Environmental Law Institute
Description
The Environmental Law Institute is a nonprofit research, publishing and education center working to strengthen environmental law and governance.
Its audience includes government officials, business leaders, land managers, planners, environmentalists, journalists, law students and lawmakers. It drafts law and policy for governments, trains judges and other professionals, and publishes research on environmental and natural resource issues. It also convenes conferences and seminars that bring together people with differing views to work through environmental problems.
Since 1969 it has worked on environmental law and management both in the United States and abroad, including drafting ocean management rules and helping rebuild legal frameworks in other countries. It runs the Climate Judiciary Project, which trains state and federal judges on climate science and law. The institute is based in Washington, D.C., and is governed by a board of directors drawn from the environmental profession and related fields.
Support for the institute comes from individuals, foundations, government, corporations and law firms.
Latest news
Lunch Trays to Landfills: Reducing Food Waste in K–12 Schools
23 Sep 2026Freshwater and Marine Tenure 101: Who Gets to Use and Manage Water and Ocean Resources
9 Sep 2026Protecting the Right to Participate: Aarhus & Escazú
27 Aug 2026
12 Aug 2026
Similar organizations
World Resources Institute, known as WRI, is an independent research organization working to improve people's lives, protect and restore nature, and...
The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, known as CAPE, is a Canadian charitable organization that works to protect human health by...
Akdeniz Koruma Derneği, known in English as the Mediterranean Conservation Society, is a Turkish marine conservation organization.