Training

Environmental Law Clinic Workshop

The SPDA Environmental Law Clinic Workshop is a space where students can put into practice the knowledge and information learned in the conceptual phase of the Environmental Law Workshop (TDA).
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In February 2025, the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law launched the first edition of the SPDA Environmental Law Clinic Workshop, a space where students can put into practice the knowledge and information learned in the conceptual phase of the Environmental Law Workshop (TDA).

The Environmental Law Clinic Workshop was created with the aim of consolidating legal, strategic, ethical, and socio-emotional skills; improving the performance and legal skills of TDA graduates; instilling in new graduates an interest in causes of public and collective interest; building capacity to contribute to the high-impact litigation carried out by the SPDA; and transform traditional academic training into critical and situated legal practice.

About its methodology

The first edition of the SPDA’s Environmental Legal Clinic was designed as a progressive training process based on clinical methodology, experiential learning, and the strategic application of legal tools to real cases of environmental public interest.

To consolidate the clinical methodology, the SPDA’s Environmental Law Clinic Workshop incorporates the following clinical teaching approaches:

  • Interdisciplinary teamwork (law, environmental engineering, biology) to enrich case analysis.
  • Conducting mock hearings and presentations before teachers and peers.
  • Individualized counseling at critical moments in the development of cases.
  • Encouraging ethical reflection at the beginning and end of each session, connecting the technical with the legal, with transformative sensitivity.
  • Collaborative construction of case theory and legal strategy.
  • Partnerships with research centers in the country.

Initial results

During the first edition of the Environmental Law Clinic Workshop, 18 outstanding students from the 23rd Environmental Law Workshop developed legal strategies to address cases related to the construction of megaports, legal loopholes in pollution cases, and regulations that undermine environmental institutions, among other issues.

Facts

The Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA) is the first civil society organization in Peru to have an Environmental Law Clinic.