Environmental Advocacy Clinic
Environmental Advocacy Clinic Director Kim Diana Connolly with her students.
The Environmental Advocacy Clinic focuses on state, national, and international environmental policy issues that have direct impact on Western New York as well as national and international implications.
The Environmental Advocacy Clinic is four-credit clinic (for returning students, a different credit hour allocation can be requested). The EAC works on state, national, and international environmental law and policy issues that have direct impact on Western New York, as well as national and international implications.
The work is exciting and challenging. Student attorneys work on issues such as legal aspects on the first North American transboundary designation of a wetland of international importance, and development and implementation of local sustainable and regenerative laws. Under the supervision of Professor Connolly, student attorneys coordinate directly clients and other stakeholders.
Kim Diana Connolly
Director of Environmental Advocacy Clinic
Clinical Legal Education
Water Equity and Environmental Justice
Buffalo is the nation’s third poorest city, and that means paying water bills can sometimes make it hard for families to afford food and other necessities. Clinic student attorneys are taking part in an overdue effort to help the City of Buffalo’s water system rates become more equitable and inclusive for its residents.
This new research to develop policies that will help everyday people of Western New York builds on the clinic’s history of providing legal and policy support to ensure that water and housing is free from lead poisoning and other environmental justice issues, such as the work presented in A Neighborhood’s Continuing Evolution - An Environmental Justice Walking Tour of Buffalo, NY’s West Side.