HONORS CERTIFICATE IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND EARTH LAW

The Honors Certificate Program in Environmental and Earth Law offers students a practical and visionary curriculum that includes a diverse array of environmental courses, skills and experiential experiences, and rigorous writing opportunities.

To receive an Honors Certificate in Environmental and Earth Law, a student must register in the Certificate Program and complete the following requirements:

Three core courses;

Three approved electives;

A writing component through one of the following alternatives:

A paper satisfying the requirements of one of the approved electives;

Acceptance of an environmental article in The Barry Law Review or The Environmental and Earth Law Journal;

A Directed Research paper on an environmental topic; or

An Upper-Level Writing Requirement paper on an environmental topic;

At least 12 credit hours of core and elective courses;

Maintain a 2.5 average for the courses.

Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law is the only Dominican Law School in the United States and the first American Law School to be part of a university founded by religious women. The School of Law endeavours to offer a quality legal education in a caring environment with a religious dimension. Study and reflection lead to informed action, and a commitment to social justice lead to collaborative service. The School of Law promotes the highest standards of ethics and competence in the practice of law and other pursuits. The School of Law seeks to challenge students to embrace intellectual, personal, ethical, spiritual, ecological, and social responsibilities in an atmosphere of academic freedom. The program strives to equip its graduates to apply the knowledge, values, and skills they acquire to enhance personal growth, the legal profession, the judicial system, society, and the Earth community. Within its Catholic Dominican tradition, the School of Law values matters of faith through religious freedom. The School of Law seeks to enhance diversity in our community and the profession. It endorses recruitment and retention of members of underrepresented groups, particularly racial and ethnic minorities, to create a more diverse faculty, staff, and student body.

Skilled and dedicated to their calling, Barry Law faculty hold outstanding credentials in teaching, scholarship, and service. As former diplomats, negotiators, human rights advocates, scientists, and litigators, our faculty members bring a level of knowledge and commitment that can be gained only through experience. In turn, they pass this diverse training on to you, the law student.

Barry promotes and supports the intellectual life, emphasizing life-long learning, growth, and development. The University pursues scholarly and critical analysis of fundamental questions of the human experience. In the pursuit of truth, the University advances the development of solutions that promote the common good and a more humane and just society.