[All] Fwd: The Osgoode Environmental Justice and Sustainability Clinic Planning Survey

[Carole Clinch]

see below - Osgoode Environmental Justice and Sustainability Clinic
Planning Survey

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From: rschleihauf at gmail.com via surveymonkey.com <member at surveymonkey.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:46 AM
Subject: The Osgoode Environmental Justice and Sustainability Clinic
Planning Survey
To: carole at gren.ca


Dear Carole & Grand River Environmental Network,

Re: Prospective Osgoode Environmental Justice and Sustainability Legal
Clinic

We are in the process of developing a student legal clinic at Osgoode Hall
Law School that would promote environmental justice and sustainability by
providing free legal services to clients of various kinds. Osgoode Hall Law
School is a pioneer and international leader in clinical legal education.
We expect that our proposed environmental clinic will create a strong
impact in the community, train the next generation of environmental
lawyers, and become a national leader in its field. If the clinic is
established, law students at Osgoode Hall Law School will work under the
supervision of a clinic lawyer who would oversee all their work and all
communication with clients.

We envisage that the clinic will have a dual mandate: to help redress past
and existing environmental injustices and unsustainable policies and
practices on the one hand, and, on the other hand, to help build innovative
legal foundations for a transition to a more just and sustainable future
by, for example, supporting novel forms of social enterprise and community
planning. It would work with individuals, organizations and government
partners (municipal, provincial and national) to advance environmental
justice and sustainability at local, regional and national scales. We want
to create a clinic that complements rather than competes with student
environmental law clinical programs at other Canadian law schools. Our
sense is that there is substantial unmet need for such initiatives and
plenty of room a new clinic.

As part of our preparations, we would like to get a sense of the nature and
degree of demand for such a student legal clinic among
sustainability-oriented organizations across Canada. Namely, what kinds of
legal services, if any, could you imagine yourselves seeking from a student
legal clinic focused on environmental justice and sustainability? Such
services would be provided free of charge to the clinic’s clients and might
include help with legal research; test case litigation; private
prosecutions; administrative tribunal proceedings; environmental assessment
hearings; public notice and comment processes; law reform proposals;
legislative committee submissions; legislative drafting; drafting contracts
or corporate documents; and public legal education and outreach.

Do you or your members have legal needs you think could, in principle, be
serviced by an environmental justice and sustainability law clinic? If so,
we would like to hear from you.

Please take a few minutes to complete the confidential online survey at the
following URL
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xLKVCRluNEaPqfiaAKmgLw_3d_3d

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We will keep your identity and responses strictly confidential and will not
share them with anyone outside our clinic team, except for aggregate data
and anonymized responses. Please also feel free to inform us of any other
organization that you think might be interested.

Thanks very much for your input to this exciting initiative.


Sincerely,

The Osgoode Environmental Justice and Sustainability Clinic planning team:

Stepan Wood (Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University)
David Estrin (Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP)
Dayna Scott (Association Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School and Faculty of
Environmental Studies, York University)
Patricia Wood (JD/MBA candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich
School of Business, York University)
Robyn Schleihauf (JD candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University)


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