2004-2005
ELS OFFICERS
President:
Leila Amineddoleh
Programs Director:
Mandy DeRoche
Treasurer :
Andrew Vasicek
Career Development:
Jeffrey Perlman
Communications Director:
Nisha Talwar

Who are we?

The Boston College Environmental Law Society (ELS) is a community of students, faculty, alumni, and friends who share a social consciousness regarding important environmental issues. We offer a variety of unique opportunities for students to become informed and active in the pursuit of a better and healthier environment. In order to accomplish this, we organize an increasingly broad scope of activities which are fun, educational, and service-oriented.

Our goal is to offer members of the law school community opportunities to learn about environmental issues as well as how to utilize a legal education to make real contributions to the field of environmental law.

What do we do?

ELS sponsors a variety opportunities for students to learn about environmental issues and to become involved in educational and service-oriented activities. Students can testify at public hearings on environmental issues, work with the environmental justice organization based here at the law school, Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE), and/or do legal research for several non-profit environmental groups. ELS (along with help from professors and alumni) organizes a speaker panel in the fall and a six-week course in the spring. At these seminars, practitioners and academics, employed in all types of environmentally related legal professions, speak about their career paths as well as teach mini-seminars on related topics such as environmental law, land use, urban planning, and administrative law. Additionally, ELS sponsors activities such as fall foliage hikes, canoeing, clean-ups, Earth Day events, and the famous (or, infamous) Winter Weekend getaway at the Sargent Camp in Peterborough, NH.