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Careers in Environmental Law

Careers in Environmental, Animal, and Energy Law

PEEL assists with student internships, externships, and post graduate employment. Our students work at a variety of employers including private sector, public sector, government, nonprofits, and NGOs. Check out our

PEEL student field placements include but are not limited to:

  • Animal Welfare Institute 
  • Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound
  • American Friends Service Committee
  • Ayuda
  • Bruckheim and Patel 
  • Center for Biological Diversity 
  • Center for International Environmental Law
  • Centre International du Droit Comparé de l'Environnement, an international NGO
  • Center for Water security and Cooperation
  • Commonwealth Attorney's Office of Prince William County
  • Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
  • D.C. Department of Energy and the Environment
  • D.C. Office of the People’s Counsel
  • DC Office of Administrative Hearing
  • DNC Office of Civic Engagement & Voter Protection
  • Don’t Cage Our Oceans
  • Earth Law Center
  • Earthrights International
  • EOP Council on Environmental Quality
  • Enchanted Rock LLC
  • Environmental Integrity Project
  • Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services 
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • Federal highway administration
  • Garn & Graber
  • Handler & Levine
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Kellog Hansen
  • International Corporate Accountability Roundtable
  • Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development 
  • Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
  • Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission
  • Maryland Public defender
  • Mil Mujeres
  • Navajo Nation Department of Justice
  • National Nuclear Security Administration
  • Native American Rights Fund
  • Natural Resources Defense Council
  • NOAA General Counsel
  • North Carolina Department of Justice, Environmental Division
  • Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings
  • O'Neill Institute of Global Health
  • Perkins Coie 
  • Pine Tree Legal Assistance - Indigenous Peoples Unit
  • Réseau Sortir du Nucléaire
  • Right to Democracy
  • Rolinski Law Group
  • Sandler, Travis, & Rosenberg
  • Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry Committee Majority Staff
  • Scenic America
  • Southern Environmental Law Center
  • The National Nuclear Security Administration
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • The Wilderness Society
  • U.S. Coast Guard JAG Office of Claims & Litigation 
  • United States Commission on Civil Rights
  • United States Department of Agriculture, OGC
  • United States Department of Energy
  • United States Department of Interior, Office of Solicitor, Division of Parks & Wildlife
  • United States Department of Justice, Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties
  • United States Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division
  • United States Environmental Protection Agency 
  • Virginia and Handler & Levine Law Firm
  • Walker Law LLC
  • Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law
  • World Wildlife Fund
  • White House Council on Environmental Equality