Conservation Clinic
Costa Rica Study Abroad 2012
June 10 - July 9, 2012
2012 schedule [141 kb PDF]
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.
Click here to view a photo slideshow from the 2011 Study Abroad Program.
News
- New international collaborations: Interdisciplinary workgroup on water sustainability in the Tempisque Basin, NW Costa Rica
- CAFTA-DR Environmental Secretariat publishes Program clinic's citizen's guide to environmental submission process
- Program catalyzes new environmental law clinics in Latin America