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The Institute for Legal Research (ILR) is an Organized Research Unit of the University of California, Berkeley, established by the UC Regents in 1967. The Institute's mission is to serve as a center for interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public service. The ILR has initiatives in the program areas of environmental law and policy and ocean law and policy, as well as others.

The Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics has a commitment to environmental studies on the UC Berkeley campus. They assist graduate training and scholarly research, bring together scholars, activists and policy makers for conversations on environmental issues, and bring other activists and policymakers to Berkeley as Residential Fellows.

An international consortium of scholars that has played a major part in studies of ocean law since the 1970s, the Law of the Sea Institute (LOSI) was transferred to the Institute for Legal Research (ILR) in April 2002 and is administered by Professors Harry Scheiber and David Caron as co-chairs. LOSI has published a distinguished series of conference proceedings on a range of subjects dealing with ocean policy and the law of the sea with assistance from university, foundation, and governmental sponsors.

The Environmental Law and Policy Program continues its sponsorship of a series of public lectures for 2004-2005. In each instance, the visiting speakers are in residence at Boalt Hall from three to five days, and have allocated significant office time during their stay to meet with students on an individual basis. Working in cooperation with the Environmental Law Society, a Boalt Hall student group, the Institute seeks to enrich the opportunities for students and others in the UC Berkeley community in the field of environmental law and policy.

The California Center for Environmental Law and Policy (CCELP) is a research center at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. CCELP’s mission is to foster interdisciplinary environmental law and policy research and to translate that research into pragmatic solutions.

The Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP) at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) aims to bridge the gap between environmental theory and policy implementation. It integrates interdisciplinary environmental theory and policy implementation through its seminars, workshops, and conferences. CEPP’s programs seek to educate, direct and motivate those in environmental public policy. In particular, CEPP activities are geared to help fill the local and global need for competent environmental managers who are adept at policy-making within the context of limited and varying resources.