Conservation Clinic
Costa Rica Study Abroad 2009
Project Spotlight
Green Building in the Green RepublicJune 14 - July 27, 2009
Detailed schedule (.pdf, 21KB)
A skills emphasis: Costa Rica offers a natural laboratory for environmental law and policy skills training. Law and graduate students develop their skills through case studies, comparative research, simulations, issue-based field trips and service to the environmental community.
A cross-cultural classroom: The Program works with the University of Costa Rica and environmental law institutions in Costa Rica and throughout Latin America to bring together attorneys, scientists and students from the region. Classes are in English.
Download a photo slideshow (.ppt, 10 MB)
News
- Former U.S. Senator and Florida Governor Bob Graham and Former Costa Rican Presidential Candidate and University of Florida Bacardi Eminent Scholar Otton Solis to lecture in Costa Rica Program.
- New Course Offering for 2009: Comparative Watershed Management: Law, Science & Policy (sneak preview, .ppt 2.1 MB)
- Amazonia Legal: The Program's Clinical Environmental Law Collaboration on Brazil's Deforestation Frontier