)

Clean Energy Project Development and Finance

Climate Change Policy: Economic, Legal, and Political Analysis

Sustainable Energy: Business Opportunities and Public Policy Law

Current and past policy labs

 

Species & Ecosystem Preservation

Assessing Whether Fossil Fuel Companies Have Disseminated Disinformation (Autumn 2024)

Climate and Rural Health (Autumn 2024)

Building A Sustainable, Transparent, and Humane Food System (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)

Blue Foods for Indonesia: A Human & Planetary Health Action Lab (Winter 2024)

Nature-Based Climate Solutions Policy Lab (Spring 2024)

Hot Money: Toward Effective Climate Finance and Policy in Southeast Asia (Winter and Spring 2023)

Harvesting Climate Benefits from Agriculture and Forestry Practices (Winter and Spring 2023)

Integrating Water and Land Use Policy in the West: The Missing Link (Autumn 2022)

Buildings in the Energy Transition: resilient, clean and just (Autumn 2022, Winter 2023)

Suing to Stop Climate Change: Case Studies in International Climate Litigation

The Outlaw Ocean

Developing Best Practices for Clean Water Act Enforcement

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Joint Degrees

Students may take advantage of several exciting joint degree graduate programs in connection with the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER), Public Policy, International Relations, and the Business School.

Joint Environment and Resources Degrees : Joint Degrees

Masters of Law in Environment and Policy

The Master of Laws (LLM) in Environmental Law and Policy offers rigorous interdisciplinary training in environmental, energy and resource law and policy. This specialized program seeks to provide foreign lawyers with environmental legal and policy analysis expertise.

Read More : Masters of Law in Environment and Policy
Class of 2024 Diploma Ceremony