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MELP and LLM Internships
An integral part of the MELP program and the joint degree program is gaining real world experience through internships. Our students explore environmental law, science, and policy in a wide variety of settings both locally and worldwide. Activities may include counseling, drafting regulations and legislation, preparing legal memoranda, drafting or commenting on environmental or land use plans, and fieldwork related to wetlands, endangered species, and other natural resource management and preservation issues.
Download the MELP/LLM Internship Handbook. (.pdf)
Download the MELP/LLM Internship Registration Form. (.pdf)
Download a sample internship contract. (.doc)
Recent master’s degree students earned credit while working as interns for the following organizations:
- Natural Resources Conservation Authority, Jamaica, West Indies
- Fund for International Environmental Law and Development, London, England
- Biodiversity Group of Environment Australia, Canberra, Australia
- Environmental Enforcement Section, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
- National Park Service, Boulder, Colorado
- National Marine Fisheries Service, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
- Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Juneau, Alaska
- Kentucky Department of Planning and Environmental Management, Louisville, Kentucky
- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Boston, Massachusetts
- Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Waterbury, Vermont
- Environmental Defense Fund, Boulder, Colorado
- National Wildlife Federation, Boulder, Colorado
- Native Lands Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- American Wildlands, Bozeman, Montana
- Law Firm of Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green, Manchester, New Hampshire
Students interested in First Nations environmental law might pursue internships at intertribal organizations such as the National Tribal Environmental Council or the National Congress of American Indians.
Students design their own MELP internships with the advice and consent of a faculty member. A typical internship earns between two and nine credits. Each internship is carefully defined in a contract with the sponsoring organization. Contracts are drafted by the student in accordance with the guidelines for MELP Internships in the Academic Regulations. Internship contracts must meet the approval of the Internship Director of the Environmental Law Center and the faculty member supervising the internship.
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