The new Wisconsin Initiative on Law and Climate Change (WILCC) seeks to respond to the legal challenges and social justice issues that come with climate change. WILCC aims to prepare law students for challenges posed by climate change and to foster related scholarship.
This initiative will provide an opportunity for UW Law to respond to what might be the greatest challenge of our time, one that could impact every facet of law.
WILCC is a joint initiative of the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Global Legal Studies Center and the Human Rights Program and is funded in part by the Laurie Carlson Progressive Ideas Forum.
Three Pillars of the Initiative
The Initiative will have three mutually reinforcing domains of work:
Education
Focus on training and curriculum to help prepare students for the challenges posed by climate change
Research
Foster innovative research on issues related to climate change and connect our faculty to other scholars who are working on climate change
Community
Interact with governmental, tribal, and non-governmental actors engaged in learning about and responding to climate change.
Events
Academic year 2022-23
Academic year 2024-25
Resources
Affiliated Scholars
Faculty, staff and students currently affiliated with WILCC include:
- Sumudu Atapattu
- Alexandra Huneeus
- Heinz Klug
- Richard Monette
- Steph Tai
- Tracey Holloway
- Jacob Breit
- Adrien Treves
- Mark Johnson
- Greta Nashold
- Jingyi Huang
- Alyson Fleming
- Ankur Desai
- Paul Kelleher
- Jeremy Foltz
- Shawn T. Kelly
- Michel Wattiaux
- Sheldon Du
- Michael Notaro
- Drashti Amin
- Nathan Jandl
- Ryder Belgrade
- Jaime Garibay-Rodriguez
- Jake Erickson
- Kyla Smith
- Aja Watkins
- Jenna Greene
If you are interested in joining the Initiative or learning more, please contact Sumudu Atapattu (sumudu.atapattu@wisc.edu)
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