International Pro Bono Committee

The mission of the International Pro Bono Committee is to (a) identify deserving non-US environmental groups underserved by the existing international environmental legal community, (b) develop relationships with the most appropriate representatives of those groups and (c) act as a clearing house by which Fellows of the College can individually provide pro bono services to those clients on specific projects identified as worthy of their efforts by the Committee.

Committee Projects

Africa Initiative

Leader: Virginia C. Robbins In 2016, ACOEL executed a Memorandum of Understanding with the African Wildlife Foundation to undertake wildlife and resource conservation work in Eastern, Central and Southern sub-Saharan Africa. In 2018, we were active in assisting the East African Wildlife Prosecutors’ Coalition in drafting a constitution and bylaws that would enable it to […]

Cuba Initiatives

Leader: David B. Farer On February 9 & 10, 2023, seven ACOEL Fellows participated in a symposium, in Havana, Cuba, jointly presented by ACOEL and the Foundation Antonio Nunez Jimenez of Nature and Humanity (FANJ), the Cuban NGO with which ACOEL entered an MOU in February 2019. The topic and title was: USA-Cuba Key Environmental […]

India Initiative

Leader: Tracy D. Hester ACOEL has been in discussions with retired Justice Swatanter Kumar, formerly of the India Supreme Court and the India Green Court. Justice Kumar spearheaded negotiations between the ACOEL and (a) the Indian Law Institute and (b) the India National Law University in Delhi to provide for ACOEL Fellow participation in appropriate […]

Waterkeeper Initiatives

Leader: James Arthur Bruen Waterkeeper Alliance is the umbrella organization for some 300 waterkeepers in the United States and abroad. The International Pro Bono Committee is the interface between Waterkeeper Alliance and international Waterkeeper projects around the globe. For 2021, those projects (to date) include opportunities to become strategic advisors to local Waterkeepers who oppose […]