Protecting human health, the environment

Ava Azad ensures environmental compliance, protection through role at EPA Ava Azad’s interest in the environmental field sparked while she was in high school. After earning an undergraduate degree in environmental studies from KU, she decided to continue her studies at KU Law in order to, “have the most impact within the environmental field.” “I saw that law and policy …

Centered on sustainability

KU Law faculty research addresses environmental concerns Sustainability is a global issue. As sustainability concerns and environmental threats occupy an ever-growing role in international affairs, KU Law faculty have placed an emphasis on scholarship, policy work and course offerings in this area. “We see sustainability as a core focus of our international and comparative law programs,” said Virginia Harper Ho, …

KU Law professor explores energy and the environment during Hawaii residency

A professor at the University of Kansas School of Law is digging in – sometimes literally – to the challenges of environmental protection during a teaching residency this summer. KU Law Professor Uma Outka is spending six weeks as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law in Honolulu. “This is a …

Crusading for the planet

3L takes on polluters, habitat destroyers through environmental law internship When people ask what kind of work I did this summer at Earthjustice, I tell them it was like being one of Captain Planet’s planeteers: battling villains that breathed smog, slung sludge and stomped on cute, defenseless endangered species. But unlike the cartoon, these problems didn’t resolve in 30 minutes. …