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Land Use Clinic
Law 119
Professor Michelle Bryan Mudd, Director
406.243.6753
michelle.bryanmudd@umontana.edu
Academic Year Only
Satisfies Environmental/Natural Resource Law Certificate Requirement
Special Land Use Clinic Requirements:
Grading: The credit/no credit option for grading is not available for the Land Use Clinic.
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| Clinic students meet in the field with Missoula County
planners and scientists to discuss resource protection
issues in the Crown of the Continent. |
Prerequisites:
- Professional Responsibility (effective for all classes entering Fall 2011 and thereafter)
- Land Use Planning Law.
- Introduction to Environmental Law, effective Fall 2012,
Areas of law: Land Use and Property Law; Environmental Law; Local Government Law; Constitutional Law
Lawyering skills: Regulatory drafting; Legal research and writing; Presenting to local governing bodies and other planning groups; Interacting with scientists, planners and other professionals
Sample Projects: Prepare a major report on protecting agricultural lands; Analyze wind farm development; Assist with wildland-urban interface regulations; Create a public brochure on nonconforming use laws; Draft zoning regulations that protect significant viewsheds and habitat areas; Draft written documents and make oral presentation to planners, scientists, local government officials, and the public.
The Land Use Clinic is an in-house clinic located in the new Clinic Wing of the Law School (Room119). As an intern in this Clinic, you will directly represent Montana local governments on land use matters significant to your community.
The Land Use Clinic’s projects vary from year to year, but recent projects have included: analyzing wind farm development, assisting with wildland-urban interface regulations, creating a public brochure on nonconforming use laws, and drafting zoning regulations that protect significant viewsheds and habitat areas. Each project provides the opportunity to not only draft written documents, but to orally present work to planners, scientists, local government officials, and the public.
The Land Use Clinic provides you with an opportunity to synthesize the various lawyering skills you have been developing in your law school courses. You will run meetings, draft memoranda, ordinances, and other legal documents, and present your work at client meetings and public hearings. At each stage of your work you will receive faculty mentoring and feedback, with the goal of providing you with a strong skill set to begin the practice of law.
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