Center for Environmental Studies

The Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law & Business is a joint endeavor of the University of Texas School of Law and the McCombs School of Business. The KBH Center will achieve its mission by leveraging the resources and talents of the two schools and by collaborating with the many other schools, centers and areas of study that comprise the unparalleled collection of energy-related talent, expertise and knowledge at the University of Texas.

The Business and Environment Initiative educates, connects, and mobilizes business leaders to address climate change and other environmental challenges. BEI brings together more than 30 affiliated faculty members who collectively represent the School’s ten units. They catalyze research and share insights with business leaders. They encourage faculty and students to address climate change and environmental sustainability in MBA classrooms. They host academic and executive conferences and support student clubs and alumni connections on campus and beyond.

The Center for Climate, Energy, Environment and Economics (CE3) creates opportunities for law students to develop a deep understanding of environmental, energy and climate law beyond the classroom. CE3 sponsors a competitive scholarship program, offers students opportunities to assist with research and coauthor publications and supports experiential learning opportunities such as externships and energy and envrironmental moot court competitions. The center also works to inform public policy and private sector decision-making at the state and federal levels though nonpartisan, objective analysis. The center begins projects by engaging stakeholders in government, business and communities to identify pressing energy and environmental issues. CE3 then partners with students, Carolina Law faculty and scholars from other universities to provide analysis and identify innovative legal responses.

The SEARCH Center’s main objective is to investigate emerging energy transitions in the U.S. and resulting air pollution and health outcomes through state-of-the-science modeling and measurements to characterize factors contributing to emissions, air quality and health. We will estimate how these factors affect regional and local differences in air pollution and health today and under global change and will quantify the impacts of key modifiable factors on air quality and health and associated changes under current and future conditions. We hypothesize that pending U.S. energy transitions will profoundly impact air quality and health.

The Yale Center for Business and the Environment educates and inspires interdisciplinary leaders through business solutions to systemic environmental problems. CBEY engages in a wide range of activities to train business and environment leaders of tomorrow and address pressing global resource issues.

The Vanderbilt Energy, Environment and Land Use Program provides an extensive and rigorous curriculum and extracurricular opportunities  for students with an interest in practicing in these intersecting areas of the law. Environmental issues do not respect academic displinary boundaries, and the EELU program and its faculty are leaders in developing interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and researching energy, environmental and land use topics.