#38 in 2025
We were #38 in environmental law in the U.S. News 2025 law school specialty rankings and were listed as a "leader in environmental law" in Pre-Law Magazine spring 2024 edition.
The urgency of climate change, rising sea levels, and pollution have placed the role of law and lawyers front and center in the struggle to protect our planet. As an environmental lawyer, you can work on legislating for environmental protection to representing cases relating to contaminated spaces and endangered species protection to reconciling the challenges between land development and water use and conservation.
Miami Law offers an extensive environmental law curriculum, an Environmental Law Program, and an Environmental Law Concentration next to the largest subtropical wetland ecosystem in North America. Our interdisciplinary offerings with the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and the Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy bridge the gap between science and the law. Whether your goal is to work in a law firm, as in-house counsel, in a government setting, or at a non-profit organization, nationally or globally, Miami Law will prepare you to be a leader in environmental law.
We were #38 in environmental law in the U.S. News 2025 law school specialty rankings and were listed as a "leader in environmental law" in Pre-Law Magazine spring 2024 edition.
$1 Million was award to Miami Law in 2022 to support Environmental Law programming, some of which includes Miami Law students attending United Nations International climate change conferences.
One of the most unique ecosystems in the world, we have the 3rd largest U.S. national park, and the largest mangrove ecosystem in Western Hemisphere - the Florida Everglades National Park, about 30 minutes from campus, and the only living tropical reef in the continental U.S.
*Course list is not exhaustive and does not set out a path of study.
Academic Programs and Concentrations
Clinics and Practicums
Joint Degrees
**List is not exhaustive and is intended to provide examples of past externships and internships.