ELAW Fellows Program

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The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide has hosted nearly 300 environmental professionals from all over the world. ELAW Fellows are committed advocates who help the world’s most disadvantaged communities protect the environment through law.

ELAW Fellows have gone on to do outstanding work and become respected leaders. Seven ELAW Fellows later won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, including 2016 Goldman Prize winner Zuzana Caputova. Ms. Caputova was a 2007 and 2017 ELAW Fellow and elected President of Slovakia in 2019.

ELAW designs each Fellowship to meet the Fellow’s needs. We provide one-on-one training with ELAW attorneys, scientists, and development team members, and reach out to other experts in the U.S. and around the world to help ELAW Fellows meet their training objectives.

ELAW Fellowships may include the following, and more:

• One-on-one work with the ELAW team
• ELAW Annual Meeting and Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
• Collaborating with organizations in the Pacific Northwest
• Meeting with government agencies, and attending court and public hearings
• Tours of water and waste management facilities, and visits to protected areas
• Intensive English study at the University of Oregon’s American English Institute
• Environmental law and other classes at the University of Oregon
• Public presentations and press interviews

ELAW Fellows gain skills and build strong organizations that will work to protect communities and the planet for years to come. ELAW Fellows also enrich the Eugene community and share lessons learned from their environmental challenges and successes.