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| Friends of Land Air Water |
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| Friends of Land Air Water is a non-profit organization that cosponsors (along with the student group Land Air Water) the annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at University of Oregon School of Law in Eugene, Oregon. Friends of Land Air Water is composed of graduates of the University of Oregon School of Law who are now practicing environmental attorneys in Oregon. Many of the organization's board are former Land Air Water co-directors and PIELC co-directors. Because of their experience, they also provide Land Air Water with a wealth of historical information and institutional memory. |
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Friends of Land Air Water also operates an annual Public Interest Environmental Law Summer Stipend Program, which awards stipends to law students to work in public interest environmental law positions. Students receiving grants have worked for organizations all over the world, from as nearby as the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center in Williams OR, to Foundation La Era Agricola in Venezuela, and the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
Previous Stipend Recipients here. |
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| As announced at the 2007 PIELC, Friends of Land Air and Water has created a specific stipend in honor of Professors John Bonine and Mike Axline. This stipend is in line with their desire to promote certain types of public interest environmental law work and certain types of small private public-interest law firms. In order to qualify for this specific stipend the applicant's prospective employer must be one of the following:
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| 1. A private public-interest law firm with no more than 5 attorneys that does a significant amount of public interest environmental law work mainly on issues in the firm's surrounding local area; or
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| 2. A non-profit law firm with no more than 5 attorneys that does public interest environmental law work mainly on issues in the firm's surrounding local area; or,
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| 3. A non governmental organization that has a legal staff and no more than a total of 15 staff members in the organization and mainly works on issues in the organization's surrounding local area. |
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| There is no separate application process for the Axline-Bonine stipend. The FLAW Stipend committee uses the Axline-Bonine criteria listed above to evaluate the applications that are submitted via the normal FLAW stipend process and will award the Axline-Bonine stipend, if appropriate, to a qualifying application. |
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| Learn more about the stipends and review the guidelines here. |
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| Contact FLAW |
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